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Alleged Con Artist Extradited to Northern Ireland for £130,000 Fraud

Marianne Smyth, accused of posing as an Irish heiress and psychic, faces multiple charges of theft and fraud.

  • Smyth allegedly defrauded victims in Northern Ireland between 2008 and 2010 while working as a mortgage advisor.
  • She is accused of stealing over $170,000 by promising to invest clients' money but instead keeping it.
  • Victims included a reality TV producer who later exposed her schemes through a podcast.
  • Smyth, who used multiple aliases and changed her appearance, was arrested in Maine and extradited in February.
  • Northern Ireland authorities had been seeking her arrest since 2009 after she fled the country.
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