Los Angeles. Jodie Foster’s father will serve five years in prison. The 89-year-old Lucius Foster should have brought more than 20 people for each $ 5,000 (€ 3,700) and was therefore now a five-year Prison sentenced. The U.S. media report.
Already on Wednesday was the father of actress been found guilty, the sentence was, however, only yesterday, 9 Announced in December.
The celebrity father is said by his famous daughter – to which he has no contact – have surreptitiously obtained the confidence of customers, they say. Lucius Foster promised his victims, build them at a bargain price of 85,000 U.S. dollars a house of cargo containers from China, where they each of them $ 5,000 as a down payment could abknöpfen. Overall, he is said to have swindled by 130,000 U.S. dollars (almost 97,000 euros).
Already in his opening statement the prosecutor Don Cocek told the court:.. “Mr. Foster is a liar and deceiver, he has this swindle operated for years in order to get people out of their money, many people have fallen for it, he has so convincingly. belongs to. ” (Bang)