The continuing saga of the Marks – America’s number one psychic fraud-charged family. Man charged in ‘psychic’ fraud case pleads guilty. One of nine members of a Broward County family of fortune tellers accused of operating a multimillion-dollar fraud on customers pleaded guilty to a lone criminal charge this week. Michael Marks, 34, of Hollywood, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors and admitted he participated in a mail and wire fraud conspiracy dating to the early 2000s in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Marks is the son of Rose Marks, who federal prosecutors say is the matriarch and ringleader of a sophisticated conspiracy. Nine members of the family were arrested in August 2011 on allegations they cheated clients out of an estimated $40 million. Oh the Marks family. It’s never ending with them. I can hardly keep track of all their impending criminal charges and antics. For more, see here. In this case, Michael Marks ran a psychic service where the “psychics” told the clients they were cursed and advised them to hand over valuables in order to remove the so-called cursed. You can guess what DIDN’T happen. I did not know this scam was so darn popular but we [...]
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