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...profession from two of New York's Finest. Over a late lunch at the Tick Tock Diner, Detective Ralph Aiello briefed me about his undercover work for Operation Crystal Ball, a crackdown on exploitative fortunetellers. "They're like vultures on the African plain," says Aiello. His boss, Lieutenant Robert Groth, in a sleek blue suit and crisp haircut, puts it simply: "They're professional con artists...
...Groth's watch, nearly a dozen psychics have been arrested on charges ranging from fortunetelling, a selectively enforced misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail, to grand larceny, a felony. One clairvoyant allegedly convinced a client that rubbing her body with raw eggs and bathing in special potions would lift a curse. The cost of that exorcism? About $500,000. A similarly inventive psychic encouraged an undercover cop to buy 90 candles, at $55 each, to fend off evil spirits...
...wrong. The applications disappeared within 48 hours. Anderson went back to the printer; people lined up outside his office and waited. By last week he had handed out 4,000 forms; 1,800 had already been completed and returned. His deputy, James Groth, sat in a room surrounded by them, furiously processing, with no end in sight. "My family has almost forgotten what I look like," Groth said. A bemused hostage to his fellow citizens' need to pack clandestine heat, Groth has been taken somewhat by surprise...
...technical policy and public-service director Edward Groth III calls the fda letter to Hansen "hogwash, a propaganda document put out to discredit his report." Groth defends Hansen's expertise and explains CR's position on bst: "The literature shows there is possibly a problem but no conclusive proof. Scientist A says we should be cautious. Scientist B says let's go ahead. Science sometimes carries more weight than it should. Science is good, but in policy you need value judgments...
...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...