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Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin Failed to Pay Over $150,000 in Legal Fees, Her Former Attorney Claims
Anna Sorokin—the fake German heiress who used the name “Anna Delvey” to defraud an estimated $275,000 from hotels, friends, and banks—is now reportedly facing a lawsuit from her former lawyer.
Sorokin hired Audrey A. Thomas in 2020 to help her in an immigration case and to appeal her conviction, Insider reported citing documents from the lawsuit. In April 2022, Sorokin fired Thomas. However, Sorokin has failed to deliver payment on more than $152,000 in legal services.
Thomas says her former client lied to get out of paying “astronomical legal fees” by filing false allegations against her to the grievance committee. “The false statements by [Sorokin] against Plaintiffs’ interest were made for the sole purpose of causing injury to Plaintiffs and to damage Plaintiffs’ reputation and standing, in the community,” the complaint stated.
It is not clear what those false allegations were. Thomas and Sorokin did not respond to Robb Report inquiries.
New York Post has reported that Thomas herself faces criminal prosecution after being accused of stealing from an elderly client. She was disbarred over the incident in November. The complaint stated that the disbarment “was not related to the facts or circumstances that gave rise to this lawsuit.”
Sorokin’s four-year con allowed her to enjoy to live at luxury hotels and frequent New York City’s elite social circles. She was convicted in 2019 of grand larceny and theft of services. She served nearly four years in prison and is currently under house arrest in an East Village apartment, according to Insider. Her story was depicted in the Netflix series Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner.
Earlier this year, CBS News reported that Sorokin will launch a podcast called “The Anna Delvey Show.” Sorokin says in a trailer for the Audio Up and Reunion Audio production: “You might recognize my name as a character in a Netflix series, but now, you get to meet the real me.” She added that the show “will dive into the concept of rules and talk with the people who create or break them, from art, politics, fashion, tech, finance, law and more.”
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No perjury charges for British soldiers accused of lying in Bloody Sunday probe
- 15 British soldiers accused of lying in an inquiry regarding Bloody Sunday will not be charged with perjury, prosecutors announced Friday.
- Bloody Sunday was one of the deadliest days of the Troubles, a decades-long regional conflict. 13 civilians were killed by members of the British Parachute Regiment in Derry.
- Victims’ families expressed outrage at the decision, with John Kelly — whose brother, Michael, was killed on Bloody Sunday — calling it an “affront to the rule of law.”
Fifteen British soldiers who allegedly lied to an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict, will not face perjury charges, prosecutors said Friday.
There was insufficient evidence to convict the soldiers or a former alleged member of the Irish Republican Army about their testimony before an inquiry into the 1972 killings of 13 civilians by Britain’s Parachute Regiment in Derry, also known as Londonderry, the Public Prosecution Service said.
An initial investigation into the slayings on Jan. 30, 1972 concluded the soldiers were defending themselves from a mob of IRA bombers and gunmen. But a 12-year-long inquiry concluded in 2010 that soldiers unjustifiably opened fire on unarmed and fleeing civilians and then lied about it for decades.
FORMER BRITISH SOLDIER TO STAND TRIAL FOR 1972 ‘BLOODY SUNDAY’ KILLINGS IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Families of the victims were outraged by the decision. John Kelly, whose brother Michael was killed by paratroopers, spoke for the group and called it an “affront to the rule of law.”
“Why is it that the people of Derry cannot forget the events of Bloody Sunday, yet the Parachute Regiment, who caused all of the deaths and injury on that day, apparently cannot recall it?” Kelly said. “The answer to this question is quite simple but painfully obvious: The British Army lied its way through the conflict in the north.”
Although a quarter century has passed since the Good Friday peace accord in 1998 largely put to rest three decades of violence involving Irish republican and British loyalist militants and U.K. soldiers, “the Troubles″ still reverberate. Some 3,600 people were killed — most in Northern Ireland, though the IRA also set off bombs in England.
Only one ex-paratrooper from Bloody Sunday, known as Soldier F, faces prosecution for two murders and five attempted murders. He was among the 15 soldiers who could have faced a perjury charge.
While victims continue to seek justice for past carnage, the possibility of a criminal prosecution could soon vanish.
The British government passed a Legacy and Reconciliation Bill last year that would have given immunity from prosecution for most offenses by militant groups and British soldiers after May 1. But a Belfast judge ruled in February that the bill does not comply with human rights law. The government is appealing the ruling.
Attorney Ciaran Shiels, who represents some of the Bloody Sunday families, said they would not rule out further legal action.
“It is of course regrettable that this decision has been communicated to us only today, some 14 years after the inquiry’s unequivocal findings, but less than two weeks before the effective enactment date of the morally bankrupt legacy legislation designed specifically to allow British Army veterans to escape justice for its criminal actions in the north of Ireland,” Shiels said.
Senior Public Prosecutor John O’Neill said the decision not to bring criminal charges was based on three things: accounts given by soldiers in 1972 were not admissible; much of the evidence the inquiry relied on is not available today; and the inquiry’s conclusion that testimony was false did not always meet the criminal standard of proof.
“I wish to make clear that these decisions not to prosecute in no way undermine the findings of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that those killed or injured were not posing a threat to any of the soldiers,” O’Neill said.
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