SPECIAL EPISODE: The Real Crimes of the Fake German Heiress

Break in the Case

New York Citiy Police Department

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, came to New York City from Germany in 2014 and quickly became a fixture in the downtown social scene. She claimed to be an heiress with a vast fortune. But she wasn’t quite what she said she was. In August 2017, she was indicted on an array of financial and fraud-based crimes, including Attempted Grand Larceny. In this special episode, the NYPD detective who led the investigation into Sorokin explains her crimes. What did she do, and how did she do it?

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0:00.0	This was one of my first cases that I got when I came to financial crimes, so I was all
0:06.7	ears.
0:07.7	I said, give me everything and anything that you possibly have on this alleged suspect
0:13.0	on any of the banking.
0:15.2	Detective Michael McCaffrey is a member of the NYPD's Financial Crimes Task Force.
0:19.2	Five years ago, he investigated a case of bank fraud.
0:21.8	City National Bank explains to me that an individual stated she was a German aeris and
0:26.6	she was looking for about a $22 million loan to open up some sort of social club in Lower
0:31.8	Manhattan.
0:32.8	This individual, who we found out later, was Anna Sorokin, provided two bank documents
0:37.2	showing that she was worth about 59 million euro.
0:40.6	Anna then told City National Bank that this money was tied up overseas and due to tax
0:45.5	implications, she had no access to it, but she was still good for the money.
0:49.2	Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvie, the fake German aeris, was a 26-year-old Russian
0:54.4	born German citizen with a taste for luxury brands and meals at Manhattan's finest restaurants.
0:59.8	She lived downtown in a series of boutique hotels.
1:09.0	During a four month span from 2016 to 2017, she attempted to defraud banks at a $52 million
1:16.0	and committed a few other crimes along the way.
1:18.5	Her crimes were so audacious that publicity surrounding her arrest and trial elevated
1:22.7	her to the status of social media icon.
1:25.2	Is she in a courtroom or at a red carpet event?
1:28.2	Sorokin's case even capturing Hollywood's attention.
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