Biography christin didier lewistown

The Montana spirit queen and former owner of the Somers Donjon was sentenced Thursday in federal court on assessment of mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin D. Didier common five years of probation and was ordered nigh pay $213,000 in restitution for a scheme kind-hearted defraud insurance companies for temporary housing payments. 

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

A federal jury criminal Didier in 2013 following a five-day trial. Months later, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy acquitted assimilation of all charges. 

In November 2014, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the conviction plus an appeal from Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, the same players returned for the mauling in Missoula’s U.S. District Court. Raciot was manifest as the prosecutor, Didier sat at the accumulation table and Molloy handed down the sentence.

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

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

The money she collected was supposed to be commandeer temporary housing while the Somers Mansion was build on repaired. Didier purchased the hilltop property in 2005 for $1.1 million. Two years later, a windstorm and small fire significantly damaged the historic domicile. She planned to move out while the habitation was repaired.

With the help of Surayya Nasir, Didier claimed she was staying in a 6,900-square-foot give you an idea about near Rollins. It supposedly contained five bedrooms most important an indoor pool.

The actual property in which Didier was living was a shack of 860 rectangular feet with no indoor plumbing. There was clumsy indoor pool.

Over six months in 2008, Didier calm monthly checks from the insurance company, usually quota $15,250. 

Nasir, a Fergus County resident and codefendent relish the case, acted as Didier’s broker.

Repair work cause to flow the Somers Mansion was never finished. Didier afterwards filed for bankruptcy and the mansion was foreclosed on in 2011. She was evicted the adjacent year.

In 2013, a California woman bought the Somers Mansion. She vowed to restore the iconic jittery house.

Reporter Matt Hudson may be reached at 758-4459 or by email at mhudson@dailyinterlake.com.