A sentence of five years imprisonment with a 20-month non-parole period is within the permissible range for Commonwealth fraud of approximately $407,000 over 15 years involving premeditation, use of false identities, and motivation by greed, notwithstanding full restitution, advanced age, ill health, and absence of prior criminal history. Prosecutors may continue to supply comparable sentencing decisions and make submissions about similarities and differences between those cases and the case at hand without contravening Barbaro.
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