ABC's Whoopi Goldberg accuses her own network of hiring a fraudster on “Dancing With the Stars”

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at her own network ABC for casting convicted felon and con artist Anna “Delvey” Sorokin on “Dancing With the Stars,” who will appear this season wearing an ankle bracelet.

“I think back to the families whose family members were arrested by ICE. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] who have gone to court to get their father or their brother or their mother back, and this woman got her permission to do it. Am I supposed to think there's a reason? Is there a two-tier system here at ICE?” Goldberg said.

Sorokin was released from federal custody in October 2022 after serving 17 months in prison and has been under house arrest since then. The story of Sorokin, who infamously pretended to have a net worth of $70 million while living a lavish lifestyle in New York, inspired the hit Netflix series “Inventing Anna.”

“I don't understand why she gets to stay,” Goldberg said, after co-host Joy Behar suggested it was because Sorokin was “pretty.” “I listen to people complaining about what's happening at the border, and I listen to people complaining about all these people who shouldn't be here, so what the hell, man? How does that work?”

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg slams ABC for sending convicted con artist Anna “Delvey” Sorokin to “Dancing With the Stars.” (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

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Sorokin, born in the former Soviet Union, had defrauded a network of financial institutions and New York's elite by tricking them into believing she owned assets abroad. She was convicted of four cases of theft of services, three cases of aggravated theft and one case of attempted aggravated theft in 2019.

“We have to support the network, I understand that,” Goldberg said of ABC, before pointing to her chin and saying it was a serious slap in the face “to many people who have tried to come back to this country.”

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The other co-hosts were also not enthusiastic about Sorokin's participation in the show.

“When you think about it, she defrauded so many people and then spent two years in prison and then had to spend another 18 months in prison for overstaying her permit and visa. So she committed another crime and what are the, I don't know, consequences of that? A jeweled ankle bracelet, a jeweled government ankle bracelet and an appearance on a television show,” co-host Sunny Hostin said earlier in the discussion.

Newly released Anna Sorokin waves from a New York window on October 10, 2022. (Dario Alequin for Fox News Digital)

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Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin urged the other candidates to watch out for Sorokin.

“She still owes people money and scammers tend to be scammers,” Griffin said.

The “View” co-hosts took aim at the Netflix series “Inventing Anna” in a 2023 episode of their show, when Goldberg and Hostin criticized Sorokin’s release from ICE custody.

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“I mean, she's a young, blonde woman with a certain complexion, and that's probably part of it… Part of what I find fascinating is that she got $300,000 from Netflix for this show,” Hostin said, referring to the streamer's hit show at the time.