'Psychic' sentenced in $1 million scam | Crime, Crashes and Fires
A self-proclaimed psychic accused of conning a woman out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, the Office of Statewide Prosecution reported.
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A self-proclaimed psychic accused of conning a woman out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, the Office of Statewide Prosecution reported.
A "self-proclaimed" psychic was sentenced Friday to nine and a half years behind bars after alleged $1.4 million scam
On Friday, A jury found self-proclaimed psychic Jaycee Wasso guilty of organized fraud and seven other counts of fraud and theft.
The attorney for a self-proclaimed psychic who is on trial for fraud offered a rather unorthodox argument in her defense by positing that she cannot be found guilty because she actually lived up to her promise to thwart the evil spirits that plagued her client.
Another twist came in the psychic fraud trial of Jaycee Wasso when the state’s star witness, Lin Halfon, admitted under cross-examination Thursday that she, not Wasso, is the one who stole $1 million from her wealthy older husband in 2019.