Navajo Sentenced Again
Associated Press
PHOENIX —
Former Navajo Chairman Peter MacDonald has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for his role in a 1989 riot at the tribe’s headquarters in Window Rock in which two people were killed. The term will overlap a sentence of more than seven years that MacDonald, 64, is serving for bribery and other crimes, U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield said Tuesday.
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