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Anthrax II: U.S. Judge Sentences Grandmother to 10 Months in Halfway House for Hoaxes A 69-year-old Massachusetts woman was sentenced last week to 10 months in a halfway house for mailing anthrax hoax letters (see GSN, Feb. 11). Joyce Godbout, a grandmother of 10, pleaded guilty last year to mailing 18 death threats — some including a white powder — to Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly, members of his staff and a judge who were all involved in her 2001 conviction on Medicaid fraud charges, according to the Associated Press. Godbout had originally been sentenced to serve a year at a halfway house, but a new policy later removed federal judges’ discretion in sentencing nonviolent offenders, AP reported. At Godbout’s resentencing hearing Thursday, U.S. Attorney Stephen Huggard called on the judge to sentence Godbout to at least 30 months in prison, despite her advanced age. “The papers say that the government wants granny to go to jail. ... Well, granny should go to jail because granny is a terrorist,” Huggard said (Associated Press/TheBostonChannel.com, June 6).
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