DENVER — One of the co-owners of a funeral home in Penrose accused of misspending nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds will spend 20 years in prison, a federal district judge in Denver ruled Friday.
Jon Hallford was charged with 15 federal offenses related to defrauding both the U.S. government and customers of the Return to Nature funeral home in April of last year.
The 240-month prison sentence handed down by Judge Nina Wang will run concurrently and Hallford will then be under supervised release of 3 years…