This 30-year-old with an incredible life, sentenced in 2019 in New York to years in prison for having defrauded 275,000 dollars from hotels, banks and relatives, was released on bail and under certain conditions, announced to AFP a spokesperson for the Federal Immigration Police (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE).
The young woman had been detained since March 2021 in an ICE detention center in Goshen, 100 kilometers north of the megacity of New York, for overstaying her tourist visa after being released from prison for the first time. , for good conduct, in February 2021.
“An immigration judge ordered on Tuesday to grant Anna Sorokin parole and bail from ICE,” the immigration police said in a statement.
According to American media, the young woman had to pay a deposit of 10,000 dollars and will have to remain confined to her home in New York for a time and wear an electronic bracelet.
Anna Sorokin has been fighting for 18 months not to be deported from the United States.
A deportation order to Germany had been issued in February but she had lodged suspensive appeals and obtained to stay in her detention center with much more flexible conditions than in a prison.
Anna Sorokin, alias Anna “Delvey”, had succeeded from 2016 to her arrest in 2017 in deceiving New York elites by posing as a wealthy German heiress at the head of a fictitious heritage of 60 million dollars.
Capable of constructing skilful lies thanks to an extraordinary aplomb, the young woman had obtained tens of thousands of dollars in bank loans, traveled for free by private jet and lived on the hook of Manhattan palaces.
Arrested in 2017 and sentenced two years later, Anna Sorokin inspired television producer Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “Scandal”) to make it a successful mini-series on Netflix, “Inventing Anna”, with Julia Garner in the title role.