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Texas woman sentenced to 18 years for threatening Obama
July 17, 2014
A 35-year-old woman was today sentenced to 18 years in prison for sending poisonous ricin-laced letters to US President Barack Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 

Shannon Guess Richardson from Texas was sentenced on a charge of possessing and producing a biological toxin. She had pleaded guilty to the charge in December in a deal.
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