Psychic Gets 18 Months For Theft

Florida: A professed Gypsy psychic who swindled people out of more than $500,000 — promising to rid the money of demons — will spend 18 months in prison.

Gina Marie Marks, 37, was already serving 18 months of probation for similar charges when she was arrested in October. On Wednesday, Marks pleaded guilty to grand theft and two counts of organized fraud, and admitted to violating her probation. She also handed over a $400,000 check to partially repay her victims.

In May 2009, Marks pleaded no contest to grand theft, repaid $54,000 and was sentenced to 18 months probation for telling five clients to give her cash that she would return after she cleansed it of demons. The money was never returned.

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She told a client that an ex-boyfriend's new lover had placed a curse on the client. One way to lift the curse was to give Marks more than $30,000. Marks also duped a Coconut Grove woman into giving her thousands of dollars in gift cards, which would prevent the woman's father from suffering a fatal heart attack.