Bost was indicted in March 2002, charged with accepting kickbacks amounting to $8,500 from two city contractors. She was also charged with witness tampering after she met with the former town administrator and counseled him to lie to federal investigators. The administrator, David Fuller, became a government witness against her. She was prosecuted by Chris Christie, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.[5]
In a plea deal in 2003, Bost pleaded guilty to the one charge of witness tampering, and the other charges were dropped. She was sentenced to a year in prison and served it at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson.[3][6] In 2010 the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission fined her $27,000 for failing to file required campaign finance reports by the mandated deadline and for accepting campaign donations that exceeded New Jersey's statutory limits.[4]
^Oglesby, Amanda. "Barnegat's Fred M. Bost, political pioneer, has died at 82", Asbury Park Press, February 26, 2021. Accessed January 3, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Before retiring in Barnegat, Bost worked as a top administrator in the Essex County Sheriff's Office and entered politics to give voice to the region's voiceless, his wife Sara Bost said.... In their retirement years, the couple moved to Four Seasons At Mirage, an age-restricted community in Barnegat."
