Since the emergence of the Omicron variant, COVID-19 has surged through ICE detention centers. “As COVID-19 continues to spread in ICE detention facilities, Plaintiffs fear for their health and safety. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at detention facilities while they await adjudication of their civil immigration cases,” the lawsuit states. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. “Plaintiffs are medically vulnerable people held by U.S. All four claim that their medical conditions put them at particular risk for COVID-19 infection. Three other immigration detainees being held in facilities in Arizona and California- Miguel Angel Escalante, Kenet Jefet Hernandez Herrera, and Ramon Dominguez Gonzalez-are named as co-plaintiffs. “She is an otherwise qualified person with a disability under the Rehabilitation Act.” “She has several medical conditions that make her vulnerable to serious illness or death from COVID-19, including a chronic kidney infection as well as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder,” the class action lawsuit states. Originally held inside the Bergen County Correctional Facility in New Jersey, she was transferred to a facility roughly 66 miles northwest of New York City. Now represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, Sorokin has been awaiting deportation to Germany after serving less than two years of her four to 12 year sentence, but she says her immigration detention has not been easy.
The length, scale and ambition of Sorokin’s scheme attracted constant tabloid headlines and a viral New York Magazine profile by journalist Jessica Pressler, later optioned for a Netflix series “Inventing Anna.” The series boasted record viewership, if middling reviews, with one particularly scathing write-up slamming the show’s “quasi-feminist, girlboss-adjacent” pretensions. She was convicted on May 9, 2019, following a trial that laid bare her years-long deceptions of the elite between 20. The so-called “fake heiress” played down her Russian-German origins with the pseudonym Anna Delvey when she duped the wealthy and powerful, leading to her grand larceny prosecution for stealing more than $275,000 from major financial institutions, banks, hotels, and acquaintances in the United States.
In a class action complaint filed with three other detainees, Sorokin claims that she tested positive for coronavirus behind bars in January, after staff at the Orange County Correctional Facility rejected multiple requests for a booster shot. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)Ĭon artist Anna Sorokin has a new courtroom drama on the horizon, filing a federal lawsuit to obtain a COVID-19 booster in immigration lockup. Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin is led away after being sentenced in Manhattan Supreme Court on May 9, 2019, following her conviction on multiple counts of grand larceny and theft of services.
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