As part of a plea bargain, 35-year-old Brian Moudry pleaded guilty in January in federal court in Chicago to violating the family’s civil rights, the Tribune reports.
“This was an exceptionally despicable crime motivated by hate," the government argued in a sentencing memo, according to NBC Chicago. "The victims of the arson did nothing, but move into a new residence in Joliet. Unbeknownst to the victims, several houses down lived a white supremacist who never knew the victims but hated them because they were African American."
