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Anna Delvey Body Shames Herself? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm Nancy Grayson. This is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories.
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Speaker 2: Does she never go away? Why can't she just get
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Speaker 2: a job and be quiet?
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the fake heiress, the con artist that
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Speaker 1: conned we know of about a quarter million dollars out
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Speaker 1: of friends and businesses. Anna Delvy now whining. Wait for it,
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Speaker 1: she's quote embarrassed.
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Speaker 2: Quote about how much weight she gained behind bars.
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Speaker 1: Shouldn't she be embarrassed for conning people out of a
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Speaker 1: quarter of a million dollars?
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Speaker 2: Quote the food is just the worst?
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Speaker 1: Delvy toll page six, about her stint behind bars. Quote,
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Speaker 1: I looked really, really bad when I came out of jail.
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Speaker 1: I think I was at my heaviest and I was
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Speaker 1: like really self conscious.
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Speaker 2: It's so embarrassing. Is she crazy? She should be embarrassed
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Speaker 2: about conning.
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Speaker 1: Friends, ripping them off to the tune of about a
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Speaker 1: quarter million dollars?
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Speaker 2: How did she do it? Let's take a little flashback.
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Speaker 3: With an extravagant lifestyle and a seemingly endless supply of money,
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Speaker 3: Delvy was an enigma that was made for the age
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Speaker 3: of Instagram. Always at the right place, with the right people,
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Speaker 3: living her best life. But with no apparent cause for
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Speaker 3: her fame. Her circle of acquaintances was fed various stories
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Speaker 3: as to how she accumulated her vast wealth. Her father
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Speaker 3: was a Russian billionaire, a Russian diplomat, an oil tycoon,
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Speaker 3: a Russian antiques collector, or a solar energy capitalist. While
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Speaker 3: many parts of Delvy's story were fluid, some things were consistent.
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Speaker 3: Delvy made no effort to hide her internship at the
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Speaker 3: Paris magazine Purple, and made it very clear that her
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Speaker 3: dream was to open a Soho house for art and quote.
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Speaker 1: Upset fake German heiress and a serrokean guilty of grand
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Speaker 1: larceny after a life of fake ripping people off to
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Speaker 1: nearly a quarter of a million dollars that we know of,
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Speaker 1: who would believe a Russian heiress and fork over thousands
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Speaker 1: of dollars? And in court she was more upset about
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Speaker 1: her designer clothing wardrobe than she was about being found guilty.
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Speaker 1: Now that's unusual. This girl and a Serrocan also known
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Speaker 1: as Anna Delviy, somehow manages to con so Ho Elite out.
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Speaker 2: Of a quarter of a million dollars, joining me in
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Speaker 2: all star lineup.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Cortize former FBI Special Agent Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: author of Red Flags, Doctor William in July psychologist in
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Speaker 1: John Limley, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter John Limley
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Speaker 1: help me out. This girl shows up. Her skin is
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Speaker 1: so pale, she looks.
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Speaker 2: Like a ghost.
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Speaker 1: And she's got this long brown hair parted usually slightly
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Speaker 1: on the side, big glasses, and the hair hangs down
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Speaker 1: like curtains.
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Speaker 2: Over her face.
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Speaker 1: You can barely see the eyes, you know, the hair
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Speaker 1: is so close down. I can't see her face. That
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Speaker 1: makes me suspicious. But who would buy into my dad
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Speaker 1: is a Russian billionaire?
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Speaker 2: Give me your money. Oops, I forgot my credit card.
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Speaker 2: What happened? Let's just start at the beginning.
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Speaker 4: Well, Nancy, apparently a lot of people were just hungry
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Speaker 4: to buy into this story. If New York City is
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Speaker 4: a city of dreams, which we hear it called all
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Speaker 4: the time, Anna had enough for the entire island. She
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Speaker 4: had longed to be a member of the upper echelon
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Speaker 4: of Manhattan system.
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Speaker 1: I understand something, John Lenlay, Crime Online investigator reporter. Did
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Speaker 1: you just call her giant fraud? Ripping people off tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars, including one woman that took the
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Speaker 1: stand A working class person who go on an all
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Speaker 1: expense paid trip with her to Morocco and she gets
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Speaker 1: stiffed with a sixty five thousand dollars bill.
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Speaker 2: Wait are you calling that a dream?
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Speaker 4: Go it?
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Speaker 2: Wait? How dare you?
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Speaker 4: Persons? Dream is another person's night.
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Speaker 2: To feed yourself with cliches?
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Speaker 1: Don't the American dream my rear end? Jeff Cortiese, I
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Speaker 1: call it something a lot different than the American Dream?
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely.
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Speaker 5: I mean this was a at least on the front end,
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Speaker 5: a well executed fraud.
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Speaker 2: Over the long term, it didn't. It didn't have the
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Speaker 2: legs to remain sustainable a long term.
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Speaker 1: I mean she managed to pull it off, Wendy Patrick,
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Speaker 1: for you know what two years? I forgot how long
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Speaker 1: she managed to pull the wool over everybody's eyes, going
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Speaker 1: on trips to Morocco, staying at I think it's eleven
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Speaker 1: Howard some ritzy. I don't even know how you find
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Speaker 1: that hotel in New York. It's one of those places.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's even marked. Only rich people go there.
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, What is what happened to John Limley? The
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Speaker 1: Voice of reason. He just called this the American dream.
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Speaker 6: What well, I think, John Limley, what he was talking
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Speaker 6: about is there are there are some misguided, vulnerable people
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Speaker 6: that really are subjected to social predators like Anna, and
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Speaker 6: you know, some people just are absolutely you guys mentioned
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Speaker 6: the glamor, the glitz. It's like they want to believe
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Speaker 6: and this fake it till you make it lifestyle. You know,
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Speaker 6: nobody even took the time to say, show me the money,
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Speaker 6: show me the fun, show me the corroboration behind your
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Speaker 6: wild stories, because caught up in the moment in an
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Speaker 6: Instagram savvy society, people want to be in the company
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Speaker 6: of people like Anna, and sadly, as a prosecutor, I
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Speaker 6: am just we are just absolutely just terrified of people
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Speaker 6: like this that are able to so easily infiltrate our social.
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Speaker 1: Networking to doctor Williams, you a lie of psychologist, author
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Speaker 1: of a dark and they did a quit her off,
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Speaker 1: which I was shocked about because this girl actually took
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Speaker 1: the stand Graham larceny for alleged stealing sixty two thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars from a friend that she said, come along, I'll
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Speaker 1: pay for everything on a trip to Morocco. Okay, I
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Speaker 1: think they actually punished the friend because when you go
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Speaker 1: on a luxurious trip to Morocco, you stay in a
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Speaker 1: five star hotel. They went to Spa treatments that were
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Speaker 1: costing like three hundred dollars a treatment.
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Speaker 2: Whatever that treatment may be.
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Speaker 1: Laying in mud, getting their nails whatever, three hundred I
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Speaker 1: think the Jerry punished that friend for going along with
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Speaker 1: the excess doctor July.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, at worse, Nancy, what you're looking at
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Speaker 7: in cases like this, at worst is a psychopathological level
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Speaker 7: of narcissism. At best, what you're looking at as a
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Speaker 7: person who has so much greed and desire to please
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Speaker 7: herself that she doesn't care what the consequences are for
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Speaker 7: other people. You were asking earlier, and I just want
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Speaker 7: to address what you were asking earlier about why and
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Speaker 7: how and this sort of thing happened. We're all baffled
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Speaker 7: when we see this, but it's age old. It's a
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Speaker 7: tale as old as time. The Charlottan comes in and
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Speaker 7: fools everyone. So there's a part of people that are
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Speaker 7: looking at this who want to believe this because they
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Speaker 7: want to hang out with the person who has this
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Speaker 7: kind of social These types of social credentials and they
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Speaker 7: want to believe that she's an heiress so that they
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Speaker 7: can be with her. And people are blaming social media.
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Speaker 7: It's not the fault of social media. Social media is
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Speaker 7: just a facilitator to the neediness of other people who
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Speaker 7: want to believe and accept it.
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Speaker 1: By are you piling on everybody on the panel except Cortese,
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Speaker 1: Thank goodness, has keeps talking about the Instagram and society.
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Speaker 1: You know what, Instagram didn't have a dang thing to
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Speaker 1: do with this. It was all mistaing crime stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Anna Delvey, the fake heiress has the gall
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Speaker 1: to wine quote. I was eating like cheese, it's and
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Speaker 1: diet coke from the vending machine. I don't eat meat,
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Speaker 1: but you probably don't want to eat meat that they're
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Speaker 1: serving in jail anyway. And then when I came out,
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Speaker 1: I needed to eat everything that I was missing.
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Speaker 2: I'm so embarrassed.
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Speaker 1: Okay, she should be embarrassed, but not because she ate Cheetos.
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Speaker 1: She should be embarrassed because she is a thief, a
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Speaker 1: con artist that ripped off everybody, from banks to corporations
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Speaker 1: to her so called best friends.
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Speaker 2: But let's take a walk down memory lane.
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Speaker 1: Her parents' hard working middle class people that she borrowed
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Speaker 1: a ton of money borrowed.
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Speaker 2: I eastole a.
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Speaker 1: Ton of money from them as well. Hey, but she
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Speaker 1: didn't just create a different identity her parents. I think
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Speaker 1: the dad drives a truck, and I know that's like
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Speaker 1: my dad, as you know, worked on the railroad. My
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Speaker 1: mom started as a bank teller. My grandfather drove an
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Speaker 1: ice truck and a school bus, anything to put the
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Speaker 1: food on the table. But she not only assumed different
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Speaker 1: an identity for herself, but she also created a whole
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Speaker 1: team of imaginary assistants, an assistant, an accountant, a manager Limley.
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Speaker 2: Is this true of her imaginary assistance well?
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Speaker 4: And some were not so imaginary. She even had the
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Speaker 4: concierge at a hotel essentially on her staff. At her
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Speaker 4: Beck and Call. She was able to convince people of
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Speaker 4: not only her wealth, but all of her aspirations, her dreams.
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Speaker 4: She really wanted to build this member's only arts club
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Speaker 4: on Park Avenue South and was even working to get
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Speaker 4: the financing for it.
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Speaker 1: And was not reading this, John Lanley. She lied to
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Speaker 1: a bank using phony records.
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Speaker 8: Anna went too far when she attempted to take out
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Speaker 8: a loan for twenty two million dollars to finance a
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Speaker 8: visual art center she called the Anna Deelvi Foundation. In all,
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Speaker 8: Anna reportedly scammed a total of two hundred and seventy
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Speaker 8: five thousand dollars, and his double life began to crumble
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Speaker 8: as hotels went after her unpaid debts and banks began
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Speaker 8: to investigate her alleged assets.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's Jesse Palmer over at Daily Mail TV.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So, friends and acquaintances say Sorokans spent years playing
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Speaker 1: the part of an art obsessed German heiress. Sometimes she'd
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Speaker 1: be Russian, sometimes she'd be German. She had an accent
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Speaker 1: to go with it, rubbing shoulders with the fashion elite
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Speaker 1: at Paris Fashion Week, frequently spotted in London night spots.
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Speaker 1: Then those who knew her saw her at a party
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Speaker 1: in Berlin. She told everybody she had just flown in
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Speaker 1: on a private jet. Did she pull it off? Scamming
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Speaker 1: nearly three hundred thousand dollars. It was only when these
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Speaker 1: ritzy hotels in New York went after her to pay
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Speaker 1: her bills that the whole thing fell apart. But what
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Speaker 1: really amazed me, You know, I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: do this or not. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor or author
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Speaker 1: of red Flags on Amazon. Wendy, under the constitution, you
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Speaker 1: can't force a defendant into court in handcuffs or leg
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Speaker 1: irons or waist shackle. You can't force them to come
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Speaker 1: in in inmate jumpsuit, prison blues.
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Speaker 2: Or orange or stripes, whatever the case may be. But
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Speaker 2: I would always keep.
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Speaker 1: A jacket and pants and a couple of different sizes
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Speaker 1: in my office. So when a defendant would show up
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Speaker 1: on Monday morning trial calendar and say, oh, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: want to go to trial, but I don't have a suit,
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Speaker 1: I go, oh, I do have a suit for you.
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Speaker 1: But she was more concerned about what she wore to
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Speaker 1: court every day she had She actually had a personal
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Speaker 1: dresser dialist dressing her for court. Wendy, Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 6: Nancy, what you're describing really is something hopefully the judge
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Speaker 6: will take into considering it fentancing, because it's this entire
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Speaker 6: mentality of I don't want to say just not getting it.
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Speaker 6: That would be too kind. It's a complete underappreciation, or
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Speaker 6: I should say non appreciation for the fact that.
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Speaker 2: The rest of us work for a living. Her family
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Speaker 2: works for a living.
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Speaker 6: There is so much more to life than clothes and
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Speaker 6: appearances an image.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that distinguishes this case is the
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Speaker 2: fact that this.
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Speaker 6: Over emphasis on image, on money, on glamour sounds like
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Speaker 6: it absolutely overrode every ounce of judgment that she had
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Speaker 6: and to take that into the courtroom, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 6: Nancy is probably a little bit beyond the pale.
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Speaker 2: So listen to our friends and inside edition. This is
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Speaker 2: Diane mcinernie.
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Speaker 6: This one may look like she is dressed for a
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Speaker 6: fashion show it and her designer does, but the wannabe socialite
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Speaker 6: is actually on trial for swindling hundreds of thousands of
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Speaker 6: dollars from unsuspecting people.
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Speaker 2: She was so concerned.
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Speaker 6: About how she looked in court she actually hired a stylist.
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Speaker 9: Is she in a courtroom or at a red carpet event.
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Speaker 9: Anna Sorrikin is accused of posing as an heiress to
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Speaker 9: live an extravagant lifestyle, But it's what she's wearing to
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Speaker 9: trial that is making headlines. The twenty seven year old
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Speaker 9: defendant showed up wearing a form fitting black dress with
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Speaker 9: a plunging neckline and choker necklace. It's a look that
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Speaker 9: could backfire A Warren stylist Don Karen black.
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Speaker 2: Dress definitely a no.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 10: A hyper sexualize her. It makes her appear to be
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Speaker 10: like a seductress. The choker kind of shows to me
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Speaker 10: that she's trying to.
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Speaker 2: Be overtly sexy.
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Speaker 10: The more sexy she appears to be, it hurts her.
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Speaker 9: Sorikin is so obsessed with her clothes she refused to
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Speaker 9: enter the courtroom because the outfit she was given to
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Speaker 9: wear was not up to her standards. The angry judge
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Speaker 9: told her this is unacceptable and inappropriate. This is not
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Speaker 9: a fashion show, but Soorakin's lawyer, Todd Spodek says accounts
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Speaker 9: of his client delaying the trial because of fashion are
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Speaker 9: being blown out of It's not that she.
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Speaker 11: Didn't want to come out only because of the clothes.
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Speaker 11: She's going through a major criminal trial that's publicized every day,
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Speaker 11: because emotional and it's her life.
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Speaker 1: Don't cry too much for Anna Sorokan. She was living
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Speaker 1: a life that many people, not me, but many people
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Speaker 1: dream of. She made a show of proving she belonged
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Speaker 1: with the rich and famous. Decked out in signature Selene glasses,
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Speaker 1: Coucci sandals, high end boties from net to Porte at
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Speaker 1: least Walker she usually hold up in a four hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars a night room for months on in at Manhattan's
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Speaker 1: very very Luxurious eleven Howard Hotel. Concierge at the hotel
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Speaker 1: said they became friends when she would repeatedly routinely pass
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Speaker 1: out Crisp one hundred dollar tips to both of them
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Speaker 1: and Uber drivers. When I hear the words Crisp one
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, how many hundred dollar bills do you have, Jackie?
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Speaker 1: I don't think I have any. So Jeff Cartiese, former
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Speaker 1: FBI special agent, when I hear the word crisp one
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Speaker 1: hundred dollar bills, that means you just got them out
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Speaker 1: of an ATM or from the bank. So how does
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Speaker 1: she manage to defraud the bank, to get cash, to
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Speaker 1: tip concierge to fake for her.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question, you know. I think it's
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Speaker 5: a numbers game. In many respects. There were multiple banks
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Speaker 5: engaged in her activity. She appears, based on the information,
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Speaker 5: limited her trips back to the same well those she
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Speaker 5: would go back to the same bake on occasion for.
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Speaker 2: Certain banking activity.
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Speaker 5: She did share the wealth amongst the banks within New York,
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Speaker 5: so as not to draw too much attention over an
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Speaker 5: extended period of time.
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Speaker 1: Well, what I understand that she did, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to have to get clarity on this, is that she
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Speaker 1: would provide fake bank records to one bank and then
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Speaker 1: they she was trying to get a massive loan for
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Speaker 1: twenty two million, so she they wanted a down payment,
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Speaker 1: so she faked.
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Speaker 2: Records and got I don't know, fifty to one.
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Speaker 1: Hundred grand from one bank and use that money to
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Speaker 1: get a loan as a down payment on a loan,
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Speaker 1: a bigger loan at another bank, none of the banks
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Speaker 1: realizing what the others were doing. Another thing that really
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Speaker 1: fascinates me, doctor Williams July, and not in a good way.
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Speaker 1: It's like looking at a tarantula under a glass box. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that sort of fascination is the way she carried on
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Speaker 1: this big, huge, imaginary life. She would splash out on
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Speaker 1: shopping sprees at boutiques, very expensive personal training sessions and
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Speaker 1: beautician appointments, and she would always bring along a friend
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Speaker 1: and pay for them and they would be all impressed.
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Speaker 1: The elite, as they call themselves, would go to lavish
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Speaker 1: in large dinners for celebs are as CEOs all in
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Speaker 1: restaurants there in Soho And if you do look at
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Speaker 1: her online, she's always drinking a big glass of wine
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Speaker 1: at some beautiful location. How can an adult have that
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Speaker 1: type of an imaginary life? I mean, I know when
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Speaker 1: children have an imaginary friend, there's all sorts of psychological
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Speaker 1: reasons for that, maybe just security, but an adult.
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Speaker 7: Certainly people can have these types of imaginary lives and
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Speaker 7: they're going to recruit other people just because of the
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Speaker 7: chronological age does not make a person have the maturation
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Speaker 7: that they should have. And then that can be from
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Speaker 7: a lot of different things, but certainly, as much as
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Speaker 7: she can get other people to buy into this, then
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Speaker 7: that's because she's going to continue and she's going to
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Speaker 7: expand that imaginary life. And people can be very charming,
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Speaker 7: They can be very off putting. Excuse me, they can
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Speaker 7: be very charming, and they can be very persuasive, and
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Speaker 7: they can get other people to buy in. There are
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Speaker 7: people that can go into banks and they can fake
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Speaker 7: a story and they can get people to believe it.
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Speaker 7: It happens every day, and this is a person who
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Speaker 7: can do that. And the imaginary fast parts of this.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I haven't examined her, so I can't go
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Speaker 7: so far to say she's delusional or anything like that.
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Speaker 7: But clearly she has the ability maybe a pathological type
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Speaker 7: of chan Some people can do that, and also can
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Speaker 7: remember other people are buying into this because the banks
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Speaker 7: aren't changing credentials properly.
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Speaker 12: Under the name Anna Delvi, she arrived in New York
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Speaker 12: with a high priced wardrobe and was known for handing
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Speaker 12: out one hundred dollars cash tips, reportedly saying at different
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Speaker 12: points that her father was a diplomat, an oil baron,
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Speaker 12: or involved in the solar panel business, none of which
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Speaker 12: are the case. People who knew her said she often
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Speaker 12: asked others to use their credit cards to cover cab
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Speaker 12: and plane fares and then failing to repay them.
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Speaker 1: Our friend Michael Cissak at Time Magazine online, Yeah, there
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Speaker 1: were one story that came out at trial how she
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Speaker 1: hired a PR firm to organize her birthday party in Soho.
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Speaker 1: It emerged she never paid the bill. During her stay
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Speaker 1: at eleven Howard, she struck up a friend there. In
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Speaker 1: addition to the concierges to and as for the recommendations
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Speaker 1: for the very vetty vetty best food in Soho. We
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Speaker 1: also learned that on one occasion she invited friends to
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Speaker 1: dinner at Soho s and bro and the friend ended
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Speaker 1: up paying a whopper massive bill when Soroken's twelve credit
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Speaker 1: cards were all declined, but Sorokin paid her back triple
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Speaker 1: the amount the following day in cash. We also learned
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Speaker 1: that she would go to unique treatments like infrared saunas
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Speaker 1: in the East Village, go out to dinner after celebrity
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Speaker 1: training sessions with Casey Duke, which Soroken also paid for
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Speaker 1: John Limley. How did she get money from one bank
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Speaker 1: to get a loan from another bank? How did that work?
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Speaker 4: It's a very interesting line to follow. How she did this.
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Speaker 4: She would go to a bank and ask for a
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Speaker 4: certain line of credit based on a lot of times
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Speaker 4: just a promise of the fact that she had millions
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Speaker 4: overseas that she could repay the loan, and she would
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Speaker 4: go from one bank with that money to another bank
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Speaker 4: and get an even larger In fact, here's an example,
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Speaker 4: she talked to an exam to an executive with City
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Speaker 4: National Bank into giving her a line of credit on
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Speaker 4: her account for one hundred thousand dollars, promising to repay
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Speaker 4: it with a wire transfer from a European account. She
21:05
Speaker 4: used that money in a failed attempt to secure a
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Speaker 4: twenty five million dollar loan from Fortress Investment Group, and
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Speaker 4: the one of the managing directors at Fortress has said
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Speaker 4: that she ran into problems providing details about the origin
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Speaker 4: of her wealth. Someone actually thought to ask about that.
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Speaker 1: You know, her lines became more and more spectacular. Wendy Patchett,
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Speaker 1: California prosecutor. In fact, she even managed to charter a
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Speaker 1: private plane on one occasion with absolutely zero money.
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Speaker 2: Wendy, how do you do that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: The level of sophistication Nancy, as John was explaining and
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Speaker 6: as we know now looking back, was absolutely stunning. It
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Speaker 6: was almost as if she was daring authorities to catch
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Speaker 6: her in this escalating scheme of sophistication. And you know,
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Speaker 6: the answer to how you do that is the same
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Speaker 6: way we've commit we see people.
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Speaker 2: Committing other crimes.
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Speaker 6: Is sometimes people are so trusting because image matters. You know,
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Speaker 6: this is something I talk about in my book. We
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Speaker 6: tend to attribute all these positive qualities to somebody who
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Speaker 6: comes across as believable, whether they're pretty, or we like
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Speaker 6: what they say, or we're enamored with their axe and
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Speaker 6: or their clothes. All the types of things that Anna
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Speaker 6: used to get ahead can fool other people into letting
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Speaker 6: them acquire the kind of wealth and as you point out,
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Speaker 6: tangible benefits that this young lady did.
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Speaker 1: Don Lemley tell me about the lux treatment she got
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Speaker 1: in Morocco where she ended up stiffing her friend with
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Speaker 1: the bail.
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Speaker 4: Well, when they went to Marrakesh, she went with a
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Speaker 4: friend and she had offered to pay for everything. Now
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Speaker 4: her friend actually offered to help pay, but she said, no, no, no,
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Speaker 4: you work hard for your money, harder for your money
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Speaker 4: than I do. This is my treat, and they would
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Speaker 4: go out for a round of drinks and oops, she
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Speaker 4: forgot her credit cards. So she would ask, you know,
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Speaker 4: very quietly, if the could you know, just cover this
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Speaker 4: one check. And that would happen over and over and
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Speaker 4: over again, and this friend in the end ended up
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Speaker 4: covering the sixty two thousand dollars cost of the flights, dining, shopping,
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Speaker 4: and the stay at a hotel where they had a
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Speaker 4: private villa with a courtyard, a pool and a butler.
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Speaker 4: All the extravagance that you might say was fit for,
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Speaker 4: say a Kardashian.
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Speaker 2: A sixty two thousand dollars vacation that is more.
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Speaker 1: Than most people make an entire year. While in Marrakesh,
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Speaker 1: Morocco Soroken aka delv took part in all the activities
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Speaker 1: the hotel had to offer.
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Speaker 2: For instance, they.
23:47
Speaker 1: Took private tennis lessons. They ate breakfast pool side, a
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Speaker 1: butler would deliver them fresh watermelons and bottles of rose.
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Speaker 1: They run, owned the gardens, relaxed, swam in the villa's private.
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Speaker 2: Pool, took a tour of the.
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Speaker 1: Wine cellar, eight dinner with live Moroccan music, before capping
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Speaker 1: off their knives with cocktails at the Churchill Bar. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is a trip that most people only dream of.
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Speaker 1: And now here's miss thing, having a nearly seventy thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars vacation built on crime.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Nancy, the best things in life are free,
24:36
Speaker 6: and everybody knows that. So when you look at a
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Speaker 6: story like this, part of I think the offense that
24:41
Speaker 6: everyone is taking is to use crime and criminal activity
24:45
Speaker 6: to build a fake world where people pay the kind
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Speaker 6: of money that most of us would never do even
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Speaker 6: if we had it, and you talk about the value
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Speaker 6: of hard work. The way we were all raised, it
24:55
Speaker 6: sounds like those she surrounded herself were really taken with
24:58
Speaker 6: the fact that someone they believe as rich and famous
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Speaker 6: as she was would be interested in them.
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Speaker 2: That is a basic human need.
25:05
Speaker 6: Ironically, that was being satisfied through criming through, as you
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Speaker 6: pointed out earlier, having this imaginary friend that's larger than life.
25:21
Speaker 2: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: Anna Delviy, the fraudster, the con artist, the ripoff star,
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Speaker 1: now whining that she's embarrassed not because she stole from
25:38
Speaker 1: her so called best friends, but because she gained weight
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Speaker 1: behind bars. She says she tried ozimpic, but quote, it
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Speaker 1: just made me depressed. It made me feel like it
25:48
Speaker 1: sucked the life out of me. That's probably how your
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Speaker 1: friends felt after you sucked all the money out of.
25:53
Speaker 2: Their bank accounts.
25:54
Speaker 1: Delvy aka Anna Sorkin listed a long series of beauty
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Speaker 1: treatment she's been having lately, from cupping to laser therapy
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Speaker 1: to vampire facials. Uh where's she getting all that money?
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Speaker 1: Did she make that much on Dancing with the Stars?
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Speaker 1: All I know is that money should be used to
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Speaker 1: pay back all of her victims. Remember her friends banks
26:23
Speaker 1: hotels that she ripped off. You know, I don't know
26:26
Speaker 1: about you, Jeff Cortize, FBI special agent, but I loved
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Speaker 1: it when I would of course, the prosecutor gets in
26:34
Speaker 1: front of an entire jury panel and reads the indictment
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Speaker 1: before you begin jury selection, so everybody knows.
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Speaker 2: Who's charged with what and what all the counts are.
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Speaker 1: And I would love it to say state versus Jeff
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Speaker 1: Cortize aka Charlie Tuna aka the Hammer aka blah.
26:56
Speaker 2: Blah blah, and so forth and so on.
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Speaker 1: I would love reading out ten or twelve aliases and
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Speaker 1: by the time you've done reading that that, Jerry just
27:04
Speaker 1: looks at the person and goes, You're so you're.
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Speaker 2: You're guilty, You're guilty. Why are you? Why do you
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Speaker 2: have twelve aliases?
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Speaker 1: And this girl, I'm telling you, not only had aliases,
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Speaker 1: but she had fake assistance. She lied about her mom
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Speaker 1: and dad who they really are. The reality is that
27:24
Speaker 1: her father was a truck driver and he went on
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Speaker 1: to work at or start a heating and air conditioned business.
27:36
Speaker 1: The friends in school called her Barbie and her favorite movie.
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Speaker 2: Was Mean Girls. And I don't think that's any of
27:46
Speaker 2: that is good.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that means nothing good, Jeff Cartize, No, I agree.
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 5: You hit it on the head. You know, the minute
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Speaker 5: individuals start layering themselves with aliases and aka's, you know,
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Speaker 5: they're putting up walls and barriers that that any jury
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Speaker 5: is going to be able to see through. You know,
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Speaker 5: she really executed a well thought out plan against the banks,
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Speaker 5: using multiple techniques and methods to siphon money from them.
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Speaker 2: You know, from from.
28:16
Speaker 5: Top to bottom. She exploited what people want to see
28:21
Speaker 5: and exploited the type of lifestyle that people want to
28:24
Speaker 5: have to the extent that you know, if I was
28:26
Speaker 5: going to run undercover, I would I would have done
28:28
Speaker 5: many of the techniques that she did in order to
28:31
Speaker 5: manipulate my audience.
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Speaker 1: Well, another aspect to this, John Lemley, is I remember
28:37
Speaker 1: one day when John David came running home in it.
28:41
Speaker 1: So and So's mom is so cool. She works for
28:45
Speaker 1: Chick fil A and she gets free T shirts and
28:49
Speaker 1: she gets this, and she gets that. I think the
28:52
Speaker 1: lady who's very lovely was in marketing or PR and
28:56
Speaker 1: would bring home, you know, like a T shirt or
28:59
Speaker 1: a moocau or what whatever they had, and I thought
29:03
Speaker 1: briefly of creating a different persona to try to impress
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Speaker 1: John Davis's friends, who were then four years old. Okay,
29:14
Speaker 1: but I just decided no, I'm just going to stick
29:16
Speaker 1: with the truth, you know, and let the chips.
29:17
Speaker 2: Fall where they may. But John Lumley, I mean.
29:21
Speaker 1: That would hurt me If I found out the twins
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Speaker 1: were lying about.
29:27
Speaker 2: Their mom and dad, that what we are.
29:31
Speaker 1: Isn't good enough to fit in to their self image
29:35
Speaker 1: they're projecting, that would really hurt my feelers.
29:37
Speaker 4: And that's exactly the way her parents felt about the
29:40
Speaker 4: whole thing. They actually did help fund her through college
29:45
Speaker 4: and as she was getting out on her own, but
29:48
Speaker 4: there was never any sort of trust fund. She moved
29:52
Speaker 4: to Germany in two thousand and seven, and after she
29:56
Speaker 4: dropped out of college, she interned in public relations before
30:00
Speaker 4: were then moving to Paris and became an intern at
30:03
Speaker 4: Purple Magazine. Once she arrived in New York City, she
30:07
Speaker 4: just somehow managed to be in all the sort of
30:10
Speaker 4: right places. And she was this German heiress, according to her,
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Speaker 4: with a father that you would think.
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Speaker 2: With me, Wait a minute, I thought she was supposed
30:20
Speaker 2: to be a Russian heiress.
30:21
Speaker 4: Well, no, she was from Russia, but she told people
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Speaker 4: she was a German heiress. What's really funny, though, is
30:29
Speaker 4: that her German, according to a lot of people, was terrible.
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Speaker 1: M I want you to take a listen to what
30:36
Speaker 1: the defense claims in closing arguments.
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Speaker 13: She had to fake it until she could make it.
30:40
Speaker 13: Those words from the defendant's own attorney, who claimed she
30:43
Speaker 13: never intended to commit a crime, but prosecutors call her
30:46
Speaker 13: a fraud and a liar who would do almost anything
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Speaker 13: to prolong her life of luxury. This morning, the fate
30:54
Speaker 13: of an alleged scam artist is now in the hands
30:57
Speaker 13: of a jury, both sides mapping up arguments for a
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Speaker 13: case that's drawn international outrage. The style savvy defendant even
31:06
Speaker 13: turning heads in court wearing an animal print dress. She
31:09
Speaker 13: called herself Anna Delviy, a fashionable globetrotter who prosecutors say
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Speaker 13: was pretending to be a high flying German heiress living
31:17
Speaker 13: a fairytale life of glitz and glam among Manhattan's elite.
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Speaker 2: That is an order of law and that beyond, prosecutors say.
31:33
Speaker 13: The twenty eight year old, whose real name is Anna Sorrikan,
31:36
Speaker 13: stole two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars from banks, hotels,
31:40
Speaker 13: and friends, all part of an elaborate scheme to keep
31:43
Speaker 13: up her illusion of grandeur. Prosecutors also alleged Sorrikin tried
31:47
Speaker 13: securing a twenty two million dollar loan to operate a
31:50
Speaker 13: private club, claims her lawyer denies.
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Speaker 11: I do not believe she had the intent to ever
31:55
Speaker 11: commit a crime. Whether she owes people money, that's a
31:59
Speaker 11: fact of life. That's that's the reality of doing business.
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Speaker 2: In New York.
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Speaker 13: Now, facing charges of grand larceny and theft, she could
32:05
Speaker 13: spend up to fifteen years in prison if convicted. An
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Speaker 13: official say, even if acquitted, she will be deported to Germany.
32:13
Speaker 13: Sorkin's attorney says she got in over her head but
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Speaker 13: was just buying time until she could pay everyone back.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing our buddy wit Johnson at GMA, at ABC
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Speaker 1: pay everybody back. I saw no signs of paying everybody
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Speaker 1: back and calling this doing business.
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Speaker 2: That's certainly putting perfume on the pig. Now you know
32:32
Speaker 2: there's a problem.
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Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor and author of Red Flags. When
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Speaker 1: the defense to theft and fraud is fake, it till
32:42
Speaker 1: you make it okay, I would not say that that's
32:45
Speaker 1: a valid defense and a fraud case, you're admitting you're
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Speaker 1: faking it.
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Speaker 2: It's probably not a good theme for the defense one.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they're rethinking right about now. You don't want to.
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Speaker 6: That's kind of playing right into the prosecutor's case what
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Speaker 6: they probably were trying to do. Interestingly in trial, and Nancy,
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Speaker 6: you and I have both seen this is really kind
33:05
Speaker 6: of painting this vulnerability picture of the defendant to try
33:08
Speaker 6: to make somebody feel sorry for her that she was
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Speaker 6: caught up in this false lifestyle, felt she had to
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Speaker 6: pretend she was somebody she wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Who can't relate to that.
33:16
Speaker 6: There's a little bit of Anna and all of us,
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Speaker 6: you know some of the themes.
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Speaker 1: We' well, wait, I want to isolate what you just said.
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Speaker 1: The defense argued at trial as if Anna Sorokan aka
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Speaker 1: Anna Delphy was some type of a renegade and a rebel,
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Speaker 1: someone who was, you know, making her own path in
33:37
Speaker 1: the world creatively. B As, don't tell me there's a
33:41
Speaker 1: little bit of Anna Sorocan in me, because that was
33:44
Speaker 1: their defense. There's a little bit of Anna and all
33:46
Speaker 1: of us. Oh uh uh uh no, because she is
33:50
Speaker 1: a fraud, a thief, and she ripped people off and
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Speaker 1: they're never going to get repaid.
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Speaker 2: Wendy, Right, That's what I'm saying that.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's bably why she was convicted, because these defenses
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Speaker 6: are just not realistic to jurors, to hardworking jurors, and
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Speaker 6: just cannot relate to the fact that we are anything
34:09
Speaker 6: like this picture of Anna. Nonetheless, we have seen this
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Speaker 6: defense time and again and thankfully it is not successful.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
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Speaker 13: The courtroom drama played out late into the evening. At
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Speaker 13: one point the jury appeared deadlock, the defense asking for
34:23
Speaker 13: a mistrial, but then the verdict, jurors agreeing with the
34:27
Speaker 13: prosecution that anahsauricin built her fairytale life on a foundation
34:31
Speaker 13: of theft and lives. Overnight, a New York City jury
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Speaker 13: finding socialite anasauricin a so called SOHO grifter guilty on
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Speaker 13: eight counts, including grand larceny, attempted grand larceny, and theft
34:45
Speaker 13: of services. Prosecutors arguing the twenty eight year old stole
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Speaker 13: a quarter of a million dollars from banks, hotels and
34:51
Speaker 13: friends to fund a lavish lifestyle to jurors.
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Speaker 11: Obviously believed our point of view and followed our logic
34:58
Speaker 11: and acquitted her of the top charges. I'm sad and
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Speaker 11: that she.
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Speaker 12: Was convicted of some of the other charges.
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Speaker 13: Prosecutors say the Russian born Sorkin, who called herself Anna Delvi,
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Speaker 13: was pretending to be a high flying German heiress living
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Speaker 13: a life of glamour among Manhattan's elite authority. To say,
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Speaker 13: she even forged financial documents hoping to get a twenty
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Speaker 13: two million dollar loan to open a private club in
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Speaker 13: the Big Apple.
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Speaker 2: A word of legal advice, I'm solicited. I'll give it
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Speaker 2: to you for free. Delvi b Quiet silence is golden.
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Speaker 1: Keep all those special feelings to yourself and they'll be
35:35
Speaker 1: even more special. We wait as just as unfolds, I
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Speaker 1: predict we have not heard the last from Anna Delby
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Speaker 1: aka Anna Suckti