Fake heiress who ‘posed as a German billionaire’s daughter to swindle bank out of $275,000 in loans’ will be deported – even if she is found to be INNOCENT
- Anna Delvey, a 28-year-old whose real name is Anna Sorokin, is said to have overstayed her visa in the United States
- ‘ICE is requesting that we be notified prior to her release from local custody so she can be taken into ICE custody,’ a representative said
- Sorokin posed as Anna Delvey, the heiress daughter of a fictitious billionaire Russian magnate and used the persona to dupe elite circles until January 2017
- The German citizen came to the US under the Visa Waiver Program on June 7, 2017, but didn’t leave the country in the appropriate time
- The program allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the United States without a visa for a maximum of 90 days
- Sorokin was arrested in October 2017 and charged with 10 counts of larceny
The German national who allegedly scammed friends and banks out of thousands of in hopes of reaching New York’s exclusive circles, now faces deportation.
Anna Delvey, a 28-year-old whose real name is Anna Sorokin, is said to have overstayed her visa in the United States.
Rachael Yong Yow, a spokeswoman with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said that the agency has instructed New York City’s Department of Corrections to hand the German citizen over as soon as her criminal proceedings wrapped.
Anna Delvey, a 28-year-old whose real name is Anna Sorokin, is said to have overstayed her visa in the United States and now faces deportation by ICE (pictured on March 22)
‘ICE is requesting that we be notified prior to her release from local custody so she can be taken into ICE custody,’ Yow said to Insider.
Sorokin posed as Anna Delvey, the heiress daughter of a fictitious billionaire Russian magnate and used the persona to dupe elite circles in Manhattan from 2013 until January of 2017
‘Regardless of whether or not she is convicted, she is amenable for removal because she is a visa waiver overstay. If she is convicted, she is sentenced to serve her time in the US.’
Sorokin posed as Anna Delvey, the heiress daughter of a fictitious billionaire Russian magnate and used the persona to dupe elite circles in Manhattan from 2013 until January of 2017.
She talked banks into lending her money to start the ‘Anna Delvey Foundation’ and skipped out on bills at the end of a weeks-long stays in some of New York’s finest hotels.
She also targeted individuals who she believed would serve her well and got them to pay for things with the promise that she would eventually give them the money back.
Yow stated that Sorokin came to the US under the Visa Waiver Program on June 7, 2017, but didn’t leave the country in the appropriate time. The program allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the United States without a visa for a maximum of 90 days.
Sorokin was arrested in October 2017 and charged with 10 counts of larceny.
Sorokin came to the US under the Visa Waiver Program on June 7, 2017, but didn’t leave the country in the appropriate time. The program allows citizens from 38 countries to visit the United States without a visa for a maximum of 90 days
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office sent a notice to Sorokin telling her that any fraud-related offense ‘in which the loss to the victim(s) is more than $10,000’ becomes a ‘deportable offense’. Her alleged thefts tally upwards to $275,000.
ICE plans to deport the woman after her sentence, if she is convicted.
Sorokin’s trial will soon be underway, and the jury selection process is currently underway.
The suspect showed up to court on Wednesday wearing a black blazer, beige blouse and white sneakers. She wore her hair in a ponytail.
Sorokin’s trial will soon be underway, and the jury selection process is currently underway (pictured on March 21)