U.S. Court Convicts Waagner in Anthrax Hoax Case

A U.S. federal court yesterday convicted Clayton Lee Waagner of sending hundreds of anthrax hoax letters to abortion providers in the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Dec. 2). 

It took the jury only about three hours to find Waagner guilty on 51 of 53 charges, including threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction, AP reported. Waagner could be sentenced to decades in prison (David Caruso, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Dec. 3).

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