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Brian Lee Foster, 51, who formerly served as CEO and Director of Gaming for four Lucky Star Casinos, was sentenced Sept. 22 on charges of income tax evasion. He also served as director of gaming for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
Foster, of Norman, was sent to federal prison for a year and a day for failure to file federal income tax returns in 2012 and 2013. Additionally, Foster, who according to court paperwork, earned more than $2.4 million in those years, was ordered to pay more than $1 million to the IRS in back taxes.
Foster had issued a guilty plea in October 2019 to the charge of willingly failing to file a federal tax return for those two years.
The investigation was carried out by the criminal investigation branch of the IRS. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Brown prosecuted the case and Foster will turn himself in at federal prison on Oct. 26
Ṫhe sentence was announced by Timothy Downing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma and handed down by United States Magistrate Judge Suzanne Mitchell.
Connie Burcham can be reached at Editor@WatongaRepublican.com