A hedge fund manager's assistant has now turned to social media in order to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars she has to pay him in restitution after pleading guilty of grand larceny.
Renata Shamrokova, the 28-year-old personal assistant to Nicky Hilton’s former husband, admitted in court that she stole nearly $1million from him.
Now she is trying to raise the first portion of the mandated $821,000 in restitution that she has to give back to Meister in order to avoid spending a year or two in jail.
She has posted an appeal on Go Fund Me, a crowdsourcing site, where she wrote out an emotional plea and posted a black-and-white photo of herself covering her mouth.
'I was held in prison for 13 days without proper medical care or a voice to speak out,' she wrote on the site.
Read more: Renata Shamrakova: Hedge fund manager's assistant now asking strangers to help her avoid jail by launching social media campaign to raise $821,000 | Mail Online
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