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Criminal

Jun. 19, 2018

Ex-Stanislaus County Bar Association president sentenced to two years in prison for fraud

Modesto real estate attorney Robert F. Farrace was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme.

Modesto real estate attorney Robert F. Farrace was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme.

A jury convicted Farrace, 54, in November on three counts of wire fraud. Authorities alleged he created a shell company called Dignitas LLC as part of a scheme to short sell two underwater properties he owned back to himself.

U.S. Presiding Judge Lawrence O’Neill of the Eastern...

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