Posted on 03/05/2010 6:41:25 AM PST by hennie pennie
He calls himself "America's Prophet," a psychic, trained by Nepalese monks in the art of time travel, who can foretell the future of the stock market.
But to the authorities, Sean David Morton is simply a fraud - and a really, really bad psychic.
In a case that seems ripped from the pages of the satirical newspaper The Onion, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Mr. Morton for securities fraud on Thursday, claiming he swindled more than $6 million from investors by promising them "piles of money," along with spiritual happiness.
"I have called ALL the highs and lows of the market giving EXACT DATES for rises and crashes over the last 14 years," Mr. Morton claimed at one point, according to the documents filed in connection with the case.
Next to the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, the Morton case might seem like little more than a footnote in the annals of financial fraud. But the story is so unlike the usual Wall Street fare - it touches on late-night talk radio, a company called Magic Eight Ball and the Dalai Lama - that even in this post-Madoff world it all seems a bit hard to fathom.
By his own reckoning, Mr. Morton is a modern-day Nostradamus. According to his Web site, delphiassociates.org, the Dalai Lama sent him to a monastery in Nepal, where a fusion of Eastern spirituality and Western psychic techniques helped him develop the "spiritual remote viewing" system......
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LOL
Your link goes to a story about cancer treatment.
He’s probably as accurate as most “experts”.
Who are the morons that fall for this kind of stuff, anyway?
They are depicted in blue...
...a psychic, trained by Nepalese monks in the art of time travel, who can foretell the future of the stock market... swindled more than $6 million from investors by promising them "piles of money," along with spiritual happiness... According to his Web site, delphiassociates.org, the Dalai Lama sent him to a monastery in Nepal, where a fusion of Eastern spirituality and Western psychic techniques helped him develop the "spiritual remote viewing" system...
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