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Associated Press, St. Louis — A nonprofit pro-business organization has fired a longtime consultant who made $1.4 million advising it on leadership and other matters but claimed to be a psychic and clairvoyant.

Richard Fleming, chief of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, told media outlets this week that the economic-development organization severed its seven-year ties with David Levin after learning Levin had begun melding his psychic beliefs with his consulting.

Fleming said that while RCGA officials knew 64-year-old Levin was "spiritual," word of his claims to have supernatural powers became a credibility issue.

In background information it supplied to The Associated Press, the RCGA said it parted ways with Levin on Sunday "due to consultant's decision to present his work and firm in ways inconsistent with RCGA's role in the St. Louis community."

Fleming did not return telephone messages Thursday, and Levin did not respond to telephone and e-mailed requests for an interview.

Levin's claims of being clairvoyant were made public when the Colorado man alleged in the September editions of the British magazine Prediction that he, his wife and their 15-year-old son all are psychic.

According to the article, titled "A Psychic Family," Levin launched a consulting business for "high-profile business executives" in 1982. Fleming, the story suggests, met Levin in 1993, not long before Fleming was tapped in August 1994 as the RCGA's president and chief executive.

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