These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a fortune in the fortune-telling business.
Meet the Johns family, one of Manhattan's most prominent Gypsy families. In each episode of this new series, cameras document their efforts to preserve Gypsy customs amid the vices of the city, while upholding their family's power in the community and expanding their psychic show empire. Go inside Gypsy culture for the first time for an intimite portrayal of a family trying to capture their version of the American dream. (Source: National Geographic Channel)
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Rivals at War
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p.s the johns family has never worked a honest day for a honest day paycheck in their lifetime they have no other skills but for their psychic wifes to be predators of the gadjo american people of new york city those psychics shops pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent on others peoples leases that new york city code enforcement needs to investigate hardly ever any psychic lisences is issued in new york city majority is illegal i hope the state attourney general of new york wil investigate the johns family and their criminal activity of the 5 brothers and their families that will really make a news story
I am a gypsy and I would like to comment about the Johns on American Gypsies. True fact. The New York Gyspies do not speak for all the gypies in the Unites States. True Facts of the Johns in New York City. They pay no little or no federal tax to the internal revenue. They have never sent any of there chilern to public school. Even the adults have little education. The psychics shops that they live in new york city are not zoned to live and do buisness inn. They are breaking NYC code enfrocement laws. They have mutiple drivers licenses and fake social security cards. The psychics gypsys live on others people gift cards as they do readings. On the ''Gadjo'' gift cars and credit cards. They have safe deposit boxes in NYC and Connecticut withs hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to hide from the IRS. These are genuine scammers. And flese the people of NYC. And they have connections that they bribe NYC public officals. And they brag to other gypsy's that they have power and infulance with the police, and dectetives and other public officals all the time. Thats how they get away with all the scams. They bribe officals to get out of scams. Also they put there money buying large ammounts of gold and jelwerly. Example is gold and diamonds. They keep in there psychics shops. They dont trust any american ''gadjo'' ways. National Geographic should be ashamed of putting con artisits on public T.V. with out no legtimit leg to stand on. And without checking any of the Johns background. These people are guenine thiefes in the knight. A conncerd gypsy.