South Florida Woman Claiming Psychic Powers Found Guilty of Fraud

[The Straight Story]

A South Florida woman who claimed to have psychic powers has been convicted by a jury of multiple fraud charges in what prosecutors called a long-running $40 million scam.

Jurors in West Palm Beach federal court found 62-year-old Rose Marks guilty of all 14 counts. The Palm Beach Post reports that Marks faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Several other family members previously pleaded guilty.

Marks and other family members operated out of storefronts in Fort Lauderdale and New York City. Testimony showed she convinced people that money was the source of evil and that they should give her cash and valuables to be cleansed and returned. Most was not.

One victim was romance novelist Jude Deveraux who testified she gave Marks about $18 million over several years.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/South-Florida-Woman-Claiming-Psychic-Powers-Found-Guilty-of-Fraud-225430202.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand

[haikugal]

1. How is this different than what religion offers?

[hobbit709]

2. Anyone dumb enough to believe this crap deserves to get took.

[LeftofObama]

3. A fool and his/her money... n/t

[Dr. Strange]

4. Odd that she didn't see this coming.

[JHB]

5. 'Cause if she was actually psychic, she would have seen this coming.

Q.E.D.

[malaise]

6. The truth is that she didn't buy her own BS

but the gullible sheeple lost a bundle - as usual.

[longship]

7. Jesus on a half shell!

What's wrong with people who are so ignorant that something like this could even happen?

What's wrong with our culture that psychics are even a legal profession?

Like Sylvia Browne. They are all scammers. They all belong in jail.

Bennie Hinn and Peter Popoff belong with them.

Skepticism. The rational choice.

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. There's a guy a few blocks away from me who claims to have a direct line

to Heavenly Father. He rakes in tax-free billions.

She just needed a bigger congregation.