{"id":18173,"date":"2021-02-13T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18173"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:24:00","slug":"anna-sorokin-fake-heiress-released-from-us-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/02\/13\/anna-sorokin-fake-heiress-released-from-us-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Sorokin: Fake heiress released from US prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A German woman who posed as a billionaire heiress in New York has been released from prison.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be a wealthy socialite named Anna Delvey, was released from prison on Thursday, according to US media reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was found guilty in 2019 of theft of services and grand larceny, having scammed more than $200,000 (\u00a3145,000) from banks and luxury hotels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It is thought Sorokin could now face deportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her release comes months after she reportedly apologised at a parole hearing in October last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I just want to say that I’m really ashamed and I’m really sorry for what I did,”\u00a0the New York Post, who obtained a transcript, quoted Sorokin as saying<\/a>. “I completely understand that a lot of people suffered when I thought I was not doing anything wrong.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A lawyer for Sorokin previously told Insider that she was trying to appeal against her conviction, despite her planned parole release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Fake it until she could make it’<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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During her trial prosecutors told how Sorokin, under the assumed name of Anna Delvey, pretended she was worth about $60m with a trust fund in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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