Man sentenced for false terror claim

Thursday, July 3, 2003

ST. LOUIS -- An Illinois man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 months in prison for falsely telling the FBI that his former business partner planned to crash airplanes into the Super Bowl, Fair St. Louis, the Gateway Arch and a Cardinals baseball game.

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