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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:13Speaker 2: What is wrong with this woman? You're probably listening right
- 0:19Speaker 2: now as you are on your way to work or
- 0:21Speaker 2: on your way home from work, or maybe you're making
- 0:25Speaker 2: dinner in the kitchen, or maybe you're taking a break
- 0:29Speaker 2: from work or taking care of your family running one
- 0:34Speaker 2: hundred errands. But this woman doesn't work for a living,
- 0:39Speaker 2: she doesn't raise children. She's a phony heiress and after
- 0:44Speaker 2: scamming tens of thousands of dollars, actually hundreds of thousands
- 0:49Speaker 2: of dollars, now sitting in an upscale apartment in Manhattan,
- 0:54Speaker 2: phony heiress and a Delvy says, life without social media
- 1:01Speaker 2: it's more restrictive than jail. You know what, I would
- 1:06Speaker 2: happily send her back to jail. Fake heiress and a
- 1:09Speaker 2: soroken aka and a Delvi says her around the clock
- 1:14Speaker 2: home confinement and being from social media or more restrictive
- 1:19Speaker 2: than being behind bars. Why does she think everybody else
- 1:23Speaker 2: has to work and she can lay on her sofa whining?
- 1:26Speaker 1: Why is that?
- 1:28Speaker 2: As you will recall, the phony heiress rose to infamy
- 1:32Speaker 2: under the fake name Anna Delvi. Now the law is
- 1:37Speaker 2: requiring she either be in jail or have house arrest,
- 1:40Speaker 2: being in her apartment twenty four hours a day. This
- 1:45Speaker 2: is while she fights deportation and her conviction for schemming
- 1:49Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars from banks, businesses, and so called friends.
- 1:55Speaker 2: I mean, this one really takes the cake. I'm Nancy
- 1:59Speaker 2: Grace's Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at
- 2:02Speaker 2: Crime Stories and on Serious exim one eleven. How did
- 2:05Speaker 2: the whole thing start? I remember very well. Do you
- 2:09Speaker 2: take a listen to Inside Edition.
- 2:11Speaker 3: She claimed she was a wealthy heiress from Europe worth
- 2:15Speaker 3: more than sixty million dollars, but it was a lie.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Annasorgan went to prison for two years for defrauding banks, hotels,
- 2:24Speaker 3: and even her closest friends out of hundreds of thousands
- 2:28Speaker 3: of dollars. Her trial drew international attention.
- 2:32Speaker 4: This woman made national headlines posing as a wealthy woman.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Now, the woman.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Known as the SOHO Grifter is speaking to ABC's Debra Roberts.
- 2:42Speaker 5: This is the first time you've sat down for television interview.
- 2:45Speaker 5: Why are you talking with us?
- 2:47Speaker 6: Why not? I would like to show the will that
- 2:51Speaker 6: I'm not this dow greedy person that they portrayed me
- 2:54Speaker 6: to be.
- 2:54Speaker 4: You ask her who she really is?
- 2:56Speaker 2: Did she tell you an.
- 2:58Speaker 7: Asorgan is very complicated character. You might believe that Annasurican
- 3:03Speaker 7: is a very gifted, clever wanna be business woman or
- 3:07Speaker 7: a complete con artist. And there are many people in
- 3:10Speaker 7: her way who would tell you that she is the
- 3:12Speaker 7: classic con artist.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Why can't she be both? Why can't she be a
- 3:18Speaker 2: great business person and the ultimate scammer? I see her
- 3:23Speaker 2: as both. Take a listen to hour cut one from
- 3:26Speaker 2: the Vanity Fair special Scandalous.
- 3:28Speaker 8: By twenty sixteen, Anna Delvey was a regular in the
- 3:31Speaker 8: NYC social scene, frequenting many popular downtown restaurants, bars, and clubs.
- 3:37Speaker 8: With an extravagant lifestyle and a seemingly endless supply of money.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Delvy was an enigma that was made for the.
- 3:43Speaker 8: Age of Instagram, always at the right place, with the
- 3:46Speaker 8: right people, living her best life, but with no apparent
- 3:49Speaker 8: cause for her fame.
- 3:51Speaker 2: With Me, an all star panel to make sense of
- 3:53Speaker 2: what we know right now With Me Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor,
- 3:58Speaker 2: author of Red Flag and host of Today with Doctor
- 4:01Speaker 2: Wendy KCBQ. You can find her at wendypatrickphd dot com.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Doctor Donna Rockwell special guest joining us clinical psychologists in
- 4:10Speaker 2: both Michigan and New York, specializing in celebrity mental health
- 4:15Speaker 2: on faculty Saybrook University. Jim Ellis with a special guest
- 4:20Speaker 2: joining US certified fraud examiner, former FED with the FBI.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Don't mess with this guy, FBI agent twenty nine years now,
- 4:30Speaker 2: private investigator at JKE Texas Private Investigator JKE Texas dot com.
- 4:37Speaker 2: But first, I want to go to a woman I've
- 4:39Speaker 2: been dying to talk to, Rebecca Rosenberg with Fox News Digital.
- 4:44Speaker 2: She's a crime reporter and author of a fantastic book
- 4:46Speaker 2: At any Cost? Rebecca, who is this woman?
- 4:53Speaker 4: Who is this woman? Well, she her family came from Russia,
- 4:58Speaker 4: they moved to Germany, and I believe her father was
- 5:01Speaker 4: actually a truck driver. She did not come from a
- 5:05Speaker 4: wealthy family, and she just invented this identity when she
- 5:11Speaker 4: came to New York.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Now, her coming to New York was quite a story.
- 5:17Speaker 2: So Russian born moving to Germany, the child of a
- 5:22Speaker 2: truck driver. She ends up getting a job or an
- 5:27Speaker 2: internship that takes her to Paris. From there, the position
- 5:32Speaker 2: brings her to New York. I believe it was mon talk.
- 5:35Speaker 2: And then she very simply overstayed her visa, which thousands
- 5:39Speaker 2: of people do every year, but none do it in
- 5:42Speaker 2: the style of Anna Soroka. And take a listen to
- 5:47Speaker 2: our cut six our friends at Inside Edition.
- 5:50Speaker 9: Is she in a courtroom or at a red carpet event?
- 5:53Speaker 9: Anna Psorakin is accused of posing as an heiress to
- 5:56Speaker 9: live an extravagant lifestyle, But it's what she's wearing to
- 5:59Speaker 9: trial that making headlines. The twenty seven year old defendant
- 6:03Speaker 9: showed up wearing a form fitting black dress with a
- 6:05Speaker 9: plunging neckline and choker necklace. It's a look that could backfire.
- 6:09Speaker 9: Warren stylist John Karen.
- 6:11Speaker 10: Black dress definitely a no no. A hyper sexualize her.
- 6:15Speaker 10: It makes her appear to be like a seductress. The
- 6:18Speaker 10: choker kind of shows to me that she's trying to
- 6:21Speaker 10: be overtly sexy. The more sexy she appears to be,
- 6:26Speaker 10: it hurts her.
- 6:27Speaker 9: Soor Kin is so obsessed with her clothes she refused
- 6:30Speaker 9: to enter the courtroom because the outfit she was given
- 6:33Speaker 9: to wear was not up to her standards. The angry
- 6:36Speaker 9: judge told her this is unacceptable and inappropriate.
- 6:39Speaker 2: This is not a fashion show. Wow, Well, you know
- 6:42Speaker 2: what it didn't work, she continued wearing designer clothes to
- 6:46Speaker 2: every single court appears. But this goes way back. Her
- 6:50Speaker 2: desire for a lifestyle she could not afford started in
- 6:54Speaker 2: her teens. Take a listening to our buddy Jesse Palmer
- 6:57Speaker 2: a daily Mail TV.
- 6:58Speaker 11: Anna, who interned out a trendy French magazine, reportedly managed
- 7:02Speaker 11: to scam extended stays in swanky Manhattan hotels, dinner at
- 7:06Speaker 11: high end restaurants, and flights on chartered jets to finance
- 7:11Speaker 11: her lavish lifestyle and keep the grift going. She allegedly
- 7:15Speaker 11: built banks out of thousands in cash.
- 7:17Speaker 2: And that's not all.
- 7:19Speaker 11: The fake heiress reportedly fleees her friend out of sixty
- 7:22Speaker 11: two thousand dollars for a world class trip to Morocco.
- 7:26Speaker 11: But Anna went too far when she attempted to take
- 7:29Speaker 11: out a loan for twenty two million dollars to finance
- 7:32Speaker 11: a visual art center she called the Anna Delvi Foundation.
- 7:36Speaker 11: In all, Anna reportedly scammed a total of two hundred
- 7:39Speaker 11: and seventy five thousand dollars.
- 7:42Speaker 2: I mean, maybe it's just me, but to you Doctor
- 7:44Speaker 2: Donna Rockwell joining US Clinical Psychologist Faculty Saber University. Doctor Rockwell,
- 7:51Speaker 2: I don't know very many people except maybe Lawais that
- 7:55Speaker 2: lives in hotels.
- 7:56Speaker 12: No, I guess we don't really know many people who
- 7:59Speaker 12: live in her hotels. But it's very posh, isn't it
- 8:02Speaker 12: to do that? She might be a eloise poser, I guess,
- 8:07Speaker 12: But you know that makes her look really unattainable and
- 8:11Speaker 12: like she's got lots of money. So I think people
- 8:14Speaker 12: in her situation will do anything they can to look
- 8:17Speaker 12: like they're billionaires, not even millionaires.
- 8:20Speaker 2: And Rebecca Rosenberg joining us in Fox News Digital. Rebecca,
- 8:23Speaker 2: she wasn't just staying down at the Motel six. She
- 8:26Speaker 2: was staying at very very expensive and luxurious hotels.
- 8:31Speaker 4: Yes, she was staying at eleven Howard Street for a
- 8:34Speaker 4: very long time, racked up a bill that tens of
- 8:40Speaker 4: thousands of dollars, and that's where she lived for a
- 8:44Speaker 4: big chunk of the Times, the New York.
- 8:46Speaker 2: You know, it was really interesting that she created this
- 8:52Speaker 2: illusion that super rich and super educated people fell for.
- 9:00Speaker 2: I guess you'd call it New York society until she
- 9:06Speaker 2: went and basically invited herself to be on a yacht
- 9:12Speaker 2: in a bisa and then after everyone got off at
- 9:15Speaker 2: the end of the vacation, she and her boyfriend turned
- 9:19Speaker 2: and get back on and stay for another week or
- 9:23Speaker 2: ten days. I mean, Jim Ellis, you're the certified fraud examiner,
- 9:27Speaker 2: former FBI agent twenty nine years. For beats sake. When
- 9:31Speaker 2: you commandeer a yacht with a captain and a staff
- 9:35Speaker 2: and all the food and you're out at sea and
- 9:39Speaker 2: the gas, that is a huge bill, a huge bill.
- 9:45Speaker 13: And frankly, you know, she probably could have been stopped
- 9:48Speaker 13: and exposed at that point if any of these people
- 9:51Speaker 13: along the way you lost money, who got you know,
- 9:54Speaker 13: enticed by her story and it actually applied you know,
- 9:59Speaker 13: reasoning common sense at a certain point, things would have
- 10:04Speaker 13: gotten as far as as they did.
- 10:06Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's really interesting. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor,
- 10:10Speaker 2: author of Red Flags. You can hear her on today
- 10:13Speaker 2: with doctor Wendy k c b Q. Doctor Wendy, I
- 10:16Speaker 2: find it, Wendy Patrick, I find it really interesting that
- 10:20Speaker 2: the owners or the people that had rented the yacht
- 10:24Speaker 2: originally didn't go after her. Now they are really really
- 10:33Speaker 2: wealthy Hampton Nights, And I got to tell you something, Wendy,
- 10:37Speaker 2: I've been to the Hamptons a couple of times for charity,
- 10:41Speaker 2: when I would be speaking to a group or raising
- 10:46Speaker 2: money somehow or other. That's the same, Wendy. I couldn't
- 10:52Speaker 2: wait till I packed up my little rental car and
- 10:54Speaker 2: got out. I mean, I knew I was a dog upstairs.
- 10:58Speaker 2: I did not fit in. That was not where I
- 11:00Speaker 2: was supposed to be. And these rich people that got
- 11:04Speaker 2: ripped off but didn't report it, whether they didn't want
- 11:06Speaker 2: to look stupid or what.
- 11:08Speaker 14: Yeah, no, that's right, Nancy. I'm like you.
- 11:10Speaker 15: I'm more I'm more familiar with the Hampton in with
- 11:13Speaker 15: the free breakfast.
- 11:16Speaker 14: Go ahead.
- 11:18Speaker 15: So this is the this is the problem with the
- 11:20Speaker 15: super super rich. And it is a problem because financial
- 11:23Speaker 15: responsibility should be everyone's responsibility. But they probably either didn't
- 11:27Speaker 15: know or didn't care. Why do I say that, because
- 11:30Speaker 15: we've covered so many stories where you do have the
- 11:33Speaker 15: ultra rich that are scammed are defrauded by somebody like Anna,
- 11:37Speaker 15: but don't consider it in the balance to be worth
- 11:40Speaker 15: their while to pursue it, not.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Realizing there may be so many.
- 11:43Speaker 15: Other victims that they might be preventing by putting it
- 11:46Speaker 15: into it sooner rather than later. That may be why
- 11:48Speaker 15: they didn't say anything.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Fake heiress and a Psorkin aka Ana delviy is whining again. Judge,
- 12:14Speaker 2: can you just put her back in jail please, with
- 12:16Speaker 2: a gag order be in place? I think possibly yes.
- 12:20Speaker 2: She is at home and her upscale New York apartment
- 12:24Speaker 2: whining again. From what I can tell, she's thrown one
- 12:29Speaker 2: party after the next and sought out media opportunities. But
- 12:33Speaker 2: now the fraudster is begging a federal judge to step
- 12:36Speaker 2: in and change conditions of her house arrest. These conditions
- 12:41Speaker 2: ban her leaving home for any reason except medical or
- 12:46Speaker 2: for ice and court appointments. That she is to stay
- 12:51Speaker 2: off all social media and it is just killing her
- 12:55Speaker 2: not to be able to be on social media. She
- 12:58Speaker 2: claims not being on soccial media is quote exceedingly punitive punishing,
- 13:04Speaker 2: and that it unreasonably infringes on her freedom of speech,
- 13:09Speaker 2: her right did you process? She's just filed us in court. Man,
- 13:15Speaker 2: she is one wilely woman. She also claims not being
- 13:21Speaker 2: able to access social media has quote necessarily caused severe
- 13:26Speaker 2: emotional distress and stress to Missorkin. Man, she's got a nerve.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Remember what happened? I'm not quite sure, Rebecca Rosenberg what
- 13:36Speaker 2: her motivation is other than just living the high life.
- 13:40Speaker 2: But imagine the impact she could have made being the
- 13:45Speaker 2: daughter of a truck driver. I mean, I'm the daughter
- 13:48Speaker 2: of a railroad worker and a bank teller, and I
- 13:51Speaker 2: know my parents work over time to send me to college,
- 13:53Speaker 2: to send me to law school, and so much more.
- 13:58Speaker 2: She actually has a brilliant mind.
- 14:01Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't think that if she had been
- 14:03Speaker 4: honest about her origins, anybody, the people that she was
- 14:08Speaker 4: trying to hang out with the New York that they
- 14:09Speaker 4: would have really paid.
- 14:10Speaker 14: Attention to her.
- 14:12Speaker 2: We know she was born in Russia, grew up in Germany.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Her father worked at a transport company it went insolvent
- 14:19Speaker 2: at nineteen. She left her parents and brother for Paris
- 14:23Speaker 2: to pursue fashion. She has only ever spoken very vaguely
- 14:30Speaker 2: of her parents, as she terms conservative. But while she's
- 14:33Speaker 2: in Paris, she takes on the name Anna Delvy and
- 14:37Speaker 2: she shoots photographs for a fashion art magazine named Purple.
- 14:42Speaker 2: She only got four hundred euros a month and she
- 14:47Speaker 2: stayed financially dependent on her parents, who would send her
- 14:50Speaker 2: money pay for her apartment. Then she had a breakup
- 14:54Speaker 2: headed to New York and she went for a trip
- 14:57Speaker 2: to Montalk and then Fashion Week, and that really did it.
- 15:01Speaker 2: When she was at Fashion Week, there was no suggestion
- 15:06Speaker 2: she would ever turn back. She went from boutique hotel
- 15:10Speaker 2: to boutique hotel, always handing out chrisp one hundred dollar
- 15:15Speaker 2: tips and putting off bills with promises of wire transfers
- 15:21Speaker 2: that never happened. So, Rebecca Rosenberg, I know we've got
- 15:25Speaker 2: the one victim, Rachel Deloche Williams, but that's two hundred
- 15:31Speaker 2: and seventy five thousand dollars. What about all of the
- 15:34Speaker 2: hotels and all of the other people she ripped off?
- 15:38Speaker 4: A lot of people didn't come forward. And actually Rachel
- 15:42Speaker 4: Delos was really interesting because at the end Rachel actually
- 15:46Speaker 4: couldn't get paid restitution because the jury did not find
- 15:50Speaker 4: Theroken guilty of ripping her off. That was kind of
- 15:55Speaker 4: that was one of the charges they did not convict on.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Take a listen to Hour cut five be our Friends
- 16:01Speaker 2: at time.
- 16:02Speaker 16: Prosecutor Catherine mccau says, the defendant has not assent to
- 16:06Speaker 16: her name as far as we can determine, also noting
- 16:08Speaker 16: that Soroken is Russian born, not German, though she could
- 16:12Speaker 16: be deported to Germany no matter how the trial turns out,
- 16:14Speaker 16: as she's reportedly overstayed her visa. Under the name Anna Delvi,
- 16:18Speaker 16: she arrived in New York with a high priced wardrobe
- 16:21Speaker 16: and was known for handing out one hundred dollars cash tips,
- 16:24Speaker 16: reportedly saying at different points that her father was a diplomat,
- 16:27Speaker 16: an oil baron, or involved in the solar panel business,
- 16:30Speaker 16: none of which are the case. People who knew her
- 16:33Speaker 16: said she often asked others to use their credit cards
- 16:35Speaker 16: to cover cab and plane fares and then failing to
- 16:38Speaker 16: repay them.
- 16:39Speaker 2: Rebecca Rosenberg Netflix multi episode creation Inventing Anna. What is it?
- 16:48Speaker 4: It's a show based on her life story, so based
- 16:52Speaker 4: on it kind of glamorizes her. I'd say her criminal
- 16:57Speaker 4: activity in New York for which she was convicted, and
- 17:01Speaker 4: she sold her life rights to Netflix for them to
- 17:05Speaker 4: do the show.
- 17:06Speaker 2: So this woman cons she cons big. Take a listen
- 17:12Speaker 2: to our cut too from Vanity Fear.
- 17:14Speaker 8: Prior to their departure, Davis's manager told her Delvi's bill
- 17:18Speaker 8: and room charges were starting to mount and were still unpaid.
- 17:22Speaker 8: As a result, the hotel changed Delvy's room code and
- 17:25Speaker 8: detained all of her personal belongings. To renew her visa,
- 17:29Speaker 8: Delvi said she had to spend intervals of time out
- 17:31Speaker 8: of the country, so she decided to embark on an
- 17:34Speaker 8: adventure to Morocco. She invited her New York City circle
- 17:37Speaker 8: of friends. This trip was the quintessential example of the
- 17:41Speaker 8: lavish lifestyle that DELV was known for, a private villa
- 17:44Speaker 8: with a personal butler, all for just a mere seven
- 17:47Speaker 8: thousand dollars a night. During their trip, Delvi, making one
- 17:50Speaker 8: excuse after another, pressed Williams to pick up the tab
- 17:53Speaker 8: more and more frequently, eventually covering costs for dinner and
- 17:56Speaker 8: expensive Moroccan dresses, a stark change from the day as
- 18:00Speaker 8: DELV would pay for everything. Then, one morning, DELV was
- 18:04Speaker 8: informed by a hotel employee that they did not have
- 18:06Speaker 8: a working credit card on file. Delvy brushed this off
- 18:09Speaker 8: as an issue with her bank, but soon after Williams
- 18:12Speaker 8: was pressured into putting down her credit card by hotel
- 18:15Speaker 8: management staff and security members.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Jim Ellis joining us former fed with the FBI. Have
- 18:21Speaker 2: you ever seen anything like it where a person who
- 18:25Speaker 2: is so obsessed with a lifestyle or getting money actually
- 18:31Speaker 2: has alternate identities and scams and lies to even their
- 18:36Speaker 2: closest friends, their lovers.
- 18:38Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, I mean in her heart and Astoric is
- 18:43Speaker 13: a con and she basically just cares about herself and
- 18:50Speaker 13: she doesn't care what's left in her wake. And I've
- 18:54Speaker 13: seen this through my career, both as an FBI agent
- 18:57Speaker 13: and as a private investigator. The same way, I'm familiar
- 19:01Speaker 13: with one con artist.
- 19:03Speaker 14: Who dressed up.
- 19:04Speaker 13: He's a Southern Baptist boy from Louisianna, and he dressed
- 19:09Speaker 13: stuff like a Hasidic jew complete with clothing and makeup,
- 19:14Speaker 13: so he could go vouch to other people in the
- 19:18Speaker 13: Jewish community for himself.
- 19:20Speaker 14: I mean that people will go to no ends.
- 19:24Speaker 13: To satisfy their greed, to satisfy their one for fame
- 19:28Speaker 13: and power.
- 19:28Speaker 2: How do you untangle a case like this, Well.
- 19:32Speaker 13: I mean, obviously from a law enforcement perspective, you don't
- 19:35Speaker 13: even know about it till somebody who reports it.
- 19:38Speaker 2: I'm thinking about her personality. She goes to trial, she
- 19:44Speaker 2: goes to trial. I want you to hear what the
- 19:46Speaker 2: attorney said in court. Take a listen to our cut
- 19:48Speaker 2: seven air friends at GMA.
- 19:50Speaker 17: She had to fake it until she can make it
- 19:52Speaker 17: those words from the defendants own attorney, who claim she
- 19:55Speaker 17: never intended to commit a crime, but prosecutors call her
- 19:58Speaker 17: a fraud and a liar. It would do almost anything
- 20:01Speaker 17: to prolong her life of luxury. This morning, the fate
- 20:06Speaker 17: of an alleged scam artist is now in the hands
- 20:08Speaker 17: of a jury, both sides wrapping up arguments for a
- 20:13Speaker 17: case that's drawn international outrage. The style savvy defendant even
- 20:17Speaker 17: turning heads in court wearing an animal print dress. She
- 20:21Speaker 17: called herself Anna Delvi, a fashionable globetrotter who prosecutors say
- 20:25Speaker 17: was pretending to be a high flying German heiress living
- 20:28Speaker 17: a fairytale life of glitz and glam among Manhattan's elite.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Wow, okay, take a listen to her and a soroken
- 20:37Speaker 2: in her own words are cut nine from the BBC.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Did you get a thrill from him?
- 20:43Speaker 5: I mean, were you satisfied when you got away with something,
- 20:45Speaker 5: when you achieved something, when you slipped under the radar
- 20:48Speaker 5: and didn't have to pay.
- 20:49Speaker 2: Was it thrilling?
- 20:50Speaker 6: Absolutely not, because in my head I never thought that
- 20:53Speaker 6: I was cheating or getting away with anything. In my head,
- 20:55Speaker 6: like anybody that would borrow from them, that would be
- 20:59Speaker 6: getting back. I felt like they portrayed me as like
- 21:01Speaker 6: someone who is very manipulative, which I don't think I am.
- 21:05Speaker 6: And I was never really like too nice of a person.
- 21:08Speaker 6: I was never like really trying to talk my way
- 21:10Speaker 6: into anything. I kind of just told people what I
- 21:12Speaker 6: want and like the either give it to me or not,
- 21:15Speaker 6: and I.
- 21:15Speaker 14: Just moved on.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Sorkin, who was a subject of the Netflix hit Inventing Anna.
- 21:21Speaker 2: I watched all nine episodes to make sure I knew everything.
- 21:25Speaker 2: It was excruciating, claims she does not pose a risk
- 21:28Speaker 2: of flight or danger to the community. BS. This woman
- 21:33Speaker 2: will pick your pocket. In a New York Minute, she claims,
- 21:36Speaker 2: quote these restrictions serve absolutely no purpose in mitigating flight
- 21:40Speaker 2: risk or threat to the community. Bes. This one is
- 21:43Speaker 2: going to get online and start fleecing you for all
- 21:45Speaker 2: your money. How did you do it the first time?
- 21:48Speaker 2: She taught them into what she wanted through lines, I mean,
- 21:51Speaker 2: Donald rockwell, we really need a shrink. How can she
- 21:55Speaker 2: take hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury hotels, clothing
- 22:01Speaker 2: that she got our friends to pay for, racking up
- 22:04Speaker 2: credit cards she needs she'd never pay back hundreds of
- 22:07Speaker 2: thousands of dollars in credit cards, all based on lies.
- 22:12Speaker 2: I mean, she had to know that was wrong. She
- 22:15Speaker 2: wasn't just faking it, fake it till you make it.
- 22:18Speaker 2: She was outright lying for goods and services.
- 22:21Speaker 12: Yes, she was outright lying. That's how we see it.
- 22:26Speaker 12: It's interesting, you know, because a person who has early
- 22:29Speaker 12: life narcissistic.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Wounds, Okay, see, I don't know what that means.
- 22:34Speaker 12: What it means that someone is only really thinking about themselves.
- 22:37Speaker 2: You said a narcissistic wound. What's a narcissistic wound? I
- 22:41Speaker 2: know who narcissist is, But what's a narcissistic wound.
- 22:45Speaker 12: When we're babies. If our mother or primary caretaker doesn't
- 22:49Speaker 12: look at us and say, who is a pretty baby?
- 22:52Speaker 12: Is a pretty baby, we don't know that we exist.
- 22:55Speaker 12: So without early life mirroring, meaning the parent or the
- 22:59Speaker 12: caregiver's look at you, you know you're existing, you're smiling back,
- 23:03Speaker 12: there becomes a deficit that develops in a person, and
- 23:06Speaker 12: that is who becomes a narcissist or a self serving
- 23:11Speaker 12: person in adulthood, and we probably know many of them
- 23:13Speaker 12: in our own lives. However, in the context of same,
- 23:17Speaker 12: there's something called acquired situational narcissism, which means that the
- 23:23Speaker 12: situations that we come into after we're a baby, in
- 23:27Speaker 12: other words, like Anna when she was in her nineteen
- 23:29Speaker 12: and in her twenties, is enough to turn us into
- 23:33Speaker 12: that kind of a person, meaning all for me and
- 23:36Speaker 12: none for you. And how does she.
- 23:38Speaker 14: Get away with that?
- 23:39Speaker 12: She gets away with it because she's in denial, which
- 23:43Speaker 12: is a psychological coping mechanism. So the only way that
- 23:47Speaker 12: she can do these things is to not have a conscience,
- 23:50Speaker 12: to not think about it. So she has a sense
- 23:54Speaker 12: of acquired situational narcissism because of her situation, and then
- 23:59Speaker 12: wanted more and more of it and more of it.
- 24:01Speaker 12: And what people don't really understand about same is that
- 24:04Speaker 12: it is as addictive as heroine. The second we get
- 24:08Speaker 12: a taste of the spotlight, most of us, we want
- 24:12Speaker 12: more and more and more. And that's what happened with Anna.
- 24:15Speaker 12: She was in denial. She was projecting anything that she
- 24:19Speaker 12: was thinking about herself on to other people. She asked
- 24:22Speaker 12: for what she wanted, as we just heard on the tape,
- 24:25Speaker 12: she got it or she didn't get it, and she
- 24:27Speaker 12: moved on. She did not have a conscience to think about,
- 24:30Speaker 12: is this the right thing? Am I hurting anybody? That's
- 24:33Speaker 12: not how these people think. And it became more and
- 24:36Speaker 12: more and more because same is addictive, you.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Know, Wendy Pasti, she may justified it in her own mind,
- 24:42Speaker 2: and I'm certainly not defending her because this is irrational, right,
- 24:46Speaker 2: This is not reasoning, it's irrational. She was taking from
- 24:52Speaker 2: rich people in the Hamptons. I'm talking like thirty million
- 24:55Speaker 2: dollar homes with you know, guest houses that are you know,
- 25:00Speaker 2: bigger than our homes or apartments. She was taking from
- 25:04Speaker 2: someone that could afford it. Why she overstayed on the
- 25:07Speaker 2: yacht for a week because somebody else much richer than
- 25:11Speaker 2: her was paying for it. So I wonder in her mind,
- 25:14Speaker 2: as she justify it that.
- 25:15Speaker 15: Way, only had it been a very short amount of
- 25:18Speaker 15: time with something over all weekend or maybe even a week.
- 25:21Speaker 15: But the amount of time, the duration that this went on,
- 25:24Speaker 15: there was no conceivable way in her mind that she
- 25:27Speaker 15: possibly could have thought she would pay any of it back.
- 25:30Speaker 15: You know, she may have faked it until she made
- 25:31Speaker 15: it when she first got to New York, but when
- 25:33Speaker 15: stealing money from others over that period of time, faking
- 25:36Speaker 15: it is fraud. Hopefully that was a sound bite somebody
- 25:39Speaker 15: who's at her trial, because there's no other way circumstantially
- 25:42Speaker 15: you can justify that many victims over that long a
- 25:46Speaker 15: period of.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Time, and even now it's still all about her. Take
- 25:51Speaker 2: a listen to our friend Emily mate Less at the
- 25:54Speaker 2: BBC cut Tin. Why do you think so many people
- 25:57Speaker 2: believed he?
- 25:58Speaker 14: Then?
- 25:58Speaker 2: What was it in your person nine see that could
- 26:00Speaker 2: convince people?
- 26:02Speaker 15: I don't know.
- 26:02Speaker 6: I think like maybe believed I was smart and I
- 26:04Speaker 6: was working on something.
- 26:05Speaker 2: That was.
- 26:07Speaker 6: That could have like a great potential and that would
- 26:09Speaker 6: be successful.
- 26:11Speaker 15: I don't know.
- 26:11Speaker 6: I don't feel like he has much to do with
- 26:13Speaker 6: my personality. I guess like I really believed in myself
- 26:16Speaker 6: and what I was doing. I don't know, it's hard
- 26:21Speaker 6: to explain. I guess like people just see like I'm
- 26:26Speaker 6: talented and I'm focused, and I work hard, and I
- 26:30Speaker 6: couldn't make them a.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Lot of money. Rebecca Rosenberg worked hard at what. Every
- 26:36Speaker 2: time I see a fodo or a post of her,
- 26:38Speaker 2: she's on a luxury trip or she's shopping work at
- 26:41Speaker 2: WHAT Well.
- 26:42Speaker 4: I think I think a lot of her victims wanted
- 26:44Speaker 4: to believe in her success because it meant their success too.
- 26:47Speaker 4: You know, she's saying, Okay, I'm going to build this
- 26:50Speaker 4: Anadelvy foundation in Manhattan for twenty two million. And you
- 26:54Speaker 4: know one of the persons, one of the people she
- 26:57Speaker 4: do for the architect, well for him, I know, he
- 27:01Speaker 4: wanted to be involved in that big project, so he
- 27:03Speaker 4: wanted to sort of bleeve the lie because it would
- 27:06Speaker 4: ultimately help him. So I think a lot of it
- 27:08Speaker 4: was people wanting to kind of believe it was true
- 27:12Speaker 4: because there was an advantage to them.
- 27:14Speaker 2: These are just some of the things. And I want
- 27:17Speaker 2: to go to you on Jim Ellis that we have
- 27:19Speaker 2: uncovered falsifying financial documents from international banks wait for it,
- 27:26Speaker 2: totally approximately sixty million euros securing a loan of one
- 27:32Speaker 2: hundred grand after lying to bank reps with CTI, depositing
- 27:37Speaker 2: countless bad checks and to other banks. I guess you
- 27:41Speaker 2: know how you flow to check. You deposit a check,
- 27:45Speaker 2: you would draw the funds, and then you try to
- 27:48Speaker 2: short up from another bad account so that won't fall through,
- 27:52Speaker 2: and then another you basically play ropodope on banks. That
- 27:57Speaker 2: was totally nearly eighty thousand dollars. That doesn't include the
- 28:01Speaker 2: money she conned off our friends, never paying them back,
- 28:06Speaker 2: deft of services, almost a half a million dollars. I
- 28:10Speaker 2: mean that's a lot of money, Jim.
- 28:15Speaker 13: Oh, absolutely, it's a lot of money. And you mentioned
- 28:17Speaker 13: earlier you weren't sure how she ever worked hard. She
- 28:21Speaker 13: worked hard in preparing all these fraudulent documents and passing
- 28:27Speaker 13: all those bogus checks and coming up with stories that
- 28:31Speaker 13: were plausible but yet not too specific. The life of
- 28:35Speaker 13: the con is hard work, and they do it for
- 28:40Speaker 13: the for the power, they do it for the money,
- 28:42Speaker 13: They do it for the same. I think she saw
- 28:45Speaker 13: the banks as her potential savior. You know, you think
- 28:49Speaker 13: of of like Elizabeth Holmes with Sarnos. You know, was
- 28:53Speaker 13: she a genius or was she a scam artist? You know,
- 28:58Speaker 13: if if Sorkin was able to produce all these phony
- 29:02Speaker 13: documents and convince a bank to lend her twenty two
- 29:06Speaker 13: million dollars.
- 29:07Speaker 2: So wait, explain that to us, mere mortals, What do
- 29:10Speaker 2: you mean, produce phony documents and convince big banks to
- 29:13Speaker 2: learn her a lots of money?
- 29:14Speaker 14: Sure it happened. You know.
- 29:17Speaker 13: She apparently was really adept in.
- 29:21Speaker 14: Adobe photoshop.
- 29:22Speaker 13: I mean, she was taking documents and altering them to
- 29:26Speaker 13: convince the bankers that she had Swiss bank accounts, that
- 29:30Speaker 13: she had trust documents, and she had lawyers and CPAs
- 29:34Speaker 13: or accountants over in Europe. And it was going at
- 29:38Speaker 13: least to a certain extent, probably till it hit the
- 29:41Speaker 13: underwriting department, the people in the back of the office
- 29:46Speaker 13: who make sure everything's all the boxes are checked. It
- 29:50Speaker 13: was it was painting a picture of her, of exactly
- 29:53Speaker 13: who she was claiming to be. And I think if
- 29:57Speaker 13: she probably she possibly could have felt that she was
- 30:01Speaker 13: able to land that loan. In her mind, she probably
- 30:05Speaker 13: was going to pay all those people.
- 30:07Speaker 14: Back that she had scammed in her mind.
- 30:10Speaker 13: In her mind, and she may have, we don't know.
- 30:13Speaker 13: She's kicking the can down the road. She's getting her
- 30:16Speaker 13: next victim, and when that when it comes time to
- 30:19Speaker 13: pay them.
- 30:20Speaker 14: Back, she'll worry about that later. It's never ending.
- 30:25Speaker 13: I mean, it's what brings down every ponzee scheme in
- 30:28Speaker 13: the end, and this wasn't a large scale ponzee scheme.
- 30:31Speaker 13: But you know, some of that money she scammed through
- 30:35Speaker 13: those phony checks that she deposited with City Bank and
- 30:39Speaker 13: the loan she got from City National Bank she used
- 30:43Speaker 13: to pay some of her debts that to the hotels
- 30:48Speaker 13: and other businesses so that she could stay afloat and
- 30:51Speaker 13: maintain that illusion.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Well, Jim Ellis, I guess what you're saying is she
- 30:55Speaker 2: would pay back the hotels to the extent that she
- 30:58Speaker 2: could get them to allow her to stay there for
- 31:01Speaker 2: even longer. I mean, what does it mean to kayta check?
- 31:05Speaker 14: Well, to kya check?
- 31:06Speaker 13: And it's a lot harder nowadays than they used to
- 31:10Speaker 13: be because the float, which is the time that the
- 31:12Speaker 13: check is deposited in the one bank and actually clears
- 31:15Speaker 13: in the originating bank, it's so much shorter.
- 31:19Speaker 14: But you you basically take a check.
- 31:21Speaker 13: And you present it to a bank that you know
- 31:23Speaker 13: is worthless, or it may appear it has funds, but
- 31:28Speaker 13: by the time that check is presented for payment to
- 31:31Speaker 13: the originating bank, there aren't any funds available.
- 31:48Speaker 1: Prime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 31:51Speaker 2: The fake Eiris has been living in a Manhattan pad
- 31:54Speaker 2: during her confinement, until she moved to a quote temporary
- 31:58Speaker 2: residence in upstate New York after her lease was up.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Say court papers. The judge ordered she would be subject
- 32:06Speaker 2: to random visits by l law enforcement to check her
- 32:10Speaker 2: electronic devices to make sure she's staying off social media. Hmmm,
- 32:20Speaker 2: this judge is so distrustful of this woman. She is
- 32:24Speaker 2: not allowed to go to leave home to buy groceries, exercise, nothing,
- 32:30Speaker 2: no reason barring a medical emergency. Would she really rather
- 32:36Speaker 2: be in jail? I believe that can be arranged. Take
- 32:40Speaker 2: a listen to our friends at GMA Good Morning America.
- 32:43Speaker 18: A New York City jury finding social life anasauricamp a
- 32:46Speaker 18: so called SOHO grifter guilty on eight counts, including grand larceny,
- 32:51Speaker 18: attempted grand larceny, and theft of services to.
- 32:54Speaker 11: Juris obviously believed our point of view and followed our logic,
- 32:58Speaker 11: and you quitted her for the top charges.
- 33:00Speaker 2: I'm sad and that she was convicted of some of
- 33:01Speaker 2: the other charges that.
- 33:03Speaker 17: Sor again was acquitted of two charges, including the most serious,
- 33:06Speaker 17: so attempting to steal more than one million dollars from
- 33:08Speaker 17: City National Bank.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Jay Rebecca Rosenberg joining us from Foxy's Digital, explaining the
- 33:13Speaker 2: split verdict. What was she convicted on and on what
- 33:17Speaker 2: was she acquitted?
- 33:18Speaker 4: She was acquitted on trying to score this massive twenty
- 33:22Speaker 4: million dollar loan, which was one.
- 33:25Speaker 14: Of the top charges.
- 33:26Speaker 4: That was the printed grand larceny and she was acquitted
- 33:29Speaker 4: of stealing the number kind of varied, but around seventy
- 33:34Speaker 4: thousand from Rachel Deloche. That was the trip that she
- 33:37Speaker 4: invited her best friend at the time, Racheld Deloschan, to Morocco,
- 33:41Speaker 4: where they stayed in the seven thousand a night riod
- 33:44Speaker 4: outside a marakesh and at the end of the trip
- 33:47Speaker 4: she stuck her with the bill.
- 33:48Speaker 14: She persuaded her to put the.
- 33:51Speaker 4: Entire trip on her credit card and she would pay
- 33:52Speaker 4: her back. So those were the two main counts she
- 33:55Speaker 4: was acquitted on and then she was convicted. And she
- 34:02Speaker 4: was convicted in the chartered plane incident.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Right, well, let me let that, so can Rebecca Roisenberg.
- 34:09Speaker 2: The chartered plane incident? What was that?
- 34:12Speaker 4: So it was called Blade is the company, and she
- 34:17Speaker 4: persuaded them to fly her without paying up front to
- 34:21Speaker 4: a Berkshire Hathaway conference in Omaha and basically was like,
- 34:27Speaker 4: I'll pay you later, and they thought she'd pay them
- 34:30Speaker 4: later and she didn't. And that was about thirty five
- 34:32Speaker 4: thousand dollars. It was a chartered flight.
- 34:35Speaker 2: The chartered flight incident. Okay, so she ends up going
- 34:42Speaker 2: to not just jail, but to Rikers is anybody on
- 34:46Speaker 2: the panel familiar with Riykers? Okay, yes, just by reputation. Yeah,
- 34:52Speaker 2: you don't want to go there unless you have to
- 34:55Speaker 2: take a Listen to Anna Sorokan speaking to our friend
- 35:00Speaker 2: Deborah Roberts at ABC.
- 35:02Speaker 5: Dorikan says she's paid for her mistakes, her time behind bars,
- 35:05Speaker 5: including nineteen months in New York's infamous Writers Island jailed,
- 35:10Speaker 5: some of it in solitary confinement. You're being held in Rikers,
- 35:14Speaker 5: one of the most frightening jails in the country.
- 35:18Speaker 2: What was that like for you?
- 35:19Speaker 6: Were you terrified in a way that was therapeutic?
- 35:23Speaker 2: I mean it's a therapeutic.
- 35:25Speaker 6: I for example, used the time like to read a
- 35:27Speaker 6: lot and to write.
- 35:29Speaker 5: You've heard that, You've said that it's the prison is
- 35:31Speaker 5: kind of a waste of time.
- 35:32Speaker 6: Yeah, taking a person, straping them off everything, putting them
- 35:37Speaker 6: somewhere where they have pretty much very few opportunities to rehabilitate.
- 35:42Speaker 6: So how is this supposed to help someone who already
- 35:45Speaker 6: had to resort to life of crime?
- 35:47Speaker 2: And that tells me right there that Anna Delvy aka
- 35:52Speaker 2: Ana Sroken learned nothing from our time behind bars, Wendy
- 35:56Speaker 2: Patrick nothing.
- 35:57Speaker 15: It also tells us that she is admitting she resorted
- 36:00Speaker 15: to a life of crime, which contradicts everything she said
- 36:03Speaker 15: before the trial and even in some interviews after the trial.
- 36:06Speaker 15: She knew because she wasn't working, as you pointed out
- 36:09Speaker 15: several times, there was no way she was going to
- 36:12Speaker 15: be able to repay these loans. But sitting through the trial,
- 36:15Speaker 15: sitting in Riker's Island prison therapeutic, you have to wonder
- 36:19Speaker 15: whether she received special treatment. We don't know one way
- 36:21Speaker 15: or the other, but it is very interesting that her
- 36:24Speaker 15: attitude apparently hasn't changed.
- 36:26Speaker 2: I'm sure she got special treatment because she had managed
- 36:29Speaker 2: to convince everyone that she was a celebrity that deserves
- 36:33Speaker 2: special treatment. You know, Rebecca Rosenberg, I'm not sure I
- 36:35Speaker 2: understand the not guilty on the sixty grand she ripped
- 36:40Speaker 2: off from Rachel Delights Williams. What was the Jerry's thinking.
- 36:44Speaker 4: Well, I spoke to a couple of jurors after the
- 36:47Speaker 4: verdict and they kind of felt that in the end,
- 36:50Speaker 4: Rachel came out ahead, even though it was this like
- 36:53Speaker 4: really stressful situation for her where she had put the
- 36:58Speaker 4: payment for the trip on her her work visa card
- 37:02Speaker 4: and just you know, it was a sum of money
- 37:04Speaker 4: that was greater than what she earned as a salary.
- 37:07Speaker 4: But eventually, you know, she did, she did end up
- 37:14Speaker 4: with I think her book advance was three hundred thousand dollars.
- 37:17Speaker 4: I don't know what she got paid from HBO. So
- 37:20Speaker 4: I think they just didn't feel that bad for her.
- 37:22Speaker 2: But why because why do they not feel bad for
- 37:25Speaker 2: Rachel Williams?
- 37:26Speaker 4: Because she was also using Anna Soroken. You could say,
- 37:30Speaker 4: like she, you know, it's sort of weird, like she's
- 37:32Speaker 4: going out with Anna all the time, and Anna it's
- 37:35Speaker 4: always paying for absolutely everything. You know, I personally wouldn't
- 37:41Speaker 4: feel that comfortable if I was going out with somebody,
- 37:44Speaker 4: even if they were much wealthier than me, with them
- 37:47Speaker 4: flitting the bill every time. So I think that was
- 37:50Speaker 4: kind of their reasoning.
- 37:51Speaker 2: Take a listen to what happens immediately when she walks
- 37:55Speaker 2: out from behind bars are cut fourteen inside edition.
- 37:59Speaker 5: Do you walk out of prison a free woman high
- 38:01Speaker 5: on love?
- 38:02Speaker 2: It was the first thing you did that.
- 38:03Speaker 6: Brought me my phone, so I got on social media.
- 38:08Speaker 7: She came out of prison and immediately set down to
- 38:11Speaker 7: do this interview with us, and immediately went on social
- 38:14Speaker 7: media and immediately started to resume kind of a glamorous life.
- 38:18Speaker 2: So the first thing she does is on social media.
- 38:23Speaker 2: What does that tell you, doctor Rockwell, the.
- 38:25Speaker 12: Same thing it tells you, doctor Gray, that she didn't
- 38:28Speaker 12: feel all bad about one thing through this entire event,
- 38:32Speaker 12: that there's a lack of conscience, and that she was
- 38:36Speaker 12: loving the spotlight and she couldn't wait to get back
- 38:39Speaker 12: into it. As I say, it's an addiction. It makes
- 38:42Speaker 12: the hormones flash in your mind, you have endorsements, your
- 38:46Speaker 12: brain comes alive with your own image, and you love it,
- 38:51Speaker 12: you salivate over it. And that's what happened to panis.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Orkin, Jim Ella Certified Fraught Examiner are now with his
- 38:57Speaker 2: own firm JKE Texas. Jim shopaholics or people that get
- 39:04Speaker 2: a thrill out of buying things. I think Anna Soroken
- 39:08Speaker 2: aka n Anna Delvy got a thrill of some sort
- 39:14Speaker 2: of this fake life she was leading. Do you think
- 39:18Speaker 2: someone like her can turn over a new leaf or
- 39:23Speaker 2: is this just who she is?
- 39:24Speaker 14: Well, that's a good question.
- 39:26Speaker 13: I mean I always hope.
- 39:28Speaker 2: I did say what you hope. Jim allis you investigated
- 39:32Speaker 2: so many con guys, what do you think they.
- 39:36Speaker 13: Don't stop I mean, as you pointed out, she immediately
- 39:40Speaker 13: got back on social media, and I agree with doctor
- 39:43Speaker 13: Rockwell that it was for the endorphent rush of getting
- 39:48Speaker 13: that hit, of getting that fame and putting out that projection.
- 39:51Speaker 13: But I think it's also a certain aspect that is
- 39:56Speaker 13: rebuilding her stature so that she can now see where
- 40:01Speaker 13: she can get her next meal ticket from.
- 40:05Speaker 14: But who in the right mind would want to work.
- 40:07Speaker 13: With somebody that just got out of prison for defrauding
- 40:13Speaker 13: hundreds of thousands of dollars from the people she was
- 40:16Speaker 13: closest to.
- 40:17Speaker 2: Will the whining ever end from Anna Sorkin aka Anna Delvy?
- 40:25Speaker 2: Probably not, Okay, I'll keep that in mind as I
- 40:28Speaker 2: go back to work. Goodbye, friend,