Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be a German heiress to rip-off her method into a fancy New York life-style, was launched from an upstate jail Friday with hopes of preventing deportation, her representatives stated.
Sorokin, who additionally used the title Anna Delvey, posted a $10,000 bond and must stay below home arrest, put on an digital ankle monitor and haven’t any entry to social media, her spokesperson stated.
She’s secured an house in New York Metropolis, the consultant stated.
“After 17 months of immigration detention, an immigration decide acknowledged that continued incarceration was now not essential for Anna,” her immigration legal professional John Sandweg stated in a press release to NBC Information.
“This ruling doesn’t imply that Anna will get a free cross. She’s going to proceed to face deportation proceedings and her launch shall be intently monitored by ICE and the State of New York. Because the Courtroom discovered, nevertheless, the proof clearly demonstrated that any dangers may be greater than adequately mitigated by acceptable supervision.”
Representatives for the Division of Homeland Safety and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement company couldn’t be instantly reached for touch upon Thursday.
Sorokin, whose schemes have been dramatized within the Netflix sequence “Inventing Anna,” was taken into U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement custody final yr with federal authorities searching for to deport her.
Her federal detention got here after she spent greater than three years in jail for defrauding and making an attempt to defraud banks and motels out of a whole lot of 1000’s of {dollars}.
Sorokin rose by way of the ranks of Manhattan’s elite social circles, passing herself off as a wealthy, well-connected German heiress, prosecutors stated.
She used this persona and falsified data to get financial institution loans and five-star lodge stays whereas duping individuals to cowl airplane tickets and different luxurious bills, authorities stated.
