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PITTSBURGH -- A local state representative charged in a serious hoax said he is being targeted. Jeff Habay State Rep. Jeff Habay is accused of lying when he told authorities he received an envelope containing a suspicious white powder from a constituent. Habay's attorney believes his client is the victim of a vendetta. Defense Attorney Jim Ecker said, "This is what really bothers me, is he is a politician. There isn't a month that goes by that I don't pick up a newspaper or watch you guys on TV and I see so and so politician, whether it's a U.S....

Pittsburgh (KDKA) A Shaler Township man questioned about his possible involvement in an anthrax scare involving a Representative Jeff Habay says he feels vindicated now that authorities believe Habay made up the story. Habay claimed he received a letter from a critical constituent at his house that contained a suspicious white powder. After the allegations surfaced, US Postal Inspectors, police and investigators from the district attorney's office showed up at George Radich's house to question him. "I was scared, it really threw me for a loop... [The postal inspectors] asked me, had I mailed anything to Jeffrey Habay. I said...

Glenshaw (AP) State Rep. Jeffrey E. Habay was charged Wednesday for allegedly lying about a white powder he said he received in the mail from a contituent who was critical of him. Allegheny County authorities charged Habay, 38, with facsimile weapons of mass destruction, falsely incriminating another and fictious reports for claiming in May that he received an envelope in his home that contained a suspicious white powder.