Soccer Mom Lady Anna Gristina is playing hide-and-seek with his money, say prosecutors.
Following the money trail of accused brothel operator upper East Side is so difficult that investigators are having trouble proving that she is not poverty.
Judge Juan Merchan asked prosecutors Wednesday to take a full account of his assets to see if she qualifies for his defense attorney taxpayer-paid.
Assistant District Attorney Charles Linehan "is going to be very hard," he told a judge.
"We are trying to identify and seize bank accounts," he said, but after five years of investigation in high-end prostitution and corruption, the money trail has become cold.
"We've had bank accounts, years ago, then went off the map. And now we are trying to understand the new bank accounts based on stuff that we recovered from the search warrant and freezing everything. "
The Prosecutor said that she could not gristina lives at home or apartment where the e. 78th St. cathouse.
The lawyer for the suburban MOM told the judge that she was barely scraping by.
"There are a lot of disconnect warnings," said his lawyer Richard Syracuse. "The Bills are not being paid."
But prosecutors say poverty crying does not fly. They have a lady on tape bragging about how lucrative trade in the skin is and sources have said that has raked in more than 10 million dollars over the past 15 years.
"I'm not stupid. I don't have a House of 2 million dollars and claim $ 30,000 per year to the IRS, "she was heard saying on the tape.
Prosecutors have their cut off for them — the money might not be in the United States.
"All of my accounts are located outside of the country under another name," she was also heard on the tape.
Meanwhile, police are still hunting for foxy fugitive Jaynie Mae Baker, the wonderful 30 years charged with promoting prostitution with Gristina.
Don't ask her father, though.
Jody Baker, a civilian employee Scott Air Force base, Illinois, she hasn't seen in more than 20 years and was flabbergasted to learn that authorities said her baby was wrapped in it.
"I'm shocked, disorientated," he said outside his home in Mascoutah, ill. "I love you and I miss you, and I hope that she does the right thing," he said. "I don't know what else to say. I'm going to start crying. "
With George Pawlaczyk
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