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Hass pleaded guilty to the January 1998 attack on the immigrant's home in Granada Hills, a Los Angeles suburb.

He admitted covering the entire front of the one-story building with six large swastikas, a pair of lightning bolts, initials of a skinhead gang, and the words "white power."

Matz told Hass that his crime, though only a misdemeanor, was vile and contemptible.