A Maryland Democrat State Senator was charged with extortion for threatening to release a sexually explicit video of a former political consultant.
According to charging documents, State Senator Dalya Attar, her brother Joseph Attar, and Baltimore police officer Kalman Finkelstein conspired to release a video of a former campaign consultant in bed with a married man.
The purpose of the threat was to silence the campaign consultant and stop her from making any negative remarks about Dalya Attar that could harm her political ambitions after the two had a falling out.
Recording devices that looked like smoke detectors captured the victim’s affair. The unnamed consultant was staying in an apartment owned by Officer Finkelstein’s family.
Dalya Attar, an Orthodox Jew, sought to harm the political consultant’s effort to marry off her daughter. The smear campaign could damage the political consultant’s reputation because she is also a member of the tight-knit Jewish community.
Dalya Attar did not want the Orthodox Jewish community to be aware of her liberal voting record.
“She wants her daughters to get married more than she wants to screw me,” Dalya Attar wrote in a WhatsApp message, NBC News reported.
Dalya Attar was charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, extortion via interstate communications, aiding and abetting, and interception and disclosure of a wire, oral, or electronic communication.
Joseph Attar allegedly threatened the married man and told him that he commented on Dalya Attar’s voting record he would release the video.
“I’ll share this video with everybody you know, everyone she knows, every Rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters,” Joseph Attar allegedly told the consultant’s paramour.
Fox News reported:
A Democratic state senator from Maryland is accused of orchestrating a scheme to secretly record two critics — including a former campaign consultant — in bed together and then using the footage to threaten and silence them, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment.
Federal prosecutors say Maryland State Sen. Dalya Attar, her brother Joseph “Yossi” Attar and Baltimore Police Officer Kalman Finkelstein secretly filmed the pair during an intimate encounter, then used the recording to intimidate them into silence.
The 20-page indictment, unsealed Thursday, charges the trio with conspiracy, extortion, illegal wiretapping and violations of the Travel Act.
Prosecutors allege the group targeted the consultant, identified as Victim 1, who had worked for Attar’s 2018 campaign and later supported her political rivals. Victim 2 was in a romantic relationship with Victim 1 and was married to another person at the time, the documents say.
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