White supremacist gets 40 years in suburban Phoenix bombing

[struggle4progress]

Source: USA Today

PHOENIX (AP) – A white supremacist has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.

A jury earlier found 61-year-old Dennis Mahon guilty of three federal charges stemming from the package bomb that injured Don Logan, who is black and was Scottsdale's diversity director at the time.

Jurors stopped short of finding Mahon guilty of a hate crime after a six-week trial that included dramatic testimony from Logan and a government informant dubbed a "trailer park Mata Hari" by defense attorneys.

U.S. District Judge David Campbell says the bombing was "an act of domestic terrorism." ...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-05-22/white-supremacist-scottsdale-bombing/55143058/1

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[onehandle]

1. Gun show circuit freak who knew Timothy McVeigh. This is what gun shows produce.

Domestic terrorists.

[struggle4progress]

3. +

[Meiko]

4. Gun shows produce terrorists?

Let me write this one down so I don't forget it.

[kestrel91316]

2. I wish he had to serve his 40 years in Arpaio's Tent City.

[Swede Atlanta]

5. Good........

I hope there is no possibility of parole.