They pressed her over and over, pushed a list of 10 Big Apple power players at her — and demanded she spill the beans on the roster of real-estate moguls and investment bankers.
“Some I knew, some I didn’t,” accused Upper East Side brothel boss Anna Gristina told The NY Post yesterday about an hours-long grilling she received from Manhattan prosecutors.
But they kept pressing, bringing in more and more investigators to intimidate her.
“In effect, it was, ‘Tell us what we want, and we’ll let you go,’ ” Gristina said. But her defiance, she believes, is what led them to charge her with a single count of prostitution.
And that’s when she realized she must be part of a much larger investigation.
“It’s not about me; it’s bigger than me,” Gristina said during an exclusive interview at Rikers Island, where she remains jailed.
“They’re trying to sweat me out. They are clearly trying to break me.” The self-described “hockey mom” and real-estate developer claims to have no idea why prosecutors are so intent on digging up dirt on those men — half of whom she said she knew as either friends or business associates.
“I’d bite my tongue off before I’d tell them anything,” Gristina vowed.
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