A Kansas woman faces just over a year in prison for conspiring with her husband, a bank president, in a scheme to make him appear to be indigent in order to keep the federal government from taking his assets in a bank fraud case.  But she’ll get to keep the luxury sailboat she and her husband had planned to use to flee the country.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 47-year-old Brenda Becker of Meriden will forfeit interest in property the couple owns in Jefferson County, and the government will drop its claims to the catamaran.

Her husband, former bank president Scott Becker, is serving six years in federal prison for his conviction in the case.

The list of concealed assets is staggering.  Federal prosecutors say the pair created a fictitious mortgage falsely claiming that she had loaned him more than $1 million. They sold more than $422,000 worth of property in Finney County, Kan., liquidated a firearms collection for more than $425,000 and sold mineral rights in Finney County for more than $78,000.   They purchased a 1997 Jeantot Marine 42-foot Privilege Catamaran yacht which they renamed “Pearls and Boots.” They purchased a corporation in Panama for the purpose of liquidating and transferring assets, and they formed a Nevada corporation, Mt. Bethel Enterprises, LLC, to act as a holding company where they could park real estate and personal property until it could be sold and the proceeds moved offshore.