The woman who was jailed after posing as a German heiress, a story that was turned into a Netflix series earlier this year, was released from detention on Friday.
Anna Sorokin, who created the alias Anna Delvey, had served almost four years of her 12-year prison sentence for financial crimes when federal immigration judge Charles R. Conroy ruled this week that she was no longer a threat. While she has been released from detention, she is required to wear an ankle bracelet and is not allowed to use social media, either through new accounts or her existing ones, according to the New York Times.
“This doesn’t mean she gets to stay in the United States,” said John Sandweg, who is representing Sorokin in her immigration case. “All this means is that she gets to continue to aggressively pursue all her cases out of jail, off the taxpayer’s dime — and she gets to do it from home.”
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Before her sentencing in 2019, Sorokin had gone to banks and other investment groups with a business plan to open an arts social club on Park Avenue South, but prosecutors claim that she wanted to use the money to pay for her upscale lifestyle. She was found guilty on April 25, 2019, of stealing over $200,000 from banks and friends while posing as the German heiress, according to CNN.
Sorokin’s art dealer, Chris Martine, posted bond with a $10,000 cashier’s check on Friday, and she was then processed out of the Orange County Correctional Facility in Goshen, New York, and sent to the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan to complete additional paperwork. Around 11 p.m., Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drove her to a one-bedroom apartment in the East Village neighborhood of New York City, Sandweg said.
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In February, streaming service Netflix released Inventing Anna, a drama about a journalist chasing Sorokin’s story as a con artist.
