Defendant Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a woman has pleaded
guilty to Attempted Petit Larceny, a misdemeanor, for attempting to steal money from a
man.
District Attorney Clark said “We consulted with the victims in this case and they both
agreed to the plea agreement reached. The defendant has already served nearly a year in
jail.”
District Attorney Clark said that the defendant, Svetlana Travis Zakharova, 27, a
Russian national, pleaded guilty to Attempted Petit Larceny today before Manhattan
Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon and was sentenced to 90 days in jail. A two-year
order of protection was issued for the victim. District Attorney Clark’s office handled the
case after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. recused himself.
District Attorney Clark said that the defendant pleaded guilty to committing the
crime of Attempted Petit Larceny, a B Misdemeanor, in that in or about June, 2014, she
attempted to steal money from the victim for rent owed for a Manhattan apartment.
The plea covers the indictment involving this victim and Eliot Spitzer, from whom
the defendant was alleged to have extorted money by threatening to reveal her personal
relationship with him, and to expose intimate details to the media and Spitzer’s wife and
family if he did not pay.
