psychic suit - the full story

There’s a man in Colorado who’s suing a psychic he claims he gave over $170,000. Apparently she had him give her money and buy gift cards from various stores to help increase his good energy and clear bad karma for him and his daughter. She said the money and cards would not be spent, only held by her for a while. The deal, according to the man suing, was that she would return the money, I guess when his karma was cleared up.

When the psychic moved to California without returning the cash, he sued her. At first blush, this is an obvious psychic fraud situation (see my blog entry you don't have a curse on you! Though I wondered why this guy was such an easy touch, I felt sorry for him and was firmly on his side in the case.

But as it turns out, what was not mentioned in the first two articles I read (in the Longmont Daily Times-Call and the KXLF radio report from Montana), was that the man suing had been in a romantic relationship with the psychic – for over a year no less! And he didn’t figure things out? I don’t know . . . .

If you ask me, that piece of information adds a whole new dimension to the story. The guy may have been defrauded of his money, but it doesn’t sound like a psychic fraud, or least that wasn’t the main issue. As one guy quoted by the Associated Press says, “I don’t believe there to be anything criminal, unless it’s against the law for a girl to break a guy’s heart”.

Kudos to the Associated Press, CBS4 Denver News, the Billings Gazette and Daily India.com for getting the more complete story out. There’s enough situations where so-called psychics and tarot readers are actually guilty of using metaphysics to defraud their clients. When there’s more to the story than that, it’s only fair to make that clear. Thanks.