If you turned on a television in the late '90s and early 2000s, it was nearly impossible to miss a commercial for the psychic Miss Cleo, but before the FBI finally shut down the fraudulent business, it was a junior Court TV reporter who first discovered the scam. Fresh out of journalism school, Matt Bean was an eager cub reporter when Miss Cleo, who passed away from colon cancer on Wednesday, was at the height of her psychic network success. Suspicious of the business, Bean began investigating and got a tip that the psychics were actually using a prewritten script,...
- 7/28/2016
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