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one-year deferred sentence, charged $ 26,999.97 in restitution, and made to perform 40 hours of community service. "An investigative report by The Denver Post in 2017 found that the charity, which Baron founded in 2015, struggled with delays in promised aid to refugees. The newspaper found that more than 100 refugees who had been promised aid from
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