NATION IN BRIEF : COLORADO : Ex-Missouri Official Begins Prison Term
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William L. Webster, the former Missouri attorney general whose once-golden political career was destroyed by scandal, began a two-year sentence in federal prison. Webster reported to a prison camp in Florence, Colo., after being convicted of conspiring to use state resources for his political campaigns. Webster, the 1992 Republican nominee for Missouri governor, accused federal prosecutors of a witch hunt to discredit him. He pleaded guilty last summer to conspiracy and misapplying state resources to his campaign by using state employees, equipment and supplies for political purposes.
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