US EditionOwners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud
- A Colorado funeral home couple misused nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds, facing over 200 criminal counts for body mishandling and money laundering.
- The couple spent relief funds on personal luxuries like vacations, cosmetic surgery, jewelry, and dinners, rather than on intended expenses.
- The Hallfords are indicted with federal charges carrying possible penalties of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines for their actions.
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Return to Nature Funeral Home owners now face federal charges
Return to Nature owners Jon and Carie Hallford were booked back into the El Paso County jail Sunday afternoon, this time facing federal fraud charges stemming from the discovery of nearly 200 bodies decomposing inside a funeral home the couple…
Return to Nature Funeral Home owners accused of $880K in COVID relief fraud
The owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Pensose were arrested Sunday on 15 new federal charges of wire fraud and aiding and abetting, including fraudulently obtaining more than $880,000 COVID relief funds. According to an indictment provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday, from about September 2019 and continuing until about Oct. 5, 2023, Carie Hallford, 46, and her husband, Jon Hallford, 43, “devised and intended to…
Colorado funeral home operators charged with mishandling corpses now accused of $880K in COVID relief fraud
A Colorado couple accused of allowing nearly 200 corpses to decay in a building connected to their funeral home have been indicted on federal charges of fraudulently obtaining a total of $882,300 in pandemic relief funds. An indictment filed last week in U.S. District Court in Denver said Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford, who own the shuttered Colorado Springs-based Return to Nature Funeral Home, submitted false information to the U.S. Small Busi…
Colorado funeral home owners found with nearly 200 decomposing bodies, charged with COVID fraud
A couple who owned a Colorado funeral home faces fraud charges among other things, after allegedly spending over $880,000 in COVID relief funds on vacations and luxury items
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Owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 decaying bodies were found are charged with COVID fraud
Federal authorities have indicted the owners of a Colorado funeral home on criminal charges for fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government. The husband and wife already face
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