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   On 05 Jun 2023, bruce bowser  posted some   
   news:3079c672-e91d-4483-a11b-79105deadcc9n@googlegroups.com:   
      
   > Your blue state Democrat ethics on display.   
      
   A couple accused of abandoning nearly 200 bodies at the Colorado funeral   
   home they owned allegedly used payments for cremations and burials for   
   vehicles, cryptocurrency, a $1,500 dinner in Las Vegas and other personal   
   items.   
      
   FBI Agent Andrew Cohen testified in front of a packed courtroom Thursday   
   that Jon and Carie Hallford bought a GMC Yukon and an Infiniti for more   
   than $120,000 with payments from families of the deceased, according to   
   The Associated Press. The money was reportedly enough to cover cremation   
   costs for two times the bodies found decomposing in their business'   
   storage facility in Penrose.   
      
   Adam Steigerwald, Jon's lawyer, argued that the prosecution has not proven   
   the money from their business account was spent to conceal the source of   
   the funds, meaning it does not fit the crime of money laundering. He also   
   said the couple used money from the federal Small Business Administration   
   to buy the Yukon.   
      
   Cohen said the money – which they received as an adjustment to a pandemic-   
   era small business loan – used to buy the Yukon was obtained fraudulently   
   after Jon lied and said he was not behind on child support payments.   
      
   COLORADO FUNERAL HOME OWNERS FACE CHARGES AFTER DISCOVERY OF 190   
   DECOMPOSING BODIES   
      
   The testimony about the couple's spending practices came during a hearing   
   where a judge decided prosecutors presented enough evidence to show Jon   
   should stand trial. It was previously decided Carie will also stand trial.   
      
   Both Jon and Carie were arrested in Oklahoma in November after each being   
   charged with 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, five counts of theft, four   
   counts of money laundering and over 50 counts of forgery. Neither one of   
   them has entered a plea yet.   
      
   COLORADO FUNERAL HOME OWNER WHO ALLEGEDLY LEFT ALMOST 200 BODIES TO ROT   
   WILL APPEAR IN COURT   
      
   During an earlier hearing for Carie, text messages were presented by   
   prosecutors that suggested the Hallfords tried to cover up their financial   
   struggles by leaving the bodies at the Penrose facility.   
      
   Cohen testified that the storage facility had makeshift refrigeration   
   units that were not in use when the decaying bodies were discovered inside   
   the maggot-infested building.   
      
   According to prosecutors, Jon was concerned about getting caught as far   
   back as 2020 and suggested they dump the bodies in a big hole before   
   treating them with lye or setting them on fire.   
      
   "My one and only focus is keeping us out of jail," he wrote in one text   
   message, prosecutors alleged.   
      
   Jon is out of jail after posting a $100,000 bond in late January while   
   Carie remains in jail on the same amount.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-funeral-home-owners-abandoned-bodies-   
   spent-cremation-burial-money-vehicles-1500-dinner   
      
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