Defendant Admits Sending Letter With Ricin to Obama
More than nine months after he mailed ricin-laced letters to public officials as part of a brazen and unconventional plot to incriminate a longtime adversary, a Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that were likely to send him to prison for decades.
During an appearance in Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss., J. Everett Dutschke admitted to four counts, including developing a biological weapon and sending a letter threatening President Obama, the target of one communication.
“I am voluntarily entering this plea, and I understand fully in doing so that I am accepting responsibility for everything that he mentioned,” Mr. Dutschke, a former candidate for the Mississippi Legislature, said after a prosecutor discussed the investigation during Friday’s 55-minute proceeding, The Associated Press reported.
