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<text id=94TT1763>
<title>
Dec. 19, 1994: Sentenced:James Scott
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
Dec. 19, 1994 Uncle Scrooge
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 29
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<p> SENTENCED. JAMES SCOTT, 24, the Illinois man convicted of
having caused a catastrophe by removing several sandbags from
a levee holding back the swollen Mississippi River during the
1993 floods; to life in prison; in Kirksville, Missouri.
Prosecutors maintained that Scott, intent on stranding his wife
across the river so he could party, created a breach that
ultimately flooded 14,000 acres of farmland, destroyed scores
of buildings and closed a key bridge.
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</article>
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