INVENTING ANNA: A Tale of a Fake Heiress, Mar-A-Lago, and an FBI Investigation

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BY MICHAEL SALLAH AND JONATHAN D. SILVER, POST-GAZETTE
KEVIN G. HALL AND BRIAN FITZPATRICK, ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION REPORTING PROJECT
AUGUST 26, 2022

PALM BEACH, Fla. — For a time, Anna de Rothschild boasted of her family roots to the European banking dynasty, donning designer clothes, a Rolex watch, and driving a $170,000 black Mercedes-Benz SUV.

She talked about developing a sprawling luxury housing project on Emerald Bay in the Bahamas, a high-rise hotel in Monaco, and a Formula One race track in Miami, say people who knew her.

A pivotal moment for the woman who was fluent in several languages took place last year when she was invited to Mar-a-Lago, where she mingled with former President Donald Trump’s supporters and showed up the next day for a golf outing with Mr. Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham among other political luminaries.



But the 33-year-old woman was not a member of the famous banking family, and is now a subject of a widening FBI investigation that has delved into her past financial activities and the events that led her to the former president’s home.

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Exposes like this are why Benedict Donald's hoarding of government documents is so troublesome. That the daughter of an Illinois truck driver whose real name is Anna Yashchyshyn and is being investigated for fraud in Canada gained access to Benedict Donald's inner circle is unbelievable.

[vlyons]

1. Birds of a feather flock together

and why wouldn't a con artist be attracted to hanging out with other con artists. Maybe get in on a little action.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Con artist, thief, liar, possible spy. Who knows?

[Irish_Dem]

2. Someone like her would listen to Trump brag about stolen docs, then sneak to the storage location.

And help herself.

[subterranean]

10. I bet she wouldn't even have to sneak.

The former president would probably show her the stolen documents willingly, just to try to impress her.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes it is quite likely Trump took people on classified document tours.

Entirely consistent with his need to brag, seek fame and adoration.

[KS Toronado]

19. Classified document tours were to get bids.

Be cool if the FBI found his notes who was bidding on what and for how much $$$.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Kushner and Flynn had already determined the cash value of each document.

So Trump told the bidders the starting dollar number.

[calimary]

32. None of this should surprise ANYBODY.

Except the willfully blind and loyal to - um - a fault.

[Irish_Dem]

33. Past behavior predicts future behavior. And Trump is a con man and criminal.

None of this should surprise anyone.

[calimary]

50. Yep! And those of us who've watched him and taken note have known this for many moons.

What just really shocks, and disappoints me, is how long this skulduggery has been visible, out on plain sight. And NOTHING was ever said, or made note of, or written about, or in ANY way viewed askance.

Does anybody remember an uproar when the Orange Turd invited all those Russians into the Oval Office, early in his "term", and showed them around, and a Russian new crew was in there covering it, and NO American media was there. NONE. NO network. NO major newspaper. NO radio network. NO bigtime blogger or internet commentator. Not even anybody from the Republican party!

Did anybody - even among OUR media or muckrakers or investigative reporters or anybody - ANYBODY - even notice, or ask why that was?

Maybe somebody here remembers, and I'd love to hear about it. Cuz I don't remember any such thing.

Is that when he started giving our secrets away? To win brownie points with Putin? To thank Putin for whatever help the Russian boss provided to tip the 2016 election to him? To sweeten the deal for construction of Trump Moscow? Maybe all three? Or maybe more than even those?

I learned from long observation of the donald never to trust a slickie-boy like him any farther than I could throw my house.

[Irish_Dem]

53. Yes many of his crimes were brazen, in front of TV cameras.

If these high crimes are the ones he showed us, what in the holy hell did he do in secret?

Right why are we the only ones paying attention and caring about our country?

How does the FBI, CIA, Military Intelligence not notice what we saw all along.

How does the DOJ and FBI let Trump have secret documents in his unlocked basement for a year and a half?

Trump is a long time criminal and opportunistic predator and crook. It is safe to assume he started a crime spree the same day he entered the White House.

[calimary]

54. Well, maybe it was a higher-level crime spree.

I doubt his first one started the day he entered the White House. THAT crime spree was just an extension of what he already had going, but not yet under the protection of his being president.

Since it's him, I'd suspect, he already had a slew of high crimes either already underway or just wrapped up. He was just shifting everything into a much higher gear, and with a VASTLY broader reach.

I can't help but suspect the last time he was provably innocent was when he was still in diapers and not old enough to walk or talk yet.

[Irish_Dem]

55. Yes, Trump has been committing crimes since childhood.

That is why his parents had to send him to military school. The story is that he used to beat up his teachers.

I meant the WH crime spree started the day he crossed the WH threshold.

Yes the presidency for Trump was like a kid in a candy store.
So many opportunities, so many ways to steal from the US taxpayer, so many goodies to sell.

And the most delicious part of all, is that if you are president they let you do it.

No one would touch him for any crime he committed.

He must have been ecstatic and we know he was unstoppable.

[vlyons]

34. and grab her by the you know what

[dchill]

3. Crooked minds grift alike.

They're just hangin'.

[MN2theMax]

5. Interesting

On Netflix there is currently a nine episode series called "Inventing Anna" based Anna Sorokin, a German scammer. In the beginning credits it always states, "This whole story is completely true. Except the parts that are totally made up." Very similar story, but a different Anna altogether.

Maybe they can do this Anna's story as season two.

[Mme. Defarge]

9. A guilty pleasure.

I binge watched it earlier in the year. 🙃

[geardaddy]

16. We loved that show.

[IronLionZion]

21. Maybe some day they'll have an "Inventing Donald"

as his lifetime of fraud finally takes him down

[betsuni]

58. I watched it and had a hard time believing how she got away with it until one of the

characters said Anna had a peasant face and that nobody who wasn't legitimately wealthy could get away with that in their world of the rich. Also, everyone said she had great fashion sense but it was only wearing off the rack designer clothes. Like Ivanka, poorly-fitting off the rack absurdly expensive clothes. Anyone too beautiful and creative would be suspect!

[Tanuki]

6. K &R. There may be much more to this Russian-speaking "Anna'

than meets the eye.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Young, good looking Russian female with a shady history.

Sounds like the kind of gal Putin would send to MAL.

[geardaddy]

20. She's Ukrainian apparently

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[Irish_Dem]

23. It is well known Putin installed his puppets all over Ukraine. Just like here in the US.

[geardaddy]

27. Yes, I know that. There are tons of Russians in Ukraine

[Irish_Dem]

29. Yes she could be Russian.

[geardaddy]

39. Right, a Russian-Ukrainian

I'm not arguing with you on her ethnic background. I just saw in an article that she is from Ukraine. Like you said probably a Russian-Ukrainian.

Exact quote from the article:

whose real name is Inna Yashchyshyn, a Russian-speaking immigrant from Ukraine,

[Irish_Dem]

40. We really don't know. If she is a Putin agent her documents were made to order for her assignment.

[geardaddy]

41. Right, I'm just posting what the article says

I'm not disputing that she could be a Putin asset

[IronLionZion]

35. Many Russian speaking Ukrainians were pro-Russia

while the Ukrainian speaking ones were pro-west

[geardaddy]

38. Yep, there are lots of Russians in Ukraine

[Maraya1969]

7. Does anyone else think they are referring to their assholes when they stick their thumbs up like

that? It's my first thought and I usually can't get past it.

[Probatim]

13. They don't know how to smile or do a thumbs up.

Something is wrong in the wiring.

[llmart]

52. I absolutely get repulsed when I see him do that stupid thumbs up thing.

Well, to be honest, I'm repulsed at every picture I see of him.

[Ohioboy]

8. Cons conning cons

Reminds me of that Steve Martin and Michael Caine movie "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".

[lindysalsagal]

49. Awesome.

[allegorical oracle]

57. HA! A cons conning cons convention... (that film's one of my favs) nt

[housecat]

14. How many Annas have been there

[Traildogbob]

15. Graham needs

To crash and burn like trump. Reactivate him to the military and court marshal his lying traitorous ass, end his benefits and Brig his sorry ass for decades.

[IronLionZion]

17. "I am the victim right now, that's all I can tell you," she said in an interview.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that so many shady people and sketchy things surround the stable genius who kept classified documents in his house.

The real problem is Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop.

Little information is public about Ms. Yashchyshyn, who once worked for a suburban Miami business that specializes in providing pregnant Russian mothers the option to have their babies in the U.S. to gain citizenship, court records show.

[AKwannabe]

31. Asset much? Oh boy! nt

[geardaddy]

18. She's got bigger hands that TFG

and Lindsay!

[H2O Man]

24. Recommended.

Very important.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

25. Wow.

That read like a spy novel.

[allegorical oracle]

26. Lindsey looks sorta teensy in that picture... just an observation.... nt

[Sky Jewels]

37. Especially with the contrast to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man next to him.

[Blue Owl]

47. Little Lindsey...

Such a little, little man...

[chowder66]

30. Why bother checking backgrounds? They are all morally corrupt.

[Sky Jewels]

36. JFC. Nobody could make up a fraction of these plot twists for the most

over-the-top screenplay ever written.

[ffr]

42. Look at the two useful idiots!

JHC!

[Warpy]

43. Like all new money, TFG will always be dazzled by people with pedigrees

(and no, I'm not talking about rap sheets). He's no different from the Robber Barons of the late 19th, early 205h century who scouted Europe for threadbare castles and palaces, had entire rooms dismantled and reassembled in their Newport "cottages," ostensibly to impress their titled original owners.

The one thing these guys want is to become a domestic aristocracy, so they're often taken in by fake titles.

[Stinky The Clown]

44. She resembles the very creative and talented Catherine Reitman

[Aaeia]

45. This & what about this?

I wonder about the correlation of him having those top secret docs & the advent of Putin invading the Ukraine. How many other countries has his perfidity put at high risk?

[ffr]

51. Peter Strzok: "a real world example of a nightmare counterintel scenario"

Well this is not ideal - and a real world example of a nightmare counterintel scenario.

As someone noted, the only screening at Mar a Lago appears to be the questions "Will you work for minimum wage?" or "Has their membership initiation check cleared?"

[Hekate]

46. KnR

[Blue Owl]

48. She looks like the hybrid of MTG and Boebert

[Beetwasher.]

56. Photo Taken May 2021

Post president period. The cutout is outed.

Now, Imagine if she’s been found to have been in possession of copies of some of the missing documents.