Look Into Judge's Crystal Ball: Psychic Going To Jail
Husband Gets Probation
POSTED: 3:32 p.m. EST January 25, 2002
UPDATED: 5:05 p.m. EST January 25, 2002
CLEVELAND -- An east side psychic really can tell her future, but so can the people she cheated out of thousands of dollars, NewsChannel5 reported.
Sandy Miller calls herself a psychic, but her clients said that she never saw charges coming.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge William Coyne sentenced Miller to 4 1/2 years in jail today. She pleaded guilty to several counts of intimidation, theft and engaging in corrupt activity.
Her husband, Steve, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and got his sentence suspended because of poor health. He is on probation.
"In this court's opinion, you are a con artist. The only reason you are sorry is that you were caught," Coyne said.
Miller was caught stealing more than $30,000 from several men and women, young and old, who went to her for help.
None of them want to be identified, but all of them said Miller and her husband ran a malicious and greedy scam, posing as faith healers and fortune tellers when their real goal was to take their client's money.
"If there was such a thing as tar and feathering, that's what they need to be done," said Bob, a victim's father.
Bethany, another victim, said Miller told her she would make good with the money.
"To take the name of the Catholic Church and priests and say, 'You will do good things with this money' -- that is just wrong," Miller said.
WEWS said that it's believed that the Millers preyed upon an individuals emotional weaknesses and desperation, defeating the promises of truth and concern.
Sandy Miller used different names such as, Mother Della, Rev. Mother Rome, Maria Rose, and Mama Sister Mother Rose to attract clients to her psychic storefront.
The Millers said that they have learned a hard lesson.
Prosecutors said that the Millers were convicted of a similar scam back in the 1970s, but they never went to jail for it.
The judge also ordered them to pay back the money, but the victims doubt that they'll ever see any of it.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge William Coyne sentenced Miller to 4 1/2 years in jail today. She pleaded guilty to several counts of intimidation, theft and engaging in corrupt activity.
Her husband, Steve, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and got his sentence suspended because of poor health. He is on probation.
"In this court's opinion, you are a con artist. The only reason you are sorry is that you were caught," Coyne said.
Miller was caught stealing more than $30,000 from several men and women, young and old, who went to her for help.
None of them want to be identified, but all of them said Miller and her husband ran a malicious and greedy scam, posing as faith healers and fortune tellers when their real goal was to take their client's money.
"If there was such a thing as tar and feathering, that's what they need to be done," said Bob, a victim's father.
Bethany, another victim, said Miller told her she would make good with the money.
"To take the name of the Catholic Church and priests and say, 'You will do good things with this money' -- that is just wrong," Miller said.
WEWS said that it's believed that the Millers preyed upon an individuals emotional weaknesses and desperation, defeating the promises of truth and concern.
Sandy Miller used different names such as, Mother Della, Rev. Mother Rome, Maria Rose, and Mama Sister Mother Rose to attract clients to her psychic storefront.
The Millers said that they have learned a hard lesson.
Prosecutors said that the Millers were convicted of a similar scam back in the 1970s, but they never went to jail for it.
The judge also ordered them to pay back the money, but the victims doubt that they'll ever see any of it.
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