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Gina Marie Marks (born January 25, 1973〔http://www.seminolesheriff.org/en-us/advisories/transient_offenders/reports/trav550.html 〕) is an American psychic and convicted fraudster. Under the pseudonym of Regina Milbourne, she authored ''Miami Psychic: Confessions of a Confidante'', a memoir published by the Regan Books division of HarperCollins in 2006.〔http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-07-13/news/psych-job/full/〕〔http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-09-01/news/fl-psychic-theft-prison-20100901_1_gina-marie-marks-psychic-business-regina-milbourne〕〔http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/29/3530116/fred-grimm-in-south-florida-psychic.html〕〔http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Prison-Prediction-for-Psychic-Scammer-63840247.html〕〔http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2013-06-06/news/fortuneteller-scams/full/〕 ==Criminal charges== In 2007, Marks pleaded no contest to grand theft charges related to an agreement to cleanse souls for a total of $65,000.〔http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Prison-Prediction-for-Psychic-Scammer-63840247.html〕 She was then put on probation for eighteen months and ordered to return the money back to her clients. In 2009, she was arrested again for a similar event.〔http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Prison-Prediction-for-Psychic-Scammer-63840247.html〕 In 2010, she was then arrested again in Florida for a defrauding of over $300,000 and for violating probation.〔http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/1984594831.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Mar+17%2C+2010&author=Rafael+A+Olmeda&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&edition=&startpage=B.2&desc=PROFESSED+PSYCHIC+IS+ACCUSED+OF+TAKING+%24300%2C000+FROM+CLIENT%3B+DIGEST〕 A month later, while still in Broward County Jail, she was arraigned again on further fraud charges involving another person who came forward due to media exposure from her March arrest.〔http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-psychic-new-charges-20100427,0,4471364.story〕 On September 1, 2010, Marks pleaded guilty to grand theft and two counts of organized fraud. In addition she admitted to violating her probation. At her sentencing, Marks handed over a $400,000 check to partially repay her former clients.〔http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/09/chait_investigation.php〕 Marks was paroled in June 2011 from Gadsden Correctional Facility. She served nine of her eighteen-month sentence and is currently on probation for eight years. On April 2, 2014, in a different case, Marks was sentenced to 10 years of probation.〔http://www.local10.com/news/gina-marks-sentenced-to-10-years-of-probation/25285632〕〔http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-04-02/news/fl-swindle-sentencing-20140402_1_swindling-case-boca-raton-woman-probation〕〔http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Woman-Sentenced-to-10-Years-Probation-For-Swindling-85-Year-Old-Man-253638741.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gina Marks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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