WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The indictment charges Foster, a resident of De Pere, Wisconsin, with nine counts of wire fraud that he perpetrated against three women from 2008 to May 2015.
Foster devised a strategy to obtain money and property from at least three women, who he targeted because of their age, health, marital or family status, according to the Justice Department.
“A former staff member of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was charged by indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia with defrauding at least three women of approximately $500,000,” the release said on Thursday.
He used his affiliation with the US Senate to receive the women’s trust, leading them to send money, which he used for personal benefit.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated the Foster’s case. The case is now prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Kevin Driscoll and Peter Halpern of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and Assistant US Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia, Jamar Walker, according to the statement.
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