Posted on 03/03/2023 6:15:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
Statewide prosecutor Paul Dontenville said during opening statements that Wasso was a self-proclaimed psychic who, three years ago, convinced her client Lin Halfon that the cash would ward off evil spirits and break a family spell.
Dontenville read from a series of text messages between Wasso and Halfon.
"Lin, want me to tell you what’s going on? Your mother is going to die.'"
Halfon’s mother was ill at the time. Prosecutors say Wasso told Halfon the money would break a family curse and cure her mother of cancer.
Dontenville explained Wasso pressured Halfon to come up with the money, pricey jewelry and designer handbags. If not, bad things would happen.
"Darkness is going to possess you (and) take away your whole family,"
But Wasso’s attorney, Glen Lansky, told the jury his client is taking the fall for Joey and John Evans.
He said Wasso was simply providing a spiritual service in exchange for a cash payment.
Lansky told the jury, "My client is charged with threatening her and manipulating her. She never put a gun to her head. She never put a knife to her throat.... The threats are supposedly, ‘If you don’t pay me, the evil spirits are coming.’"
"The evil spirits never came, that’s what she paid for," argued Lanksy.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox13news.com ...
Cotton Mather said fortune tellers are frauds.
What a poorly worded title. Who was accused of stealing? The lawyers? The psychic?
Yes and this one’s even worse: “Migrant posing as minor who killed father of four that took him in gets 60 years in prison”
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