Kouri Richins’ Restitution Bill Says WHAT?!

On August 28, Kouri Richins learned the price tag on what she did. A judge set restitution at $1,369,581 — split between Auto Owner’s Insurance and TruStage, the two companies that paid out on the life insurance policies she cashed in after poisoning her husband Eric with fentanyl. Her lawyer accepted the figure without argument. The stay request was denied.

Forensic accountant Brooke Karrington mapped the path of that money at trial. Kouri took in $1.35 million. Ninety days later, it was gone. She owed $7.5 million. Four payday lenders were pulling $2,100 from her daily. Her real estate company’s revenue couldn’t cover a third of its monthly obligations. By September 2022, her balance was $800.

The court already declared her indigent. Her defense was taxpayer-funded. Her appeal is taxpayer-funded. At Utah’s top prison wage of $1.75 an hour, clearing the restitution would require 376 years of work.

And restitution is just the first line on the ledger. Twenty-six felony fraud charges remain active in a separate Summit County case — five mortgage fraud counts, seven money laundering counts, forgery, bad checks, and a pattern-of-unlawful-activity charge connecting the financial crimes to the killing itself. October 9 brings the scheduling conference that sets the second trial in motion.

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