From the Daily Mail: A GOP Congressman staffer was discovered crying and bound by zip ties inside a New Jersey nature reserve with the words ‘Trump wh—‘ written on her stomach and cuts across her face, neck, chest and shoulders.
A frantic 911 call came in on the night of July 23 reporting that three men had attacked Natalie Greene, one allegedly brandishing a firearm and threatening to shoot her while mentioning her boss’s name.
The former Rutgers Law School student said the attack took place after she received threats while working at the congressional office for New Jersey Republican Representative Jeff Van Drew.
But after the FBI questioned her, Greene’s elaborate story began to unravel, resulting in the young staffer being charged with making false statements after she was accused of faking the attack on herself.
Greene was found in tears, bound by her hands, feet, and even around her neck, with black zip ties. She also had distinct-looking laceration marks all over her body, and told an FBI agent that two men had grabbed her, threw her on the round and tied her up. She claimed that the men hit her in the head, threatened to shoot her, pulled up her shirt, and used something to scrape and cut her body.
Police later discovered just how Greene obtained those markings on her body – she had sought the services of a tattoo artist: “Greene travelled to a Pennsylvania tattoo and body-modification studio at at around 2pm that afternoon and paid $500 in cash to have cuts and markings made across her face, neck, back and shoulders with a scalpel.”
And the zip ties? Police searched her car the same night of the 911 call, and found extra zip ties in her car, identical to the ones she had been bound with.
Investigators later learned that Greene’s friend had played a role in the scheme. The friend had conducted an online search for ‘zip ties near me’ and was then seen on surveillance video buying them at a Dollar General Store on July 21.
Police started pulling data from her cell phone the very next day after they found Greene, and on July 25, Greene was accused of making materially false statements to federal investigators. She was formally indicted on November 14, and now faces up to ten years in prison, $500,000 in fines and up to six years of supervised release if she is found guilty.
CLICK HERE to read the DOJ criminal complaint on the stunning case, which includes photos of the markings found on Greene’s body.
Greene had reportedly begun working part-time for Rep. Van Drew in 2022. She started law school last fall. A spokesperson for Rep. Jeff Van Drew said Greene is no longer employed there.
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🚨🇺🇸 VAN DREW STAFFER FAKED ATTACK, PAID $500 TO CARVE ‘TRUMP WHORE’ ON HERSELF
Federal prosecutors charged 26-year-old Natalie Greene with staging an elaborate hoax where she claimed three men assaulted her for working for Rep. Jeff Van Drew.
The Rutgers law student actually… pic.twitter.com/pWc3zgcYuX
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