Note to investors: If someone claims to be a prophet and promises to win you money by predicting changes in the stock market, don’t walk away. Run.
But unfortunately over 100 investors did not run away when Sean David Morton — who dubbed himself “America’s Prophet” — asked for their money. In all, investors gave Morton more than $6 million in the hopes that he would use his alleged psychic abilities to win big money in the market.
Just last week Morton was charged with investor fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has not responded to the complaint yet. E-mails and calls to his company’s office were not returned.
“Sean David Morton lured scores of investors with his lies and then stole their hard-earned money,” Sanjay Wadhwa, assistant director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office, told ABC News. “Our enforcement action ensures that his money manager days are over.”
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Think of it as the supernatural “Sopranos.”
Actors, cameramen and the curious went deep into Staten Island’s William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge Friday in search of spirits of the dead.
Not just any dead – but those snuffed by the mob whose relatives hope to reach them in the great beyond.
Searches for “Ghostfellas” is the concept of a possible new reality show whose pilot was shot in the sanctuary known to be a favorite gangland graveyard.
No ghosts dropped in Friday, but James McBratney, the brains behind the project, insisted “the shoot was great” because a woman whose father and brother were slain when she was 11 “found closure.”
“She said the deaths left her unable to have long-term relationships for fear of more painful loss,” said McBratney. “I told her that her loved ones want her to write a love story. It was like a burden lifted because she’s in fact writing a music album.”
And how did McBratney, a 48-year-old Staten Island private eye and substance abuse counselor, receive that message from the dead?
He shies away from the word psychic, even though he proudly says he nearly was a winner on “American Psychic Challenge.” And he admits he has yet to talk to any of the departed, although he hopes to.
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