A connecticut fortune-teller is facing 15 years of jail time for cheating her clients out of US$138,000. A jury convicted 39-year-old Sylvia Mitchell - who convinced two women they could rid themselves of "negative energy" stemming from "past lives" by giving her thousands of dollars - on 10 counts of grand larceny and one count of scheming to defraud, The New York Times reported. The women said Mitchell promised to refund their cash, which she was holding onto as a way to break their problematic attachment to money, if their lives did not get better.
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