SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Husband, Wife Sentenced in Weapons Sales Case
A San Fernando Valley man was sentenced Monday to eight years and his wife to three years and a month in prison for conspiring to manufacture and sell illegal weapons to an undercover FBI agent who posed as a white supremacist.
Christian and Doris Nadal were arrested with seven others in July and August after an 18-month federal investigation into white supremacist groups in Southern California.
On Oct. 1, a jury convicted Christian Nadal, 35, on 15 counts of selling and transferring illegal weapons and Doris Nadal, 41, on a single conspiracy count, acquitting her on three other charges.
U.S. District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew imposed the sentence on the Nadals, of North Hills, just moments after they read statements in their defense.
“To this day, after six months in prison, I still ask myself: ‘Why did the government go after me and my wife?’ ” Christian Nadal said. “We were law-abiding, tax-paying citizens bothering no one.”
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