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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (7212)	7/9/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: Mr.Manners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12754

Worker Makes $118,000 In 'Psychic Stock' Calls LOS ANGELES (Rooters) - A janitor in the Los Angeles County Mental Health Department pleaded guilty Thursday to making 2,600 calls to a ''Psychic Stock Hotline'' on county phones over a two-year period, racking up $118,000 in charges, prosecutors said. DSGumby, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of grand theft on the eve of his trial for 'Wild & Reckless Pooting' in Los Angeles Superior Court. Deputy District Attorney Robert Dver said Gumby will be sentenced under a plea agreement to 30 days in jail - in solitary - and ordered to pay restitution toward the phone charges at a hearing on July 16. He will also be placed on five years probation. Dver said Gumby made most of his calls to the hotline on nights and weekends between June 1996 and November 1998, using a computer to bypass a county block on such numbers. He then claimed to be a Penny Stock Pro, selling his info routinely to Nasty Nathanc, and Foxy. A routine audit picked up the calls and investigators traced them back to the defendant's work area,"the pit," Dver said.