You’ve seen the show. This is the real defense.
Anna Sorokin - known to New York as Anna Delvey - faced multiple felony charges, including grand larceny and theft of services. Todd Spodek took the case others called unwinnable. Netflix made it Inventing Anna.
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Anna Sorokin was accused of posing as a wealthy German heiress and trying to infiltrate New York City’s elite social scene in order to swindle banks, hotels, and individuals out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The tabloids had already convicted her. The case captivated the national spotlight.
Our defense strategy was innovative: portray Sorokin as an ambitious young woman who got in over her head while chasing the American dream - arguing her behavior was not criminal but reflective of the culture of New York’s elite, where “fake it till you make it” is a common ethos.
The jury acquitted on the most serious charge - the alleged $22 million loan scheme - and acquitted again on a headline count. A case the tabloids had closed became a defense the world watched, and then streamed in 196 countries.
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Your case will probably never be a Netflix series. It gets the same defense anyway: the unwinnable taken seriously, a strategy built from who you actually are, and a jury addressed without fear. That is the standard this file set.
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