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harvey007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 09:21 PM
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The Mysterious Predictions of a Governor’s Psychic
Source: NY Times

One interview, with The New York Times, was an eye opener. In it, Mr. Paterson disclosed that a woman claiming to have psychic powers had come up to him in a bar in late 2007 and said he would soon become governor. This was when he was lieutenant governor and the top man was Eliot Spitzer, the self-proclaimed steamroller, whose hold on power seemed as secure at the time as an investment with the Madoffs.

Sure enough, mere months later, Mr. Spitzer became a john on the spot. He resigned and turned his office over to Mr. Paterson. Madame Fifi, or whatever name the psychic went by, got it brilliantly right.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/nyregion/28nyc.html?partner=rss&emc=rss%3f



Probably a mob-connected psychic...
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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 09:25 PM
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1. Psychics tell people what they want to hear.....
...that's what makes the scam work. Kinda like the "Glen Beck" phenomena.
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Myrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 09:28 PM
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2. ... maybe one of Goldman Sachs' CEO's was also her client ...
... and let it slip that they had some 'goods' on Spitzer that they were going to use to get him off the Banksters asses.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 09:45 PM
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3. There you go.
Just gonna say...

Or maybe she herself was an investigator.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 10:12 PM
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4. and she left out the part where patterson
would have one of the most awful embarrassing pitiful reigns in recent us gubernatorial history?
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