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Albemarle {County, Virginia,} psychic indicted for fraud by federal grand jury
Albemarle psychic indicted for fraud by federal grand juryPosted: Friday, July 24, 2015 10:30 pm
By LAUREN BERG The Daily Progress
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A central Virginia woman who claimed she had a “gift from God” and could see into the past and future is facing federal charges that she defrauded multiple clients, including one for more than $1.4 million. ... A federal grand jury in Charlottesville indicted Sandra Marks, also called Catherine Marks, on April 22 on 31 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The indictment was unsealed Thursday morning after police arrested her in New York and brought her before a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.
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According to the indictment, Marks would tell her clients she had spoken to spirits and learned that the client and the client’s family were suffering from a “curse” and a “dark cloud.” To relieve themselves of the ruination, Marks told her clients they needed to make a “sacrifice” by giving her large amounts of money and valuables because “money was the root of all evil.”
Marks told her clients she preferred cash, according to the indictment, and she would bury the money or valuables in a box and “cleanse” it through prayer, rituals and meditation. She allegedly told her clients she could not and would not use the money for her own personal benefit. Once it was “cleansed,” she told her clients it would be returned to them, according to the indictment.
She allegedly received two pieces of mail in 2011, each containing $729,000, from one of the victims. According to the indictment, she also received more than $2.1 million from five victims in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Colorado.
By LAUREN BERG The Daily Progress
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A central Virginia woman who claimed she had a “gift from God” and could see into the past and future is facing federal charges that she defrauded multiple clients, including one for more than $1.4 million. ... A federal grand jury in Charlottesville indicted Sandra Marks, also called Catherine Marks, on April 22 on 31 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The indictment was unsealed Thursday morning after police arrested her in New York and brought her before a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.
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According to the indictment, Marks would tell her clients she had spoken to spirits and learned that the client and the client’s family were suffering from a “curse” and a “dark cloud.” To relieve themselves of the ruination, Marks told her clients they needed to make a “sacrifice” by giving her large amounts of money and valuables because “money was the root of all evil.”
Marks told her clients she preferred cash, according to the indictment, and she would bury the money or valuables in a box and “cleanse” it through prayer, rituals and meditation. She allegedly told her clients she could not and would not use the money for her own personal benefit. Once it was “cleansed,” she told her clients it would be returned to them, according to the indictment.
She allegedly received two pieces of mail in 2011, each containing $729,000, from one of the victims. According to the indictment, she also received more than $2.1 million from five victims in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Colorado.
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