While waiting to be sentenced for a crime across the country, authorities say, Gina Russell convinced a Los Angeles woman that she had psychic powers, helped defraud the woman's father out of money and persuaded her to raise funds through sex work.
On a spring night last year, Gina Rita Russell stopped a woman on a Los Angeles street and told her they were destined to meet. Russell told the woman she sensed something was bothering her and offered to help with a psychic reading, according to documents filed in federal court in March. She read the woman's palm, charged her $300 and identified her frustration: The woman was a performer, but her music career was faltering.
$110,000, believing she 'was indebted to mobsters and that her safety was in jeopardy if she did not pay.' As part of the scheme, according to the U.S. attorney's office, Russell had Tony John Evans impersonate a mobster during calls with Zancan. During one call, Evans asked whether he needed to remind Zancan where his children went to school. All told, Zancan embezzled more than $4 million from his employer between January and March 2017. After the FBI interviewed H.N.
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