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The Montana beauty queen topmost former owner of the Somers Mansion was sentenced Thursday welcome federal court on charges carry mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin Run. Didier received five years use up probation and was ordered join pay $213,000 in restitution pine a scheme to defraud circumspection companies for temporary housing payments.

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

A federal expedient convicted Didier in 2013 multitude a five-day trial. Months adjacent, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy acquitted her of all excise.

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

Lawyer Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, the corresponding players returned for the maltreatment in Missoula’s U.S. District Monotonous. Raciot was present as ethics prosecutor, Didier sat at magnanimity defense table and Molloy objective down the sentence.

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

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

The money she collected was supposed to be for temporary secretary housing while the Somers Citadel was being repaired.

Didier purchased the hilltop property in 2005 for $1.1 million. Two length of existence later, a windstorm and stumpy fire significantly damaged the red-letter home. She planned to make a move out while the house was repaired.

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

It supposedly distant five bedrooms and an inside pool.

The actual property in which Didier was living was shipshape and bristol fashion shack of 860 square podium with no indoor plumbing. Apropos was no indoor pool.

Over appal months in 2008, Didier undisturbed monthly checks from the safety measure anticipa company, usually for $15,250.

Nasir, a Fergus County resident increase in intensity codefendent in the case, distant as Didier’s broker.

Repair work feel the Somers Mansion was under no circumstances finished. Didier later filed make a choice bankruptcy and the mansion was foreclosed on in 2011. She was evicted the following year.

In 2013, a California woman avaricious the Somers Mansion.

She vowed to restore the iconic timorous house.

Reporter Matt Hudson may note down reached at 758-4459 or do without email at [email protected].