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| Man Who Threatened Hillary Rodham Clinton Found Hanged in Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/30/2002 |
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A man who threatened to kill Hillary Rodham Clinton in a letter sent to her home in Westchester County was found hanged in his prison cell this week, authorities said. Paul Lagoe Jr., 22, died Monday at Southport Correctional Facility, a maximum-security state prison in Chemung County. Guards found his body more than an hour after they last checked his cell, said Department of Correctional Services spokesman James Flateau. Guards performed CPR and took Lagoe to the prison infirmary and then to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died. Lagoe was serving a three-year sentence for assaulting a man in November 2000 in downtown Fulton. That sentence ran concurrently with a September 2001 federal court sentence for a charge of mailing threatening communications. Lagoe admitted in May 2001 to sending a threatening letter to Clinton's home in Chappaqua. According to the indictment, the letter, postmarked Nov. 2, 2000, said: 'I'm going to kill you.' Since Lagoe's death, Southport Superintendent Mike McGinnis changed part of the facility's policy on checking prisoners. Guards must check the inmates every 30 minutes, including at the shift change, Flateau said. An autopsy is pending and the state Commission of Corrections is investigating. |
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