New York psychic pleads guilty to conning lovelorn consultant out of $500,000

A New York psychic pleaded guilty to defrauding a British man, who paid her more than $500,000, by conning him into believing she could reunite him with his dead girlfriend. Priscilla Delmaro, 26, was arrested in May and now expects to be released on four years’ probation when sentenced on January 26. The mother of three, who ran her business from an office in Times Square, said nothing in court other than “yes, your honour” and “no, your honor” to questions from the judge. She admitted to one count of grand larceny to defrauding Niall Rice from November 13, 2013 and April 20 for having alleged psychic powers that could reunite him with his girlfriend.

It’s embarrassing now. I just got sucked in.

Lovelorn Niall Rice

Rice, 33, was a hugely successful marketing consultant at the time – so desperate to get back with a former girlfriend that he paid two Manhattan psychics more than $718,000 in his quest. He had met the woman, Michelle, who died in early 2014 at a rehab clinic in Arizona, where they enjoyed a brief affair. He said he just got suckered in. "That’s what people don’t understand. ‘How can you fall for it?’“ he said. Rice considers the plea bargain a "travesty of justice” and that repeated requests on police and prosecutors to press charges against the other psychic had fallen on deaf ears.

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