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Related: About this forumSouth Florida Woman Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in Restitution for "Fortune
South Florida Woman Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in Restitution for Fortune Telling Fraud SchemeAriana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that a South Florida woman was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for orchestrating a fraud scheme involving fortune telling.
Sherry Tina Uwanawich, a/k/a Jacqueline Miller, 28, was sentenced on September 6, 2019, to 40 months incarceration by U.S. District Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz (Case No. 18CR80235). Uwanawich had previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
According to the court docket, including the agreed upon factual proffer, the defendant was holding herself out as a psychic/fortune teller when she met a female victim in Houston, Texas in 2007. Uwanawich gained the trust of the victim and convinced her that a curse had been placed on her and her family. The defendant claimed she needed large sums of money to purchase items, such as crystals, candles and the like, which were needed for meditation work in order to lift the curse. Failure to do so, the victim was led to believe, would result in harm to her and family. The relationship between the victim and Uwanawich continued for years, even after the defendant had moved to South Florida, and during that time the victim was induced to give up approximately $1.6 million dollars. The scheme came to an end in early 2014, when Uwanawich admitted to the victim there had been no curse.
Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/south-florida-woman-sentenced-prison-and-ordered-pay-16-million-restitution-fortune
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South Florida Woman Sentenced to Prison and Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in Restitution for "Fortune (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 2019
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And if she had stopped at $1 million she might have gotten away with it. n/t
PoliticAverse
Sep 2019
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. And if she had stopped at $1 million she might have gotten away with it. n/t
TexasTowelie
(112,121 posts)2. Needless to say,
she didn't see what was coming in the crystal ball.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. She needed a Magic 8 Ball. n/t
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)3. Sorta sounds like a mega church approach. nt