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US Government Scientist to Receive Huge Payout in Anthrax Case

by Gopalan on June 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM General Health News

The US Justice department on Friday agreed to pay more than $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, a former a former army scientist, who was once branded a �person of interest� in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001.

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The anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax from its FBI case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. The crime remains unsolved.

Less than a year after the first anthrax mailing, in September 2001, Hatfill was publicly named a person of interest. �He is a person that the FBI has been interested in," said then-Attorney General John Ashcroft at a press conference in August 2002.

As the investigation wore on, Hatfill was considered such a likely suspect that his home was searched -- twice -- as was his girlfriend's apartment.

FBI agents and Justice Department officials leaked key details about the case to willing reporters, according to depositions provided in Hatfill�s civil suit. The FBI kept the pressure on Hatfill by conspicuously tailing him in public, with one agent in an unmarked car once running over his foot.

Hatfill insisted from the beginning that he had no involvement whatsoever. �I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters, and it is terribly wrong to contend or think otherwise," he said at the time. Now he seems to stand vindicated.

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