[FoxNews] Jon and Carie Hallford of the Return to Nature Funeral Home could face up to 20 years in prison
The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling hundreds of bodies in room-temperature conditions inside a dilapidated building and giving loved ones concrete instead of ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse.
Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday.
"The bodies were [lying] on the ground, stacked on shelves, left on gurneys, stacked on top of each other or just piled in rooms," prosecutor Rachael Powell said in court.
Their loved ones are "intensely and forever outraged," she added. Some of the families were in the courtroom when they pleaded guilty.
Crystina Page, whose son died in 2019, said outside the courtroom on Friday: "He laid in the corner of an inoperable fridge, dumped out of his body bag with rats and maggots eating his face for four years. Now every moment that I think of my son, I’m having to think of Jon and Carie, and that’s not going away."
The Hallfords also faced charges of theft, money laundering and forgery, which were dismissed with their plea deals.
The couple spent $882,300 in COVID relief funds on things like vacations, cosmetic surgery, car and tuition for their child.
Jon Hallford could serve 20 years in prison under the plea deal and Carie Hallford could serve 15 to 20 years.
Six people who objected to the plea deals, calling their recommended sentences insufficient, will get a chance to speak before they’re sentenced in April.
If the judge rejects the plea deal, the case may still go to trial.
The Hallfords already pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October in connection with their misuse of funds.
The accusations go back to 2019 and the improperly stored bodies were discovered after neighbors reported a stench coming from the building.
Authorities in hazmat gear found bodies stacked on top of each other, some so decayed they couldn’t be identified, and the place was infested with bugs.
Following the gruesome discovery, Colorado has tightened funeral home regulations.
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Since each Desecration of a Corpse was an individual crime.
Plus, each case also involved Felony Fraud also.
But this is Colorado.
Likely they'll get an award for champions of the Colorado Clean Air Act and avoiding Carbon Admissions by not using the crematory.
[IsraelTimes] US President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... names billionaire Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, choosing the hedge fund manager to help execute an agenda promising tax cuts and tariffs.
Bessent, who is chief executive officer of Key Square Group, has called for an extension of tax cuts from Trump’s first term, wants to reassert American energy dominance, and believes it is necessary to deal with the budget deficit.
"Scott is widely respected as one of the world’s foremost international investors and geopolitical and economic strategists," Trump says in a statement.
"He will help me usher in a new Golden Age for the United States, as we fortify our position as the world’s leading economy," he says, adding Bessent will also help "reinvigorate the private sector, and help curb the unsustainable path of federal debt."
The nomination of Bessent — who recently served as an economic advisor to Trump — will put him at the forefront of rolling out the president-elect’s economic plan, from seeing tax cuts through Congress to managing ties with countries like China.
The position carries influence over both domestic and international policy.
Bessent, who is from South Carolina, attended Yale University and served as chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management, the macroeconomic investment firm of billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... In 2015, he raised capital, including $2 billion from Soros, to start his own hedge fund.
[Townhall] It’s been another crazy night of Trump nominations, with Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) and Scott Bessent being tapped to lead the Department of Labor and the Treasury Department, respectively. Bessent’s nomination rounds out the Big Four of the Trump administration—attorney general, defense secretary, treasury, and secretary of state—but Ms. Chavez DeRemer might have some trouble due to her support of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
Still, that didn’t stop the president-elect from naming people to helm the Food and Drug Administration, Housing and Urban Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of Management and Budget tonight. Mr. Trump also named who he wants to be surgeon general:
Herewith the list. Details at the link.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general
Dr. Dave Weldon to head the CDC
Marty Makary for the FDA
Scott Turner at HUD
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Sebastian Gorka as senior White House advisor for counterterrorism
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] One of the most powerful shock waves in history that reached Earth from space was recorded by British astronomers. The corresponding article about the study was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
According to scientists, the collision occurred in a group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet, located 290 million light years from Earth.
Marina Arnaudova, an astrophysicist from the British University of Hertfordshire, clarified that the galaxy NGC 7318b crashed into a debris field and compressed plasma and gas.
"The intruder reactivated the plasma, causing it to glow brightly at radio frequencies and likely triggered the star formation process," she added.
The event, scientists say, is a "rare chance" for humanity to see a complex combination of colliding galaxies. It could provide valuable insights into how visible galaxies form.
As reported by IA Regnum, on October 31, the European Southern Observatory presented an image of a nebula called the "Dark Wolf Nebula" because its silhouette resembles the figure of a predator. Scientists discovered it in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula is located approximately 5,300 light years from Earth.
Earlier, NASA's James Webb telescope captured two galaxies, NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, which together formed a figure resembling a penguin with an egg. It was noted that the "egg" and "penguin" have been approaching each other for tens of millions of years and will eventually merge into one galaxy.
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It was noted that the "egg" and "penguin" have been approaching each other for tens of millions of years and will eventually merge into one galaxy.
Great. Not only do we have to deal with globalists, we now have to consider or deal with merging galaxies and one or more universes. Universalists? The New Galaxies Order?
How long ago did the the illuminating light originate from space that allowed this observation? Has the show ended long ago? My frail brain never really did grasp astrophysics.
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[FoxNews] Jon and Carie Hallford of the Return to Nature Funeral Home could face up to 20 years in prison
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
[Regnum] One of the most powerful shock waves in history that reached Earth from space was recorded by British astronomers. The corresponding article about the study was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
