SPRINGFIELD — A contractor in Berkshire County is repaying the IRS hundreds of thousands of dollars after he pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Dennis Condron, who owns D Condron Construction, allegedly cashed customer checks into his personal bank account and then did not report the funds to his tax preparer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building admitted in federal court Monday that she cheated customers and defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,

Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection to her operation of the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose, Colorado. The facility was found to have nearly 200 bodies improperly stored.

The co-owner of a funeral home in Penrose pleaded guilty in court Monday to a federal felony wire fraud charge, marking her second change of plea in the case.

Carrie Hallford, co-owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, has changed her plea in federal court, pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In her plea agreement with the federal government,

Carie Hallford has reversed her plea in the federal case against her and husband Jon and now potentially faces more than a decade in prison on financial crimes.

Carie Hallford, co-owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home, is expected to plead guilty to federal charges today, just weeks after her husband, Jon Hallford, received a maximum 20-year federal prison sentence.