October 21, 2021 • 34 mins
Mair Smyth spectacularly scams a Los Angeles politician out of tens of thousands by impersonating his former mistress and making threats of taking their relationship public right before an election. Johnathan also learns that Mair’s been in the blackmail business for a while, conning men she meets on a “Sugar Daddy” dating site. As he uncovers each new head-spinning con, Johnathan wonders just how far down this rabbit hole goes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Certain portions of what you're about to hear have been
dramatized based on real life events, eyewitness accounts, and court records.
When I find out my best friend is scamming me,
I decided to start a blog. I know there must
be others out there, others I should warn, But I
didn't know I'd be rescuing an unsuspecting Newport Beach engineer
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from losing millions of dollars. Oh, she was trying to
get ahold of his property, both of them. I don't
just stop with the blog. I bust her scamming techniques
for impersonating celebrities wide open. She would set up Google
accounts and phone numbers and tag Jennifer Aniston into it
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so it would come up on her phone or email
that jen was calling, or JEM was emailing, or Jem
was texting. I also exploit the fact that Mayor Smith
carelessly shares really private information with victims she's scamming. She
gave you her email password. Why because she couldn't figure
out how to use a goddamn fire stick for someone
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so smart and conniving. Pretty dumb move, right. I use
that intel to get into her email account and uncover
evidence of dozens of different scams she's pulling. I also
uncover something else, So what's sugar Daddy for Me dot com?
Sugar daddies pay sugar babies, and she had multiple men
paying her a monthly fee for sex. I'm Jonathan Walton
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and this is Queen of the Con Episode five. The
Politician gotta admit I had no idea a dating site
like sugar Daddy for Me dot com listed, But after
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uncovering dozens of email exchanges from a bunch of different
men from that site in Mayor's email account, I am
shocked and I share this latest development with my buddy Evan. Yeah.
It's like escort. Yeah. I mean they say they're not prostitutes,
and listen, nothing's wrong with being a prostitute. If I
was a better looking man, I would be a prostitute.
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You know, you gotta work what you got and nothing
against prostitutes, but it is what it is. Sex for
money is prostitute, right, So Sugar Daddy for Me is
a thinly veiled way for women to find men who
will pay them for sex, which isn't too far off
from j D eight. I should point out here that
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sugar Daddy for me dot com says they're not about prostitution.
There were website for women who agree that quote. It's
just as easy to fall in love with a rich
man as a poor man. But Mayor's scammy twist at
being a sugar baby is obviously not a part of
their terms of service. She uses the email handle your
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Galway Girl to create a profile back in Galway is
actually a well known city in Ireland, and this proves
that as far back as ten years ago, Mayor was
pretending to be Irish and a lot of men in
southern California ate it up like boiled bacon and cabbage.
That's a famous dish in Ireland. According to Google, she
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had multiple men paying her a monthly fee for sex.
And the one thing all these men had in common
other than they're paying for sex, is they were all married.
They were married men who didn't, I guess want because
every time if you're a married man and you want
to have an affair, you run the risk of the
woman falling in love or telling your wife or whatever.
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This was a way to ensure that you're getting kind
of a professional sex partner who's just doing it for money.
She's not going to go to your wife. You're safe.
I start pouring over all the email exchanges between Mayor
a k A. Your Galway girl and these various married
men paying her a thousand dollars a month, sometimes more
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for sex. And the one thing they all have in
common is whenever the men try to end their sugar
Daddy arrangement, Mayor pulls one of the oldest ploys out
of her bottomless bag of tricks, extortion. Mayor flipped the
script on all of them and started blackmailing them. So
when the men grew tired of her, as men do
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grow tired of, you know whatever, the mistress becomes the
regular and it's boring. They want to end the arrangement.
And with each man, she would threaten to go to
their wives unless they paid her five thousand dollars or
four thousand dollars or three thousand dollars. I'll send all
our email exchanges to your wife. I'll come visit you
at your homes. Here's one exchange between your Galway girl
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a k A. Mayor Smith and a mayor married man
in Los Angeles who's trying to end his sugar daddy
arrangement with her. Mare flies off the handle and gets
very upset that he's dumping her, and he's trying to
calm her down while dismissing her anger as a misunderstanding.
But it's not a misunderstanding at all. He doesn't want
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to pay her for sex anymore, and that makes her furious.
I'm so sorry. One thing about email or instant messaging
is the interpretation of what I said. I don't want
to make you angry and make you feel hurt. We're
again at a crossroads, and I feel bad. But with
everything going on in my life, I can't handle anything
else stressful. I need to go. I did not misread
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the chats. I will mail them to you and you
can read them when they arrive. I printed them out
after getting your last email. You have made me very
angry if you are not going to honor your promise.
I do not know what else to say to you
but that I am sorry and I gave you the
opportunity to do the right thing. What do you mean
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mail them to me? Mail them to you postal service.
You don't have my address. Email it to me. I
do have your address. I will send it in the morning. Wow.
I cannot believe you're going to do that now it
sounds like extortion, so I guess I need to contact
legal authorities. You know you promised to pay me twice
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a month. That is a fact. I didn't make it
up or misinterpret anything. Please don't send me a copy.
I don't need to see it. When you say you're
sending it to me when you could have easily emailed
it to me. Why would I not think the worst,
especially when you say you have my address and I
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don't know how you got it. There are many women
out there who try to extore money from guys, and
I never ever thought that was you. I still don't
think it's you, but the emails got me to think
maybe I was wrong. I really do want to see you,
but I have no time now or in the very
near future. As for me giving you a thousand dollars,
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it was my understanding that it was based on seeing
each other. I want you to call the authorities. I
want what you promised me. You need to do right
by me, not treat me like I'm an extortionist or crazy.
You can admit it and take care of me like
you promised me because you are a good person, or
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we can continue to fight I want you to send
the money. End of argument. You don't have to be
a psychic like Mayor to see how this ends. All
these shakedowns come to a head in pretty much the
same way, and all of them paid her to go away,
and they're not going to go to police. Yeah, they're
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not going to go to police. But yeah, it all
just arted on the magical website sugar Daddy for me
dot com. She was a sugar baby an SB. Yeah.
I think she aged sugar baby though she's more of
like a sugar mommy, and with age comes wisdom and
bigger shakedowns, much bigger. Shortly after her last Sugar Daddy
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downians in may of Mayor steps up to the major's
and begins dating the politician. He's rich, he's famous in
Los Angeles political circles at least, and he's looking for
a little fun on the side. By the way. A
lot of Mayor's victims have questioned whether the politician really
exists at all, and I assured them as I'll assure
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you he does. Did you ever meet that guy? I
did meet the politician. I met the politician three times.
The first time I met him was at her tree
trimming party. He was there with all of the other
employees from Pacific Islands. Seemed like a nice I he
was real. The second time I we double dated, and
then the third time I met him was when he
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gave me cash after I built her out of jail.
He paid me back. And you've been very secretive about
this politician, like you've never even told me his name. No, well,
he doesn't want to be known. He specifically asked me.
He's given me information and I'm grateful, but he doesn't
want to be involved. He's married with kids, like, he
doesn't want any part because she was like a mistress, right,
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she was his mistress. Yeah. Sifting through the wreckage of
all of mere scams to find the black box and
analyze all her prolific and elaborate confidence tricks, it's a
fascinating study in abject hubris. I mean, she's got a
big fish like the politician on the hook, right, And
instead of being furtive and keeping her high dollar mark
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to herself, she does the opposite. She introduces him to
a bunch of other victims she's scamming at the same
time she's scamming him. Now, he had a relationship with her,
didn't he Oh, absolutely, Before Mayor scammed strip club manager
Sherry Cooper, she forged a deep friendship with her and
inserted the politician into Sherry's daily life. Because I was
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in the car when she was talking to them, and
she was like, don't say anything, because she did that
to a lot of people. She'd have them in the
car as witnesses and call him and he had no idea.
He's thinking he's having this illicit affair, but in reality,
she's using him in his quote power to scam people,
you know, because she's dating a politician. And it wasn't
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long before Sherry actually met and hung out with Mayor
and the politician together. Least teaser about him all the time.
I said. I used to say, if you're going to
have a fair why are you having an affair with
an old man? He's decrepit, I said, he wears his
pants up under his chest. I said, he's nasty. Mar
I said, look at his face. He's nasty. He's a
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wrinkled up old man. Why are you having any You're
a good looking woman, you're looking woman. You have an
affair with a nice young man. Only she had these
sexual exploit stories a dog, Oh my God, and all
these sex toys and all this stuff kinky sex aside.
The scams Mayor pulls on the politician are many and
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extremely elaborate. I heard about the one where she took
the money to Virginia. Mayor's email account is an intricate
roadmap for this doozy of a con. So pay attention
when they start dating. In the politician makes the mistake
of telling Mayor about a crazy mistress he had years
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before who is now living in Virginia. Months later, right
before an election, Mayor impersonates this mistress via text and
email and threatens to go public with evidence of the
politician's past affair with her. So the politician, scared and
starting to panic, leans on his current mistress Mayor for
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help and advice, and in no time, Mayor is texting
and emailing with the ex mistress. She's also pretending to
be and working out a fifty dollar hush money payment.
So the politician puts fifty dollars in cash in a
suitcase and gives it to Mayor, and Mayor promises she'll
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deliver it to the ex mistress in Virginia herself and
get a nondisclosure agreement signed, when in reality, she just
went home with her bag of cash and laid low
for a few days to trick the politician into thinking
she flew to Virginia. And she told me that she
was taking his money there too, you know, so that
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he didn't have to confront her to pay off a mistress.
So yeah, she told me that too. So at the time,
we were best friends, and I believed that she was
helping the politician paid off a mistress before in election
so she doesn't go. So he gave her a suitcase
full of cash. I believed it around the same time
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in that Mayor is supposedly flying to Virginia to pay
off the politician's ex mistress with fifty dollars cash in hand.
Mayor's co worker at Pacific Islands, Michelle Roque, is helping
Mayor deposit large amounts of cash at various A T. M.
Machines in Los Angeles on several occasions. There was one
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time on the way to work early in the morning,
she told me, oh, let's stop at the bank because
the politician gave me some money so I can deposit it.
And I tell you, this is blat of cash, and
I was holding the cash in my hand, helping her
deposited in the machine. And how much money did she
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say the politician gave her? How much did you think
you were looking at at least eight thousand dollars for
that one morning alone, and she's depositing it in the
ATM machine and you're holding the bag. I'm holding the
money while she puts them in because the bank was
still closed. It was like seven thirty year whatever time
before work. It's like, Oh, we'll just go to Chase
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and we'll just deposited in the machine. So I was
hanging onto the money. Was she feeds it? Any concerns
Michelle has about all this cash, Mayor quickly and convincingly
explains away the politician is supposedly helping Mayor get her
inheritance from her family, and he's giving her some of
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it in cash. YadA, YadA, YadA. But there's one glaring
inconsistency in mayor story about the politician that makes no
sense at all. To Michelle, I actually met him, You
didn't mean, Yes, I did. We went to McCormick, had
a happy hour, the three of us, So he was
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pretty nice. Did you know he was married. No, I
didn't until later on when he was doing a speech
on TV. Let's go watch him, right, he's going to
be on TV because he's campaigning, right, So when he
said something about I want to thank my wife, I
was like, whoa wait a minute, hold on, and then
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she insists. He goes, no, she didn't say a wife.
He said girlfriend. I said, I was watching it, Mayor,
and he said wife. Wow, that's so weird. So Mayor
tried to hide the fact that he had a wife
from you. But she told me that from the very beginning,
that you know, she's the mistress and he has a wife,
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and it's a loveless marriage, and it's an arrangement they have.
And it's funny though that the little tweaks of the
story that you got versus the story that I got.
Mayor must have had a reason to want Michelle to
believe that the politician was not married. It might have
had something to do with the fact that Mayor portrayed
herself to Michelle as a devout Catholic, as a conservative Republican,
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as a real churchgoing stickler for the Ten Commandments and
the Bible. Whatever plan Mayor had to con Michelle must
have hinged on Michelle believing all that stuff. But Sherry
Cooper got a different version of Mayor altogether. Around Sherry
Mayor portrayed herself as promiscuous and bragged about her many
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sexual conquests. Oh my God, and all these sex toys
and all this stuff. And she wanted me to go
into the sex toy industry with her, and I was
like Dad. No, Mayor must have thought Sherry, being a
strip club manager would relate more to that character as
opposed to the devout Catholic woman character. Mayor talks about
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her ability to morph into different people for the various
men she dates in that newly discovered audio recording we
heard in the last episode. I was different with Robert
than I am with I was different with Philip than
I am with Robert. Because women men adapt to the
person there with, they don't have to change totally. How
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Mayor keeps all the many variations of her one personality
straight from victim to victim and conto con is something
that still inspires up begrudging awe in me, even if
there were chinks in the armor. She was a brilliant woman.
She was in some respects, but in others not so much.
Like she gave me her email password. Yeah, that was
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a That was a mess, wasn't it. And I wasn't
the only one. She gave the nanny Bob's nanny. I
don't think you ever met her, Sarah. She gaves Sarah
was helping her set up her Amazon firestick, and she
gave Sarah her password over the phone. So it's like,
on one hand, she's running all these cons she's no,
she knows she's scamming all these people, and yet she's
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giving her victims like immunition against her. One day, Jesus
Mayor eventually tries to trick Sherry into helping her scam
the politician, but first she has to figure out a
clever way to get Sherry inside his office. It's human nature, really,
when people are in a bind, the power of suggestion
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is very, very persuasive. She took me to him for
a meeting for a consultation because the clubs I was
working for weren't paying me correctly at one of the clubs,
and I was piste off about it and I wanted
to know what my rights were, and she took me.
She took me there and I I met with him,
sat in on an appointment. She didn't go, but she
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lined it up and I had a consultation with him.
Shortly after that consultation in the politician dumps Mayor, so
she tries to convince Sherry to convince her husband Andre
to be her felony reconnaissance team. I can't believe she
wanted him to win and bug his office talking about
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your your husband, and she wanted you guys to bug
his office. What she wanted me to get him to
go to his office and put a bug in his office.
And she was going to buy the bug, and she
wanted him to go in and do it, and he
was like, fuck that, that's not gonna happen. I'm guessing
since the politician had deep pockets, and since Mayor wasn't
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going to be in his life anymore because he broke
up with her, she needed an alternative way to continue
gathering intel on him so she can continue coming up
with new and clever ways to scam him or blackmail him,
or worse ruin his career and destroy his marriage. And
Mayor didn't just involve Sherry in her quest for knowledge
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about the politician neither. She said, come on, let's go
for a drive. We literally drove to Pasadena. I said, oh,
maybe we're going to go to his house. I don't know, right.
Even before the politician dumped her, Mayor was always spying
on him, and her Pacific Islance coworker, Michelle, got taken
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along on these surveillance expeditions. More than once. We were
a parked in front of well not in front, like
across from his house, watching his house. So I said,
why don't we just come in? Because she said she
has a key to the house. That's what she said, right,
And I have no reason not to believe her. I've
met him, and you know, I know that they're going out.
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And she said, no, I can't do that because supposedly
the sun was home. So we camped out outside. I
don't know what we're waiting for. Though you never saw him.
I never saw him come out of the house. No.
I went with her twice, just camping out of outside
of the house. And I don't understand why. In Mayor's
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apparent desperation to get the politician back into her life
after he dumps her, she turns to an unusual place
for help. Mayor practiced witchcraft, yes and you witnessed that
Mayor's psychic client and one time friend, Michelle Thompson DaCosta,
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the one whose name Mayor allegedly used, along with her
social Security number to apply for credit card and charge up,
saw a side of Mayor that very few people did
during their brief and tumultuous friendship. What did you see?
What did you witness? Okay, so yeah, Mary loves to
do witchcraft with me. I hated to kind of be
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a part of her witchcraft because she's so negative and
you know, I mean, if you believe any sort of
spiritual world or any of that, you know, what you
put out you get back, right, And so honestly, I
would just sit there. But when she would try to
work on things that were positive, I would definitely be
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a part of that. But she would do love spells,
she would do binding spells. She would do binding spells
on the politician. So like a lot of times, after
her day's worth of work, when she would do things
for clients, that's when she would do her work. So
before we would have our wine for the night or whatever,
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she would do her witchcraft for her clients because you
could pay for that if you paid her to cast spells.
They did her casting the spell. So she used a
lot of chicken wings. Did you hear about that? The
chicken wings. She used a lot of chicken wings. She
would tie the chicken wings. She would use a lot
of dragons blood, and then she would do I don't remember,
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but you're still in the same complex, right. If you
go out to that tree in the middle, you will
find a ship ton of chicken wings. She would throw
chicken wings. No, she would dig up and she would
bury the chicken wings and they would be tied and
use dragon blood on them. And so dragon blood is
like a oil, so it's not actually dragons blood clear like,
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but it's an oil. And so she would use it,
and she would come up with her own stuff. I
believe I've never seen this stuff anywhere else, but that's
where she would bury them. If you go out to
that tree, the bones might still be there. And she
would do it a lot. So she would go to
food for lesson, buy like a big pack of chicken,
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and we would go to like Bultanicus and go by
like the red candles, penis shaped candles. And you can
do a spell and carve a man's name for a
woman into that, and she would do that stuff for
some of her clients, so I saw her do it.
Definitely a lot of that her binding spells. I don't
know if those work in terms of binding a man
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to a woman or whatever. But chicken wings were like
her number one. Penis candles are like number two. But
all the chicken wings and all the penis candles that
Mayor used to cast binding spells for her and the
politician to get back together didn't work. In the end.
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The politician didn't leave Mayor because she scammed him. He
didn't even know she scammed him until I told him.
The politician left Mayor for the same reason a lot
of men jettison relationships. He just wasn't attracted to her anymore.
His last email to her, I'm sure must have cut
like a knife and wounded her deeply. I cringed when
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I first read it. He basically says, the last time
we fucked, I had to use viagra, Like, I'm not
attracted to you anymore. But that's because she kept getting crazy. Yeah,
she was a turn off. And that's how honestly, that's
what it was like for our friendship, Because at the end,
I was like I'm so tired of you being a
psycho bitch. It's exhausting. Hearing Michelle talk about Mayor being
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a psycho bitch is kind of weird, as I never
saw that side of her. To me, Mayor was always
so kind and friendly and giving, and that's why I
liked her. That's why I loved her. I know now
that Mayor had a completely different personality for every victim
she scammed. This is the thing. We all rationalize things
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in our head, whether they're right or wrong. We all
have our own thought process. At this point, I'm almost
a year into my investigation. Police haven't filed any charges,
but my blog is still active and every time I
find a new victim, I post a new update, and
more victims get in touch with me. One day, I
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get a call from one of Mayor's childhood friends, who
knew her as Mary Anne Elizabeth Andel and Bangor Maine
back in the late nineties seventies. It's so bizarre. I
knew her in a junior hut when I met her.
How old were you at that point? All Jenn Westwood
spends a handful of years living close by a pre
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adolescent Mayor Smith. We started shinging out in when we
got to high school because I moved to the other
side of town up that really matters, so I wasn't
able to like watch to your house anymore or whatever.
Something interesting you mentioned in your email to me was
that you read about all her her car artistry, and
you said, you're not surprised based on the stuff you
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guys used to talk about or she used to talk about. Well,
the Austen was is that we went to I wo
to her house. I played in the neighborhood with her,
and then I went to her house. She told me
which one was the house, but then there was one
house that went to it and we went in, and
I thought this was odd. She had me go. She
showed me her sister's room and it was a great,
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big bedroom and I was like, wow, this is you know,
Christie room, you know. And her sister's name was Jenny,
she said, and it was she had this crap on
the wall, but that j E n n us on it,
and he wanted me to put on. She's like, here,
put my sister's close up and pose underneath the sign
and old pretended Jona, what and how old were you
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at this point? Do you remember, roughly twelve years and
I was like, I thought that was kind of odd.
I actually have the picture somewhere. Oh my god, I
hope you can find stay and I remember to think
you get the time, you know, I mean, I said,
I was really uncomfortable and I thought it was weird, like,
why would she want me to pose in your sister's
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room and call it my room? How certain are you
that was in fact her own? Well? You know now
I'm trying to think that maybe it wasn't, because I
remember we went in, nobody was home. There was some
kids in the house. We didn't know who they were,
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so I just thought they were friends of her brother
and sisters. Yeah, I think that was one of one
of her earlier scamps, that she lived in the big house.
It seemed odd to me the whole experience, but I
didn't really know why, you know, back then. But putting
it together now, that probably wasn't even her house. Yeah
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I don't think it was. Oh, I mean, it's just
so bizarre. Maybe she was, you know, honing her craft
from way back then exactly exactly, And at first I
just thought maybe she's evil, But now talking to you,
it sounds like is it some kind of mental psychosis
or something, because for a twelve year old to be
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engaging in this kind of stuff is crazy. What was
the purpose of leaving you to believe that was her house?
Did she want something from you? Did she give you
anything or ask you for anything? Ever? No? No, I think, well,
it sounds like, of course I haven't been in touch
with her, and think it sounds like she obviously had
had some sort of issues with you, like maybe not
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like she wants to be wealthy. She wants people to
think she's wealthy, so maybe she wanted me to think
she was. It appears that even at twelve years old,
Mayor is practicing her manipulation skills. We'll talk again soon.
If anything else comes to you, to email me or
text me or call me. Let me now. Okay, sounds good,
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Thank you so much. I have a great night you two.
In the days and weeks after talking to Mayor's childhood friend, Jen,
my blog continues to unearth more and more of Mayor's
victims from all over the country. A couple of New
York real estate investors contact me, saying Mayor scam them
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out of sixty thou dollars by tricking them into believing
her daughter needed emergency surgery. We thought she died without it,
and we wired the cash immediately. A woman in Tennessee
contacts me saying Mayor tricked her boss out of thousands
using a fraudulent business she started there called Celtic Catering.
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She disappeared right after she got the money. I had
no idea where she was hiding until I found your blog.
I learned Mayor also tricked to West Palm Beach housewife
out of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars using a
psychic scam. My husband wanted to divorce me over it.
Even my own landlord informs me that Mayor tricked them
out of paying rent for five months by saying she
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had cancer and was in the hospital getting chemo. Who
lies about having cancer, Mayor, of course, and it was
hardly the first time she was battling cancer, and her
cancer had come back, and that she thought it was
in remission. She was in the hospital. That's why I
couldn't reach her for a couple of days. Test catch
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A Tory, the founder and CEO of Global Women's Empowerment Network,
was concerned for her ailing friend Mayor and wanted to
help in any way she could. And I said, my gosh,
what hospital? She said in Pasadena. She didn't name the hospital,
she just said in Pasadena. And I said, well, I
had the afternoon off. Can I bring you some magazines,
some ice cream, some food that you might want to
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have because the food is horrible there? No, no, no, no, no,
she yelled at me. She started a bite at me. No, no,
I'm going to be released today. And I said, okay.
So I just kind of left it alone, and then
I called a couple of days later to check in,
or the next day to check in. She said, why
do you keep calling me? I'm like, okay, no, just
so she tells you she has cancer, she's in the hospital,
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and then she's shouting at you, why do you keep
calling me? Looking back, Mayor was probably upset with tests
because if Tess had gone to the hospital, the jig
would have been up. She didn't have cancer. Yeah, but
she did have a cancer story, and it was one
of a hundred stories Mayor convincingly told to scam people
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in Los Angeles, in other cities, in other states, indeed,
than in other countries. Hello, I'm trying to reach it.
Mr Jonathan Walton. I got a call from a detective
in Northern Ireland found my blog. You've been looking for
Marian Smith for ten years. She lived in Northern Ireland.
I had no idea. I thought the whole Irish thing
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was a lie tenure. That's a long time to be
looking for someone. So she must have really like did
some damage. Oh she did. She's left a trail of
devastation in the ruined many lights. Could Mayor Smith be
Irish after all? Next time on Queen of the Con.
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There was a Christmas when my kids were young. We're
living in Belfast. Mayor Smith uses her own daughter in
multiple scams. I used to afforde signatures on papers and
pisces off the wrong kind of people. Open the door
and here's for Irish speaking mobsters standing with automatic as
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Certain portions of what you're about to hear have been
dramatized based on real life events, eyewitness accounts, and court records.
When I find out my best friend is scamming me,
I decided to start a blog. I know there must
be others out there, others I should warn, But I
didn't know I'd be rescuing an unsuspecting Newport Beach engineer
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from losing millions of dollars. Oh, she was trying to
get ahold of his property, both of them. I don't
just stop with the blog. I bust her scamming techniques
for impersonating celebrities wide open. She would set up Google
accounts and phone numbers and tag Jennifer Aniston into it
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so it would come up on her phone or email
that jen was calling, or JEM was emailing, or Jem
was texting. I also exploit the fact that Mayor Smith
carelessly shares really private information with victims she's scamming. She
gave you her email password. Why because she couldn't figure
out how to use a goddamn fire stick for someone
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so smart and conniving. Pretty dumb move, right. I use
that intel to get into her email account and uncover
evidence of dozens of different scams she's pulling. I also
uncover something else, So what's sugar Daddy for Me dot com?
Sugar daddies pay sugar babies, and she had multiple men
paying her a monthly fee for sex. I'm Jonathan Walton
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and this is Queen of the Con Episode five. The
Politician gotta admit I had no idea a dating site
like sugar Daddy for Me dot com listed, But after
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uncovering dozens of email exchanges from a bunch of different
men from that site in Mayor's email account, I am
shocked and I share this latest development with my buddy Evan. Yeah.
It's like escort. Yeah. I mean they say they're not prostitutes,
and listen, nothing's wrong with being a prostitute. If I
was a better looking man, I would be a prostitute.
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You know, you gotta work what you got and nothing
against prostitutes, but it is what it is. Sex for
money is prostitute, right, So Sugar Daddy for Me is
a thinly veiled way for women to find men who
will pay them for sex, which isn't too far off
from j D eight. I should point out here that
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sugar Daddy for me dot com says they're not about prostitution.
There were website for women who agree that quote. It's
just as easy to fall in love with a rich
man as a poor man. But Mayor's scammy twist at
being a sugar baby is obviously not a part of
their terms of service. She uses the email handle your
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Galway Girl to create a profile back in Galway is
actually a well known city in Ireland, and this proves
that as far back as ten years ago, Mayor was
pretending to be Irish and a lot of men in
southern California ate it up like boiled bacon and cabbage.
That's a famous dish in Ireland. According to Google, she
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had multiple men paying her a monthly fee for sex.
And the one thing all these men had in common
other than they're paying for sex, is they were all married.
They were married men who didn't, I guess want because
every time if you're a married man and you want
to have an affair, you run the risk of the
woman falling in love or telling your wife or whatever.
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This was a way to ensure that you're getting kind
of a professional sex partner who's just doing it for money.
She's not going to go to your wife. You're safe.
I start pouring over all the email exchanges between Mayor
a k A. Your Galway girl and these various married
men paying her a thousand dollars a month, sometimes more
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for sex. And the one thing they all have in
common is whenever the men try to end their sugar
Daddy arrangement, Mayor pulls one of the oldest ploys out
of her bottomless bag of tricks, extortion. Mayor flipped the
script on all of them and started blackmailing them. So
when the men grew tired of her, as men do
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grow tired of, you know whatever, the mistress becomes the
regular and it's boring. They want to end the arrangement.
And with each man, she would threaten to go to
their wives unless they paid her five thousand dollars or
four thousand dollars or three thousand dollars. I'll send all
our email exchanges to your wife. I'll come visit you
at your homes. Here's one exchange between your Galway girl
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a k A. Mayor Smith and a mayor married man
in Los Angeles who's trying to end his sugar daddy
arrangement with her. Mare flies off the handle and gets
very upset that he's dumping her, and he's trying to
calm her down while dismissing her anger as a misunderstanding.
But it's not a misunderstanding at all. He doesn't want
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to pay her for sex anymore, and that makes her furious.
I'm so sorry. One thing about email or instant messaging
is the interpretation of what I said. I don't want
to make you angry and make you feel hurt. We're
again at a crossroads, and I feel bad. But with
everything going on in my life, I can't handle anything
else stressful. I need to go. I did not misread
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the chats. I will mail them to you and you
can read them when they arrive. I printed them out
after getting your last email. You have made me very
angry if you are not going to honor your promise.
I do not know what else to say to you
but that I am sorry and I gave you the
opportunity to do the right thing. What do you mean
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mail them to me? Mail them to you postal service.
You don't have my address. Email it to me. I
do have your address. I will send it in the morning. Wow.
I cannot believe you're going to do that now it
sounds like extortion, so I guess I need to contact
legal authorities. You know you promised to pay me twice
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a month. That is a fact. I didn't make it
up or misinterpret anything. Please don't send me a copy.
I don't need to see it. When you say you're
sending it to me when you could have easily emailed
it to me. Why would I not think the worst,
especially when you say you have my address and I
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don't know how you got it. There are many women
out there who try to extore money from guys, and
I never ever thought that was you. I still don't
think it's you, but the emails got me to think
maybe I was wrong. I really do want to see you,
but I have no time now or in the very
near future. As for me giving you a thousand dollars,
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it was my understanding that it was based on seeing
each other. I want you to call the authorities. I
want what you promised me. You need to do right
by me, not treat me like I'm an extortionist or crazy.
You can admit it and take care of me like
you promised me because you are a good person, or
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we can continue to fight I want you to send
the money. End of argument. You don't have to be
a psychic like Mayor to see how this ends. All
these shakedowns come to a head in pretty much the
same way, and all of them paid her to go away,
and they're not going to go to police. Yeah, they're
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not going to go to police. But yeah, it all
just arted on the magical website sugar Daddy for me
dot com. She was a sugar baby an SB. Yeah.
I think she aged sugar baby though she's more of
like a sugar mommy, and with age comes wisdom and
bigger shakedowns, much bigger. Shortly after her last Sugar Daddy
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downians in may of Mayor steps up to the major's
and begins dating the politician. He's rich, he's famous in
Los Angeles political circles at least, and he's looking for
a little fun on the side. By the way. A
lot of Mayor's victims have questioned whether the politician really
exists at all, and I assured them as I'll assure
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you he does. Did you ever meet that guy? I
did meet the politician. I met the politician three times.
The first time I met him was at her tree
trimming party. He was there with all of the other
employees from Pacific Islands. Seemed like a nice I he
was real. The second time I we double dated, and
then the third time I met him was when he
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gave me cash after I built her out of jail.
He paid me back. And you've been very secretive about
this politician, like you've never even told me his name. No, well,
he doesn't want to be known. He specifically asked me.
He's given me information and I'm grateful, but he doesn't
want to be involved. He's married with kids, like, he
doesn't want any part because she was like a mistress, right,
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she was his mistress. Yeah. Sifting through the wreckage of
all of mere scams to find the black box and
analyze all her prolific and elaborate confidence tricks, it's a
fascinating study in abject hubris. I mean, she's got a
big fish like the politician on the hook, right, And
instead of being furtive and keeping her high dollar mark
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to herself, she does the opposite. She introduces him to
a bunch of other victims she's scamming at the same
time she's scamming him. Now, he had a relationship with her,
didn't he Oh, absolutely, Before Mayor scammed strip club manager
Sherry Cooper, she forged a deep friendship with her and
inserted the politician into Sherry's daily life. Because I was
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in the car when she was talking to them, and
she was like, don't say anything, because she did that
to a lot of people. She'd have them in the
car as witnesses and call him and he had no idea.
He's thinking he's having this illicit affair, but in reality,
she's using him in his quote power to scam people,
you know, because she's dating a politician. And it wasn't
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long before Sherry actually met and hung out with Mayor
and the politician together. Least teaser about him all the time.
I said. I used to say, if you're going to
have a fair why are you having an affair with
an old man? He's decrepit, I said, he wears his
pants up under his chest. I said, he's nasty. Mar
I said, look at his face. He's nasty. He's a
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wrinkled up old man. Why are you having any You're
a good looking woman, you're looking woman. You have an
affair with a nice young man. Only she had these
sexual exploit stories a dog, Oh my God, and all
these sex toys and all this stuff kinky sex aside.
The scams Mayor pulls on the politician are many and
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extremely elaborate. I heard about the one where she took
the money to Virginia. Mayor's email account is an intricate
roadmap for this doozy of a con. So pay attention
when they start dating. In the politician makes the mistake
of telling Mayor about a crazy mistress he had years
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before who is now living in Virginia. Months later, right
before an election, Mayor impersonates this mistress via text and
email and threatens to go public with evidence of the
politician's past affair with her. So the politician, scared and
starting to panic, leans on his current mistress Mayor for
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help and advice, and in no time, Mayor is texting
and emailing with the ex mistress. She's also pretending to
be and working out a fifty dollar hush money payment.
So the politician puts fifty dollars in cash in a
suitcase and gives it to Mayor, and Mayor promises she'll
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deliver it to the ex mistress in Virginia herself and
get a nondisclosure agreement signed, when in reality, she just
went home with her bag of cash and laid low
for a few days to trick the politician into thinking
she flew to Virginia. And she told me that she
was taking his money there too, you know, so that
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he didn't have to confront her to pay off a mistress.
So yeah, she told me that too. So at the time,
we were best friends, and I believed that she was
helping the politician paid off a mistress before in election
so she doesn't go. So he gave her a suitcase
full of cash. I believed it around the same time
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in that Mayor is supposedly flying to Virginia to pay
off the politician's ex mistress with fifty dollars cash in hand.
Mayor's co worker at Pacific Islands, Michelle Roque, is helping
Mayor deposit large amounts of cash at various A T. M.
Machines in Los Angeles on several occasions. There was one
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time on the way to work early in the morning,
she told me, oh, let's stop at the bank because
the politician gave me some money so I can deposit it.
And I tell you, this is blat of cash, and
I was holding the cash in my hand, helping her
deposited in the machine. And how much money did she
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say the politician gave her? How much did you think
you were looking at at least eight thousand dollars for
that one morning alone, and she's depositing it in the
ATM machine and you're holding the bag. I'm holding the
money while she puts them in because the bank was
still closed. It was like seven thirty year whatever time
before work. It's like, Oh, we'll just go to Chase
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and we'll just deposited in the machine. So I was
hanging onto the money. Was she feeds it? Any concerns
Michelle has about all this cash, Mayor quickly and convincingly
explains away the politician is supposedly helping Mayor get her
inheritance from her family, and he's giving her some of
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it in cash. YadA, YadA, YadA. But there's one glaring
inconsistency in mayor story about the politician that makes no
sense at all. To Michelle, I actually met him, You
didn't mean, Yes, I did. We went to McCormick, had
a happy hour, the three of us, So he was
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pretty nice. Did you know he was married. No, I
didn't until later on when he was doing a speech
on TV. Let's go watch him, right, he's going to
be on TV because he's campaigning, right, So when he
said something about I want to thank my wife, I
was like, whoa wait a minute, hold on, and then
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she insists. He goes, no, she didn't say a wife.
He said girlfriend. I said, I was watching it, Mayor,
and he said wife. Wow, that's so weird. So Mayor
tried to hide the fact that he had a wife
from you. But she told me that from the very beginning,
that you know, she's the mistress and he has a wife,
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and it's a loveless marriage, and it's an arrangement they have.
And it's funny though that the little tweaks of the
story that you got versus the story that I got.
Mayor must have had a reason to want Michelle to
believe that the politician was not married. It might have
had something to do with the fact that Mayor portrayed
herself to Michelle as a devout Catholic, as a conservative Republican,
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as a real churchgoing stickler for the Ten Commandments and
the Bible. Whatever plan Mayor had to con Michelle must
have hinged on Michelle believing all that stuff. But Sherry
Cooper got a different version of Mayor altogether. Around Sherry
Mayor portrayed herself as promiscuous and bragged about her many
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sexual conquests. Oh my God, and all these sex toys
and all this stuff. And she wanted me to go
into the sex toy industry with her, and I was
like Dad. No, Mayor must have thought Sherry, being a
strip club manager would relate more to that character as
opposed to the devout Catholic woman character. Mayor talks about
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her ability to morph into different people for the various
men she dates in that newly discovered audio recording we
heard in the last episode. I was different with Robert
than I am with I was different with Philip than
I am with Robert. Because women men adapt to the
person there with, they don't have to change totally. How
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Mayor keeps all the many variations of her one personality
straight from victim to victim and conto con is something
that still inspires up begrudging awe in me, even if
there were chinks in the armor. She was a brilliant woman.
She was in some respects, but in others not so much.
Like she gave me her email password. Yeah, that was
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a That was a mess, wasn't it. And I wasn't
the only one. She gave the nanny Bob's nanny. I
don't think you ever met her, Sarah. She gaves Sarah
was helping her set up her Amazon firestick, and she
gave Sarah her password over the phone. So it's like,
on one hand, she's running all these cons she's no,
she knows she's scamming all these people, and yet she's
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giving her victims like immunition against her. One day, Jesus
Mayor eventually tries to trick Sherry into helping her scam
the politician, but first she has to figure out a
clever way to get Sherry inside his office. It's human nature, really,
when people are in a bind, the power of suggestion
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is very, very persuasive. She took me to him for
a meeting for a consultation because the clubs I was
working for weren't paying me correctly at one of the clubs,
and I was piste off about it and I wanted
to know what my rights were, and she took me.
She took me there and I I met with him,
sat in on an appointment. She didn't go, but she
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lined it up and I had a consultation with him.
Shortly after that consultation in the politician dumps Mayor, so
she tries to convince Sherry to convince her husband Andre
to be her felony reconnaissance team. I can't believe she
wanted him to win and bug his office talking about
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your your husband, and she wanted you guys to bug
his office. What she wanted me to get him to
go to his office and put a bug in his office.
And she was going to buy the bug, and she
wanted him to go in and do it, and he
was like, fuck that, that's not gonna happen. I'm guessing
since the politician had deep pockets, and since Mayor wasn't
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going to be in his life anymore because he broke
up with her, she needed an alternative way to continue
gathering intel on him so she can continue coming up
with new and clever ways to scam him or blackmail him,
or worse ruin his career and destroy his marriage. And
Mayor didn't just involve Sherry in her quest for knowledge
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about the politician neither. She said, come on, let's go
for a drive. We literally drove to Pasadena. I said, oh,
maybe we're going to go to his house. I don't know, right.
Even before the politician dumped her, Mayor was always spying
on him, and her Pacific Islance coworker, Michelle, got taken
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along on these surveillance expeditions. More than once. We were
a parked in front of well not in front, like
across from his house, watching his house. So I said,
why don't we just come in? Because she said she
has a key to the house. That's what she said, right,
And I have no reason not to believe her. I've
met him, and you know, I know that they're going out.
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And she said, no, I can't do that because supposedly
the sun was home. So we camped out outside. I
don't know what we're waiting for. Though you never saw him.
I never saw him come out of the house. No.
I went with her twice, just camping out of outside
of the house. And I don't understand why. In Mayor's
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apparent desperation to get the politician back into her life
after he dumps her, she turns to an unusual place
for help. Mayor practiced witchcraft, yes and you witnessed that
Mayor's psychic client and one time friend, Michelle Thompson DaCosta,
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the one whose name Mayor allegedly used, along with her
social Security number to apply for credit card and charge up,
saw a side of Mayor that very few people did
during their brief and tumultuous friendship. What did you see?
What did you witness? Okay, so yeah, Mary loves to
do witchcraft with me. I hated to kind of be
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a part of her witchcraft because she's so negative and
you know, I mean, if you believe any sort of
spiritual world or any of that, you know, what you
put out you get back, right, And so honestly, I
would just sit there. But when she would try to
work on things that were positive, I would definitely be
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a part of that. But she would do love spells,
she would do binding spells. She would do binding spells
on the politician. So like a lot of times, after
her day's worth of work, when she would do things
for clients, that's when she would do her work. So
before we would have our wine for the night or whatever,
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she would do her witchcraft for her clients because you
could pay for that if you paid her to cast spells.
They did her casting the spell. So she used a
lot of chicken wings. Did you hear about that? The
chicken wings. She used a lot of chicken wings. She
would tie the chicken wings. She would use a lot
of dragons blood, and then she would do I don't remember,
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but you're still in the same complex, right. If you
go out to that tree in the middle, you will
find a ship ton of chicken wings. She would throw
chicken wings. No, she would dig up and she would
bury the chicken wings and they would be tied and
use dragon blood on them. And so dragon blood is
like a oil, so it's not actually dragons blood clear like,
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but it's an oil. And so she would use it,
and she would come up with her own stuff. I
believe I've never seen this stuff anywhere else, but that's
where she would bury them. If you go out to
that tree, the bones might still be there. And she
would do it a lot. So she would go to
food for lesson, buy like a big pack of chicken,
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and we would go to like Bultanicus and go by
like the red candles, penis shaped candles. And you can
do a spell and carve a man's name for a
woman into that, and she would do that stuff for
some of her clients, so I saw her do it.
Definitely a lot of that her binding spells. I don't
know if those work in terms of binding a man
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to a woman or whatever. But chicken wings were like
her number one. Penis candles are like number two. But
all the chicken wings and all the penis candles that
Mayor used to cast binding spells for her and the
politician to get back together didn't work. In the end.
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The politician didn't leave Mayor because she scammed him. He
didn't even know she scammed him until I told him.
The politician left Mayor for the same reason a lot
of men jettison relationships. He just wasn't attracted to her anymore.
His last email to her, I'm sure must have cut
like a knife and wounded her deeply. I cringed when
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I first read it. He basically says, the last time
we fucked, I had to use viagra, Like, I'm not
attracted to you anymore. But that's because she kept getting crazy. Yeah,
she was a turn off. And that's how honestly, that's
what it was like for our friendship, Because at the end,
I was like I'm so tired of you being a
psycho bitch. It's exhausting. Hearing Michelle talk about Mayor being
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a psycho bitch is kind of weird, as I never
saw that side of her. To me, Mayor was always
so kind and friendly and giving, and that's why I
liked her. That's why I loved her. I know now
that Mayor had a completely different personality for every victim
she scammed. This is the thing. We all rationalize things
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in our head, whether they're right or wrong. We all
have our own thought process. At this point, I'm almost
a year into my investigation. Police haven't filed any charges,
but my blog is still active and every time I
find a new victim, I post a new update, and
more victims get in touch with me. One day, I
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get a call from one of Mayor's childhood friends, who
knew her as Mary Anne Elizabeth Andel and Bangor Maine
back in the late nineties seventies. It's so bizarre. I
knew her in a junior hut when I met her.
How old were you at that point? All Jenn Westwood
spends a handful of years living close by a pre
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adolescent Mayor Smith. We started shinging out in when we
got to high school because I moved to the other
side of town up that really matters, so I wasn't
able to like watch to your house anymore or whatever.
Something interesting you mentioned in your email to me was
that you read about all her her car artistry, and
you said, you're not surprised based on the stuff you
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guys used to talk about or she used to talk about. Well,
the Austen was is that we went to I wo
to her house. I played in the neighborhood with her,
and then I went to her house. She told me
which one was the house, but then there was one
house that went to it and we went in, and
I thought this was odd. She had me go. She
showed me her sister's room and it was a great,
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big bedroom and I was like, wow, this is you know,
Christie room, you know. And her sister's name was Jenny,
she said, and it was she had this crap on
the wall, but that j E n n us on it,
and he wanted me to put on. She's like, here,
put my sister's close up and pose underneath the sign
and old pretended Jona, what and how old were you
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at this point? Do you remember, roughly twelve years and
I was like, I thought that was kind of odd.
I actually have the picture somewhere. Oh my god, I
hope you can find stay and I remember to think
you get the time, you know, I mean, I said,
I was really uncomfortable and I thought it was weird, like,
why would she want me to pose in your sister's
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room and call it my room? How certain are you
that was in fact her own? Well? You know now
I'm trying to think that maybe it wasn't, because I
remember we went in, nobody was home. There was some
kids in the house. We didn't know who they were,
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so I just thought they were friends of her brother
and sisters. Yeah, I think that was one of one
of her earlier scamps, that she lived in the big house.
It seemed odd to me the whole experience, but I
didn't really know why, you know, back then. But putting
it together now, that probably wasn't even her house. Yeah
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I don't think it was. Oh, I mean, it's just
so bizarre. Maybe she was, you know, honing her craft
from way back then exactly exactly, And at first I
just thought maybe she's evil, But now talking to you,
it sounds like is it some kind of mental psychosis
or something, because for a twelve year old to be
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engaging in this kind of stuff is crazy. What was
the purpose of leaving you to believe that was her house?
Did she want something from you? Did she give you
anything or ask you for anything? Ever? No? No, I think, well,
it sounds like, of course I haven't been in touch
with her, and think it sounds like she obviously had
had some sort of issues with you, like maybe not
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like she wants to be wealthy. She wants people to
think she's wealthy, so maybe she wanted me to think
she was. It appears that even at twelve years old,
Mayor is practicing her manipulation skills. We'll talk again soon.
If anything else comes to you, to email me or
text me or call me. Let me now. Okay, sounds good,
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Thank you so much. I have a great night you two.
In the days and weeks after talking to Mayor's childhood friend, Jen,
my blog continues to unearth more and more of Mayor's
victims from all over the country. A couple of New
York real estate investors contact me, saying Mayor scam them
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out of sixty thou dollars by tricking them into believing
her daughter needed emergency surgery. We thought she died without it,
and we wired the cash immediately. A woman in Tennessee
contacts me saying Mayor tricked her boss out of thousands
using a fraudulent business she started there called Celtic Catering.
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She disappeared right after she got the money. I had
no idea where she was hiding until I found your blog.
I learned Mayor also tricked to West Palm Beach housewife
out of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars using a
psychic scam. My husband wanted to divorce me over it.
Even my own landlord informs me that Mayor tricked them
out of paying rent for five months by saying she
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had cancer and was in the hospital getting chemo. Who
lies about having cancer, Mayor, of course, and it was
hardly the first time she was battling cancer, and her
cancer had come back, and that she thought it was
in remission. She was in the hospital. That's why I
couldn't reach her for a couple of days. Test catch
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A Tory, the founder and CEO of Global Women's Empowerment Network,
was concerned for her ailing friend Mayor and wanted to
help in any way she could. And I said, my gosh,
what hospital? She said in Pasadena. She didn't name the hospital,
she just said in Pasadena. And I said, well, I
had the afternoon off. Can I bring you some magazines,
some ice cream, some food that you might want to
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have because the food is horrible there? No, no, no, no, no,
she yelled at me. She started a bite at me. No, no,
I'm going to be released today. And I said, okay.
So I just kind of left it alone, and then
I called a couple of days later to check in,
or the next day to check in. She said, why
do you keep calling me? I'm like, okay, no, just
so she tells you she has cancer, she's in the hospital,
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and then she's shouting at you, why do you keep
calling me? Looking back, Mayor was probably upset with tests
because if Tess had gone to the hospital, the jig
would have been up. She didn't have cancer. Yeah, but
she did have a cancer story, and it was one
of a hundred stories Mayor convincingly told to scam people
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in Los Angeles, in other cities, in other states, indeed,
than in other countries. Hello, I'm trying to reach it.
Mr Jonathan Walton. I got a call from a detective
in Northern Ireland found my blog. You've been looking for
Marian Smith for ten years. She lived in Northern Ireland.
I had no idea. I thought the whole Irish thing
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was a lie tenure. That's a long time to be
looking for someone. So she must have really like did
some damage. Oh she did. She's left a trail of
devastation in the ruined many lights. Could Mayor Smith be
Irish after all? Next time on Queen of the Con.
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There was a Christmas when my kids were young. We're
living in Belfast. Mayor Smith uses her own daughter in
multiple scams. I used to afforde signatures on papers and
pisces off the wrong kind of people. Open the door
and here's for Irish speaking mobsters standing with automatic as
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all rifles. Marian. For exclusive photos and other bonus material,
follow at Queen of the Con on Instagram and if
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wherever you get your podcasts. Queen of the Con The
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Irish Heiress is a production of a y R Media
and I Heart Radio hosted by Me Jonathan Walton. Executive
producers Jonathan Walton for Jonathan Walton Productions and Liza Rosen
for A y R Media. Written by Jonathan Walton, Consulting
producer Evan Goldstein, Senior Associate producer Eric Newman. Sound designed
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by Baked ZD Media, mixed and mastered by Elliott Herman.
Audio engineering by Elliott Herman. Studio engineering by Chris McMasters.
Voice acting performed by Brian Clovis, Tim Cunningham, Eileen Faxus,
Friend Lozano, Amy Phillips, and David Teidelbaum. Legal counsel for
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A y R Media. Gianni Douglas Executive producer for I
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