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Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg threatening violence against gun-control advocates.
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When investigators looked closer, they reached a different conclusion: It was the 35-year-old pregnant actress who had sent the letters, and she tried to frame her estranged husband in a bizarre case of marital conflict crossing with bioterrorism.
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Those allegations are detailed in court documents filed Friday as Richardson was arrested and charged with mailing a threatening communication to the president. The federal charge carries up to 10 years in prison, U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman Davilyn Walston said.
Richardson, a mother of five who has played bit roles on television and in movies, is accused of mailing the ricin-laced letters to the White House, to Bloomberg and to the mayor's Washington gun-control group last month.
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My guess, much like my brother Ted's, is that like much of Hollywood, Shannon is a devout liberal, likely a democrat and Obama follower. Given a messy divorce from her husband, who may well have been more conservative and a "gun nut" she conceived this plan as a 'two-fer', get him in legal trouble to get more out of her divorce, and to discredit the "gun culture." Anyway, that's my guess until I see evidence otherwise.
UPDATE: Yep... An anti-gun nut.
Wombat-Socho's world famous (not that that's a high bar these days) weekly Rule 5 post "Rule 5 Sunday: Father's Day" came in on time this week at The Other McCain.
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