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Bonta Family: Waiting for Justice, Living in Fear

Valerie Taliman

July 13, 2011

FERNLEY, Nev. – It has been seven weeks since the Bonta family was traumatized by an apparent hate crime that changed their lives in all the wrong ways...

Lyon County District Attorney Releases Bonta Police Report

ICTMN Staff

July 13, 2011

Last week Indian Country Today Media Network received a copy of the police report concerning the arrest of John Bonta on May 24, 2011...

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