According to government prosecutors, during 2008 and 2009, a number of conspirators suppressed and restrained competition by rigging bids to obtain selected real estate offered at San Joaquin County, California public real estate auctions.

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She had trekked to New Mexico by way of theSouth and was on her way back home, to California's San Joaquin Valley, where she was the chief librarian for Kern County.

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The fastest road near an urban area is California Route 73, a six-lane freeway in Orange County that connects Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano through the San Joaquin Hills.

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