A Placer County swindler has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for a series of con jobs that fleeced more than a dozen people out of at least $350,000.

U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England dished out the sentence last week to Randall B. Foshie, 58, a South Placer resident who pleaded guilty to using the mail to defraud his victims with schemes that included taking upfront “commitment” fees for business loans that never materialized and accepting payments for phony electric car dealerships.

Foshie, whose rap sheet includes two prior fraud convictions, claimed to be a billionaire with plenty of money to lend at attractive rates.

Matthew Bockman, a deputy federal public defender, urged the judge to take Foshie’s poor health into consideration. Foshie appeared in court in a wheelchair and claimed to be suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Judge England replied that the Federal Bureau of Prisons has sufficient medical staffing to care for Foshie while he’s behind bars.

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