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He also falsely claimed that he was a rabbi and boasted that he was worth between $10billion and $30billion on different occasions, according to court documents.
Prosecutors claimed he stole the identity of a man named Clifford Getz, forged a passport and used the Social Security number of a 13-year-old boy from Ohio.
He told his victims ‘brazen lies’ claiming to have worked for the CIA, the Secret Service and the LAPD and saying that he was an expert astrologer and had used his knowledge to help pick the jury for the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Using his fake identity, he defrauded one businessman out of over $3million, and a widow out of over $550,000, driving both of them ‘into destitution and bankruptcy’ according to prosecutors.
He met the widow with four children in 2016 through his purported astrological reading services. She paid Lewis for a reading and he provided her with advice over the course of several months.
He allegedly told her he was a billionaire and that it was ‘in her chart’ to get her mortgage paid off, convincing her to send him approximately $555,000 for him
He should have used his astrology skills to see they were closing in on him to arrest him.