A former Senate committee staffer was sentenced to 38 months in prison on Oct. 30 for a scam to fleece $500,000 from a trio of women.
Robert Lee Foster, 65, a former staff member for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, was convicted of wire fraud following his guilty plea on July 31 in federal court in Eastern District of Virginia.
Department of Justice officials said in a release that from 2008 until May 2015, Foster gained the trust of three women in their 60s and 70s and then sought financial aid from them, claiming the funds were “to pay for litigation costs and business expenses that did not exist and for foreign travel that did not occur.”
In addition to the sentence, Foster will forfeit $499,622.54 and pay $503,003.37 in restitution. The case was investigated by the by the Washington field office of the FBI.
