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Anthrax Hoaxer Who Mailed Package to News & Review Sentenced

By AAN Staff
april 27, 2010  09:31 am
Anthrax Hoaxer Who Mailed Package to News & Review Sentenced
Marc Keyser has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for perpetrating a nationwide anthrax hoax in 2008. Before mailing out 100 packages in 2008, Keyser sent a hoax anthrax package to the Sacramento News & Review in January 2007. He was questioned and warned by FBI agents, but not arrested, after he mailed a cylinder marked "anthrax" to the alt-weekly because he wanted publicity for a novel he had written.
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