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WEST SACRAMENTO — A nuclear engineer from California has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for sending threatening letters to President Bush, first lady Laura Bush and others.
Prosecutors say Michael Lee Braun mailed nearly 60 letters over a five-year period after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were also targets.
Most contained a white powder the letters described as poison. It was actually baking soda.
The 53-year-old Braun was arrested in 2006. He was an engineer at the now-closed Rancho Seco nuclear power plant south of Sacramento.
He was sentenced Friday to four years and three months in prison. He also must pay $54,000 in fines and damages.
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