The owner of Boulder dance studio Frequency Dance was accused of staging two break-ins, creating a fake business and lying to her insurance company to get more than $567,000 in payouts, according to an unsealed Colorado state grand jury indictment.
Cindy Burdine, 50, was indicted by a grand jury on March 27, according to online Boulder County District Court records. The unsealed indictment accuses Burdine of staging a break-in at the dance studio in April 2023, then lying to her insurance company that the dance studio had to cancel classes and performances, thereby losing income. In July 2023, Burdine reportedly hired two men to stage a break-in at the dance studio, then named Kinesis Dance, and estimated the damages to be $100,000.
Burdine, a Thornton resident, reportedly then created a fake business called “Revolution Dance Sport,” created a website for it and enlisted someone to pose as a representative for the business to speak with her insurance company, according to the indictment. That fake business, alongside fraudulent bills from real dance studios, was used to show that Kinesis was losing income after the break-in, the indictment states…