(AP) -- The former South Carolina sheriff who convinced Susan Smith to confess to her sons' deaths has been sentenced to 90 days in prison for lying to a federal officer.
Multiple media outlets report former Union County Sheriff Howard Wells was sentenced Tuesday. Wells had pleaded guilty to lying to agents about money he loaned in exchange for interest he didn't report as taxable income.
Former county supervisor Donnie Betenbaugh received 18 months in prison on an extortion charge. Former county tax assessor Willie Randall Jr. was sentenced to nearly five years for drug conspiracy.
Wells was propelled into the national spotlight in 1994 when Susan Smith confessed to him she had strapped her sons into her car and let it roll into a lake.
Smith had said the boys were taken in a carjacking.
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