“guilty of violating the federal Fair Housing Act by assaulting Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala”
I don’t understand this part.
They were violating the illegal immigrant’s right to live where he chooses to live: http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003482.html
I think that’s how they made it a federal case instead of a garden variety state case, by alleging violation of federal laws.