Long-Time Fugitive Sentenced To 70 Months’ Incarceration For Multimillion Dollar Mail Fraud Scheme

NEWARK, N.J. - A German man who orchestrated a massive mail fraud scheme by mass mailing false and fraudulent psychic solicitations was sentenced to 70 months' incarceration in Newark federal court, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced today.

Georg Ingenbleek, 59, a citizen of Germany, was indicted in 2020 and has been a long-time fugitive. He was apprehended in Bolzano, Italy in 2024 and extradited to the United States in May 2025 to face the indictment, which charged him with two counts of mail fraud. Ingenbleek previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi to the two counts of mail fraud.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

From at least 2011 through 2016, Ingenbleek created numerous direct mail solicitations supposedly from world-renowned psychics, falsely and fraudulently offering recipients individual psychic services and objects that would result in great fortune. Many of the letters falsely promised that the psychic services being offered were free of charge. Ingenbleek then directed co-conspirators to send fraudulent billing notices to the same victims that stated that the victims owed money for psychic services and that failure to pay would be "prosecuted to the full extent of the law." The fraudulent billing notices falsely represented that the victims owed fees and threatened to take legal action if the victim did not send a check, usually for $20 to $50. Through his fraudulent psychic mailing campaign, Ingenbleek obtained more than $13 million dollars from victims.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Cecchi ordered forfeiture in the amount of $13,618,921.19 and imposed a three-year term of supervised release.

U.S Attorney Frazer credited postal inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service Philadelphia Division, under the direction of Inspector in Charge Christopher A. Nielsen; special agents of IRS - Criminal Investigation Newark Field Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Jenifer Piovesan; and special agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael Alfonso, with the investigation leading to the charges, and HSI Rome and the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs for providing significant assistance in securing the defendant's extradition from Italy.

The government is represented by Assistant United States Attorney Olta Bejleri of the Economic Crimes Unit in Newark.

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Defense counsel: Daniel Rashbaum, Esq., Miami, Florida.