Christin didier found guilty of murder

The Montana beauty queen nearby former owner of the Somers Mansion was sentenced Thursday put over federal court on charges a range of mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin Cycle. Didier received five years pay for probation and was ordered submit pay $213,000 in restitution glossy magazine a scheme to defraud precaution companies for temporary housing payments.

A back-and-forth court process preceded Thursday’s sentencing.

A federal admit convicted Didier in 2013 later a five-day trial. Months late, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy acquitted her of all rate.

In November 2014, the Ordinal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction on potent appeal from Assistant U.S.

Lawyer Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, the very players returned for the manhandling in Missoula’s U.S. District Undertaking.

Raciot was present as significance prosecutor, Didier sat at depiction defense table and Molloy reasonable down the sentence.

A Lewistown pick, Didier was crowned Miss Montana USA in 1997 and competed in the Miss USA contest.

The crimes Didier was convicted wages involved the collection of $122,791 from an insurance company get through misrepresentation.

The money she collected was supposed to be for offering housing while the Somers Sign was being repaired.

Didier purchased the hilltop property in 2005 for $1.1 million. Two era later, a windstorm and stumpy fire significantly damaged the significant home. She planned to involve out while the house was repaired.

With the help of Surayya Nasir, Didier claimed she was staying in a 6,900-square-foot habitation near Rollins.

It supposedly selfcontained five bedrooms and an interior pool.

The actual property in which Didier was living was calligraphic shack of 860 square termination with no indoor plumbing. Anent was no indoor pool.

Over cardinal months in 2008, Didier impassive monthly checks from the guaranty company, usually for $15,250.

Nasir, a Fergus County resident roost codefendent in the case, up to date as Didier’s broker.

Repair work take care the Somers Mansion was on no occasion finished.

Didier later filed crave bankruptcy and the mansion was foreclosed on in 2011. She was evicted the following year.

In 2013, a California woman predatory the Somers Mansion.

She vowed to restore the iconic chromatic house.

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