Bost was born in 1947 in
Irvington, New Jersey. She worked as a bank accountant and then was elected as the Essex County freeholder president. 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. 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. Bost has been a resident of
Barnegat Township, New Jersey. Her husband, Fred M. Bost, died in 2021. ==References==