GUILTY NY - Anna Delvey, aka Anna Sorokin, Fake German Heiress Scammed $275K from Banks, Hotels, Friends

[cybervampira]

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin cries in court again | Daily Mail Online

'This is the last day we're playing with clothes,' a furious Judge Diane Kiesel said on Wednesday.

When Sorokin emerged, she scolded her: 'I’ve had a jury here since 9:30 this morning.

ETA: for all this talk about her being dressed by a stylist -- she looks terrible!!

That style is called “mysterious chic“!

 

[MsJosie]

Well, IMO, if SOMEONE was hired as her stylist, to make “faux rich AS” presentable in court by what she is wearing....I hope that person has another line of work ready to go to. The outfits to me are pretty bad....wrinkled, short, low...low cut tops, black bras under tan sweater etc., messy hair...glasses not fitting properly(falling down her nose)....just some of the awful dressings to impress that is back firing. Just what will she do in prison?

Because other cases have had issues, mostly with females, perhaps, the courts should have a trial uniform of black pants or skirt, white blouse or shirt (long sleeved) and if it’s cold, a black sweater. Let’s complete with black slip on shoes as laces are dangerous....socks are black too. This way no one is complaining about the clothes, they are easily washed and reworn by the next defendant. Also, no color is gang affiliated.

It is one solution.

 

[Laughing]

Most recent article, a comment suggests this is purposeful & aimed at an insanity defense. Ring of truth, there, ring of truth.

The young woman is demonstrating that she is not part of the elite. Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall, Jackie Onassis -- any of these ladies could have put on those beige jail sweats and looked good.

While earning my Master's degree, I wrote a paper & presentation about dressing for work. This isn't even Business Casual.

Your uniform-concept is a good, workable idea. Defendants/families/attorneys would be allowed to provide black slacks & white shirt for court inspection, fit would be approved or denied.

 

[Seattle1]

https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/sinatra-faked-it-until-he-made-it-too-anna-sorokins-lawyer/
4/23/19

She’s no more of a fraud than Frank Sinatra.

At least that’s what faux heiress Anna Sorokin’s lawyer told Manhattan jurors Tuesday in his closing statement.

Defense lawyer Todd Spodek argued that Sorokin, much like the iconic crooner, faked her own success until she could make it.

Spodek reasoned that Sinatra’s press agency paid women to show up at his shows and swoon over him to drum up interest early in his career.

Spodek said Sorokin applied the same strategy — posing as a posh German heiress to score a $22 million loan to supposedly fund an elite Manhattan social club.

“Sinatra made a brand-new start of it in New York, just as Miss Sorokin did,” the lawyer told rapt jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court.

As he spoke, Sorokin coyly stared at the panel wearing a choker and a flouncy white dress.

It’s not the first time Spodek has referenced Ol’ Blue Eyes.
[...]
The prosecutor’s summation continues after lunch.

 

[MsJosie]

She really plays to the media. Every opportunity she can she turns and looks at the camera to get her pic taken. Goodness. She is a mess IMO.

Who is paying for her lawyers?

 

[JerseyGirl]

The Baby-Doll Innocence of Anna “Delvey” Sorokin’s Last Trial Look

Soho Grifter: Anna Delvey Sorokin Trial Draws to a Close – Rolling Stone

 

[MsJosie]

Does anyone think, that Sorokin, really gets what she did? She appears to be in another world of fantasy, probably wants everyone to believe that she is not with it. I am sure mental tests were done. When she gets to prison, not jail, she will have a terrible hard time. Her airs of walking around like she is hot stuff will not go well with other inmates IMO.

Some of what her lawyer said was real strange too. I wonder if what he said was coming actually from her?

Just strange....no more looking for and posing for the camera, no more ‘outfits’ (which IMO did not help her at all), no more prancing. Just prison clothes for some time and then shipped out.....and then the appeals will start!

 

[Laughing]

‘Anna Delvey,’ Fake Heiress Who Swindled N.Y.’s Elite, Is Found Guilty

Looks like Orange is the new Black for Ms. Sorokin

Alerting to have Guilty added to thread title.

 

[Seattle1]

‘Anna Delvey,’ Fake Heiress Who Swindled N.Y.’s Elite, Is Found Guilty

Looks like Orange is the new Black for Ms. Sorokin

Alerting to have Guilty added to thread title.

According to the NYT Story on her guilty verdict, it sounds like it was a $200 restaurant bill at hotel Le Parker that finally got her arrested!

How could her con game go on for years, if some were not complicit with her game?

 

[Laughing]

According to the NYT Story on her guilty verdict, it sounds like it was a $200 restaurant bill at hotel Le Parker that finally got her arrested!

How could her con game go on for years, if some were not complicit with her game?

JMHO, people were in denial about being duped/scammed/conned. So, they accepted excuses & waited for payment, expecting the well-know socialite Anna Delvey to owe them big favors?

Who said you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people?

 

[Seattle1]

JMHO, people were in denial about being duped/scammed/conned. So, they accepted excuses & waited for payment, expecting the well-know socialite Anna Delvey to owe them big favors?

Who said you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people?

There's a bit of sadness here -- people were using her too.

 

[PastTense]

The fashion-conscious fake German heiress convicted of forging her identity in an effort to scam a bank for a $22 million loan was sentenced Thursday to four to 12 years in prison.

Anna Sorokin was also ordered by Judge Diane Kiesel to pay almost $199,000 in restitution, as well as a fine of $24,000.

Judge gives fake heiress Anna Sorokin four to 12 years in prison for bank loan scam and thefts

Remember she rejected a plea deal which only required a few months in jail:
Accused socialite con artist rejects plea, heads to trial

 

[Seattle1]

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is sentenced to four to 12 years | Daily Mail Online

• Anna Sorokin was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison on Thursday in a Manhattan court
• The 28-year-old con artist's sentence follows her conviction last month on multiple counts of grand larceny and theft of services
• In addition to the prison sentence, Sorokin was ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution and $24,000 in fines
• The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said it will seek to deport Sorokin to Germany following her release
• Sorokin has been in custody since her October 2017 arrest and was facing 15 years in prison
• Her ruse included swindling tens of thousands of dollars from banks, hotels and friends that she used to bankroll her lavish New York lifestyle
• She posed as a fake German heiress named Anna Delvey to further the scam

 

[Seattle1]

US fake heiress apologises as she is jailed

A German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress to swindle New York hotels and banks has been sentenced to at least four years in prison.

"I apologise for the mistakes I made," Anna Sorokin, 28, said shortly before she learned her fate.

She was found guilty in April of theft of services and grand larceny, having stolen more than $200,000 (£153,580).

Sorokin, who rejected a plea deal, may face deportation to Germany.

She was sentenced on Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court to between four and 12 years in prison. The actual amount of time she will serve behind bars will depend on factors such as her behaviour.

Sorokin will receive credit for time already served, having been in custody at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail since October 2017.

She was also fined $24,000 and ordered to pay restitution of about $199,000.

At the hearing, Judge Diane Kiesel rejected the defence lawyers' claim that Sorokin was merely trying to make it in New York, in the words of the Frank Sinatra song about the city.

The judge said the Sorokin case instead reminded her of the Bruce Springsteen song, Blinded by the Light.

"She was blinded by the glitter and glamour of New York City," said Judge Kiesel, according to Buzzfeed.

The judge reportedly also said she was "stunned" by the depths of Sorokin's deception.

 

[MsJosie]

So, does she get the money from any movies made? I hope those she owes money too, sue to get reimbursement. What a farce. This felon will never learn.

 

[Seattle1]

So, does she get the money from any movies made? I hope those she owes money too, sue to get reimbursement. What a farce. This felon will never learn.

Something tells me she will take a page out of CA playbook, and file for bankruptcy protection, and later or after discharge, bank her royalties after she's released from prison years from now. MOO

 

[MsJosie]

Question...4-12 years. If she serves 4 years, she is given credit for time served, she would be out soon and then sent back to her home country. Why did the Judge not set a definite time of years like 12 years or 10 years or 4 years? It seems wishy washy not giving a set number of years unless the Judge wants her to leave the USA as soon as possible. And who determines just how many years she will actually serve? Thanks is advance.

 

[MsJosie]

Something tells me she will take a page out of CA playbook, and file for bankruptcy protection, and later or after discharge, bank her royalties after she's released from prison years from now. MOO

Thanks Seattle1. I hope her current lawyer is now finished with her unless she has used her magic ways with him too and he believes her stories. I can see her followings in CA steps. Hopefully the creditors will go after any and all monies. I will not pay or even watch free any movies about her. Send her back and let her home country keep,her, but I am sure she will get a new passport and travel again.

 

[Seattle1]

[...]
Moments before she was sentenced, Sorokin briefly addressed the court, saying, "I apologize for the mistakes I made."

Her defense attorney, Todd Spodek, told a gaggle of reporters that Sorokin was "holding up OK." He described the prison sentence as "expected" but said Sorokin will pursue an appeal.

"She's a tough woman," Spodek said, noting she has been at Rikers Island for more than 500 days.

Sorokin forged a new identity — Anna Delvey — and defrauded financial institutions and Manhattan celebrities into believing she had a fortune of $67 million (60 million euros) overseas that could cover her jet-setting lifestyle , high-end clothing and lavish hotel stays. She falsely claimed her father was a diplomat or an oil baron and falsified bank records. In fact, her father told New York magazine he's a former trucker who runs a heating-and-cooling business.

Her ruse included an application for a $22 million loan to fund a private arts club, complete with exhibitions, installations and pop-up shops, prosecutors said. She was denied that loan but persuaded one bank to lend her $100,000 that she failed to repay.

In all, prosecutors accused her of stealing some $275,000, including a $35,400 bill she failed to pay for a plane she chartered to and from the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. She went to great lengths to ensure others paid her way, even as she had "not a cent to her name, as far as we can determine," prosecutor Catherine McCaw said following Sorokin's arrest.

"An ordinary person would just take coach," McCaw told Kiesel at Thursday's hearing. "The defendant did not want an ordinary life, and she was willing to steal in order to get that."

The jury convicted Sorokin of four counts of theft of services, three counts of grand larceny and one count of attempted grand larceny.

Jurors acquitted her of two counts, including an allegation that she promised a friend an all-expenses paid trip to Morocco and then stuck her with the $62,000 bill. She was also found not guilty of one of the most serious charges in the indictment: attempting to steal more than $1 million from City National Bank.

Spodek argued that Sorokin had been "buying time" and always intended to settle her debts. He portrayed her as an ambitious entrepreneur and said she lacked criminal intent.
https://www.usnews.com/news/busines...man-heiress-faces-sentencing-in-ny-fraud-case

 

[Seattle1]

https://nypost.com/2018/01/02/wannabe-socialite-charged-in-scams-rejects-plea-deal/

Jan 2, 2018

A socialite wannabe accused of pretending to be a German heiress in order to scam banks, businesses and a pal out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has rejected a plea deal.

Anna Sorokin snubbed an offer of three to nine years behind bars in exchange for a grand-larceny guilty plea.

ETA: Not sure where the idea surfaced that the plea deal was for a few months??