- PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The
ringleader of a skinhead gang was sentenced to nearly three years in prison
Monday for burning crosses at a Jewish cemetery and spray-painting racist
graffiti on a Korean church.
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- Brian Raymond Hauth, 27, who lives in Montana, pleaded
guilty last summer to civil rights and conspiracy charges.
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- According to the FBI, Hauth was the "commander"
of a teen hate group called the Oregon State Boot Boys. Prosecutors said
he and other boys took part in the vandalism in 2000 and 2001.
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