U.S. immigration officials said Thursday they had arrested Anna Sorokin, the fraudster who posed as a wealthy German heiress who had been behind bars for more than three years to defraud New York banks and hotels.
Sorokin, who made her way into the elite of Manhattan under the name Anna Delvey, stayed in Bergen County Jail in New Jersey days after her planned deportation to her native Germany.
The 30-year-old was taken into the custody of U.S. immigration and customs on March 25, agency spokesman Marcus Johnson told The Associated Press.
The delay could mean the one-time darling of the New York social scene is questioning their deportation, which has been in the works since its inception convicted in 2019 in several ways of theft and theft.
ICE declined to comment on Sorokin’s immigration process. Sorokin’s lawyer also declined to discuss the case. A message asking for a comment was left at the German embassy in Washington.
Prosecutors said Sorokin had falsified records as well defrauded financial institutions and Manhattan celebrities believe she has $ 67 million overseas assets that could cover her high-end clothing and lavish hotel stays.
Among other things, she claimed that her father – a former trucker who runs a heating and cooling business – was a diplomat or an oil baron.
Their ruse included an application for a $ 22 million loan to fund a private arts club with exhibits, installations and pop-up shops, prosecutors said. She was denied that loan, but persuaded a bank to lend her $ 100,000, which she couldn’t repay.
In total, prosecutors accused them of stealing $ 275,000.
Sorokin, known as the “Soho Grifter”, was sentenced to four to twelve years in prison after a trial that caught the attention of the international media. they was released from prison in February.
In a recent interview with the BBC, she suggested that her daring scam paid off. She wrote, she’s writing a book, and she’s working on several other projects.
“I’m trying to turn the attention I get into something positive,” she said.
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