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The woman behind the largest case of fortunetelling fraud ever to hit a courtroom has finally been sentenced. Rose Marks, the Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale psychic accused to bilking her longtime clients using a bag of tricks and mental manipulation common among fortunetellers, will go to prison for a little more than ten years. The conviction and sentencing are significant. Rarely are these kinds of cases prosecuted; rarely are they punished with significant jail time.
The author originally came to the psychic after a bad divorce in the '90s. In court, Deveraux testified that Marks ensnared her in a web of outrageous and sad lies -- including that Deveraux was having a secret romance with Colin Powell, that her dead young son was not in heaven but stuck between cosmic planes, and that the boy's spirit had been reborn into a young woman whose body Deveraux would one day inhabit.
This is crap you believe when you're vulnerable and have too much money and free time, all her clients were wealthy.
Cripes.. help an underprivleged kid in need and stop thinking about yourself.
I think this verdict is completely unfair. Did people just wake up and realize this is a novelty? Are they really that stupid?
Can we put Sylvester Stallone in jail because Rocky isn't real?
It costs about ten bucks to see Rocky in the theater, and viewers know it's just a movie -- if they think it's real there's no loss to anyone. This Marks character was wheedling enormous sums out of people, convincing them that something untrue was real. They're dense, I agree, but it doesn't make her any less of a crook.
I think this verdict is completely unfair. Did people just wake up and realize this is a novelty? Are they really that stupid?
Can we put Sylvester Stallone in jail because Rocky isn't real?
These people aren't stupid, they have a mental illness or other flaw that allowed them to be manipulated.
People preying on vulnerable people is illegal, it gets into the whole ability to give consent and be party to a deal or contract.
Imagine someone gets you really drunk at a bar, you sign the tab and find out the next day they charged you $1000 for your last drink and you didn't notice the bill was for a large amount.
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