A combined discount of 40 per cent for an early guilty plea and assistance to authorities is well within the appropriate range for serious fraud offences. An effective non-parole period of 18 months for 40 offences of obtaining property by deception totalling nearly $270,000 approaches manifest inadequacy rather than manifest excessiveness.
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