NEW JERSEY — A German national who spent years as a fugitive after orchestrating a multimillion-dollar mail fraud scheme involving fraudulent psychic solicitations has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison, authorities said.
Georg Ingenbleek, 59, was sentenced in Newark federal court after pleading guilty to two counts of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced.
Ingenbleek was indicted in 2020 and remained a fugitive until his arrest in Bolzano, Italy, in 2024. He was extradited to the United States in May 2025 to face the charges.
According to court documents and statements, Ingenbleek ran the scheme from at least 2011 through 2016, sending mass mailings that purported to be from well-known psychics offering personalized services and items that promised recipients good fortune. Many of the solicitations falsely claimed the services were free.
Prosecutors said Ingenbleek then directed co-conspirators to send follow-up billing notices demanding payment and threatening legal action if recipients did not pay. The notices falsely stated victims owed money for services and warned they would be “prosecuted to the full extent of the law” if they failed to comply.
Victims were typically instructed to send payments ranging from $20 to $50. Authorities said the scheme generated more than $13 million.
U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi also ordered Ingenbleek to forfeit $13,618,921.19 and imposed a three-year term of supervised release following his prison sentence.
