The Bizarre Story of a Man Who Tried to Impersonate a Congressman's Top Aide

WASHINGTON, DC — What would you do if you really, really wanted field passes to a Washington Redskins game? You might try to befriend or butter up some people you think might have access to them, or you might take on some extra work to make the money necessary to buy them ... or, if you're one D.C. man, you impersonate a top aide to a U.S. congressman from Georgia.

Jarrett Lewis was sentenced last week to three months of home confinement after authorities say he pretended to be a top aide to U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). Lewis pleaded guilty in July to a federal charge of impersonating a U.S. government official, and he's lucky to get off with the sentence he got -- his charge carried up to three years in prison, according to an NBC Washington report.

In reality, Jarrett Lewis was just an employee of a D.C.-based non-profit and had no relation to the congressman, with whom he happens to share a last name. The congressman's real chief of staff is Michael Collins.

Jarrett Lewis was clearly quite the Redskins fan to put himself through the ordeal. He used this cover for a year in an attempt to obtain field passes from the Washington Redskins.

It was quite a bold move. Here's what the court filing says, as quoted by NBC: "In September 2014, (Jarrett) Lewis contacted the Washington Redskins football organization, pretending to be the actual Chief of Staff for Congressman Lewis, explicitly invoking the Chief of Staff's position, (Jarrett) Lewis requested field passes for a Washington Redskins sports event for himself."

Lewis even added the address of the Washington office of the congressman to his emails to give it an air of legitimacy.

But that's not all he did. He's also accused of using the same ruse to get access to the Clevelander, a famous bar in South Beach in Miami. It all came crashing down for him when employees at the bar notified the office of Rep. John Lewis.

He has apologized to all involved.