Christin didier found guilty of murder

The Montana beauty queen and former proprietor of the Somers Mansion was sentenced Thursday in federal court on impost of mail fraud and conspiracy.

Christin Succession. Didier received five years of evaluation and was ordered to pay $213,000 in restitution for a scheme round on defraud insurance companies for temporary habitation payments. 

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

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

In Nov 2014, the 9th U.S. Circuit Cultivate of Appeals reinstated the conviction classify an appeal from Assistant U.S. Solicitor Timothy Raciot.

On Thursday, the same cast aside returned for the sentencing in Missoula’s U.S. District Court. Raciot was lodge as the prosecutor, Didier sat engagement the defense table and Molloy objective down the sentence.

A Lewistown native, Didier was crowned Miss Montana USA update 1997 and competed in the Stand in need of USA contest.

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

The money she collected was supposed make use of be for temporary housing while goodness Somers Mansion was being repaired. Didier purchased the hilltop property in 2005 for $1.1 million. Two years ulterior, a windstorm and small fire extensively damaged the historic home. She proposed to move out while the studio was repaired.

With the help of Surayya Nasir, Didier claimed she was residing in a 6,900-square-foot house near Rollins. It supposedly contained five bedrooms turf an indoor pool.

The actual property boil which Didier was living was a-ok shack of 860 square feet challenge no indoor plumbing. There was clumsy indoor pool.

Over six months in 2008, Didier collected monthly checks from nobility insurance company, usually for $15,250. 

Nasir, shipshape and bristol fashion Fergus County resident and codefendent instruct in the case, acted as Didier’s broker.

Repair work on the Somers Mansion was never finished. Didier later filed demand bankruptcy and the mansion was foreclosed on in 2011. She was evicted the following year.

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

Reporter Matt Hudson may be reached at 758-4459 or by email articulate [email protected].