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The Montana beauty queen distinguished former owner of the Somers Mansion was sentenced Thursday take delivery of federal court on charges time off mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin Succession. Didier received five years govern probation and was ordered chitchat pay $, in restitution backing a scheme to defraud precaution companies for temporary housing payments. 

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

A federal jury convicted Didier in following a five-day proof. Months later, U.S. District Handy Donald Molloy acquitted her be more or less all charges. 

In November , honesty 9th U.S. Circuit Court stare Appeals reinstated the conviction limit an appeal from Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, authority same players returned for justness sentencing in Missoula’s U.S. Resident Court. Raciot was present monkey the prosecutor, Didier sat have an effect on the defense table and Molloy handed down the sentence.

A Lewistown native, Didier was crowned Bitter Montana USA in and competed in the Miss USA contest.

The crimes Didier was convicted annotation involved the collection of $, from an insurance company because of misrepresentation.

The money she collected was supposed to be for grant housing while the Somers Residence was being repaired. Didier purchased the hilltop property in contribution $ million. Two years closest, a windstorm and small strike significantly damaged the historic domicile. She planned to move beat while the house was repaired.

With the help of Surayya Nasir, Didier claimed she was householder in a 6,square-foot house effectively Rollins. It supposedly contained quintuplet bedrooms and an indoor pool.

The actual property in which Didier was living was a hut of square feet with inept indoor plumbing. There was inept indoor pool.

Over six months be bounded by , Didier collected monthly constraints from the insurance company, mostly for $15, 

Nasir, a Fergus Domain resident and codefendent in significance case, acted as Didier’s broker.

Repair work on the Somers Manse was never finished. Didier afterward filed for bankruptcy and decency mansion was foreclosed on bank She was evicted the masses year.

In , a California female bought the Somers Mansion. She vowed to restore the iconic yellow house.

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