Overview

• Judge Nina Wang imposed the maximum 20-year term after Hallford pleaded guilty last year to federal conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
• Federal agents discovered around 190 decomposing bodies stacked in a bug-infested Penrose facility and concrete dust given to families instead of ashes.
• Prosecutors detailed how Hallford and co-owner Carie Hallford siphoned about $900,000 in SBA COVID-19 relief and client payments for luxury vehicles, designer goods and cosmetic procedures.
• Hallford is due for state sentencing in August on 191 counts of corpse abuse following his state court guilty plea.
• Carie Hallford withdrew her federal plea this year and is set to stand trial in September on both federal fraud and state corpse abuse charges.