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Dalya Attar is a state senator in Maryland.

Dalya Attar has been indicted on federal charges of, believe it or not, extortion. Most of the time, it is mail or wire fraud, often in conjunction with bribery. Extortion is so rare, let us savor that for a moment. The indictment was handed down October 23rd, but I’m only seeing reports of it today.

Reports say that there were two people who were “detracting from or negatively influencing her election campaigns”.

The conspiracy purportedly involved planting tracking and recording devices and, after obtaining footage of the unnamed victims “in bed,” threatening its release with demands.

This dates back to 2020, when she was working on her re-election to the Maryland House of Delegates. Reports say she had a falling out with a consultant who had previously worked on her 2018 campaign. The consultant became a vocal critic of Ms. Attar, and Ms. Attar wanted her to be “a non-issue in my mind”.

Ms. Attar allegedly conspired with her brother and a Baltimore police officer.

…and others involved in the plot allegedly placed a tracker on the consultant’s car and installed hidden cameras in a smoke detector in an apartment the victim used to rendezvous with her married paramour.
“Damn, I wish I had [the man’s] stamina,” Finklestein stated in a WhatsApp voice message after installing the cameras, according to the indictment.

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In December 2021, Joseph Attar allegedly met with the man who’d had an affair with the consultant at a Baltimore-area shopping center and claimed to have “hours of footage of you in bed with [her] … the only thing you need to do is very simple, is go to [the consultant] and tell her, leave Dalya alone. Don’t bring her up anymore to anyone. Stay out of this election … and make sure she doesn’t do anything against Dalya.”
According to the indictment, Joseph Attar also told the man that if he didn’t do what he asked, “I’ll share this video with everybody you know, everyone she knows, every Rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters … I already have all her daughters’ phone numbers, right? And every shadchan [matchmaker] in Israel who is trying to set up her daughters, I’ll share these videos with.”

Sen. Attar wasn’t elected to the Senate: she was appointed in January, but she is currently running for the seat.

Court filings show, however, that the senator is in custody, as are her brother, who is a real estate developer, and Finkelstein, whose police powers were suspended in 2022 but is still employed by the city.

I’m linking to the Sun’s coverage, but it is kind of thin right now. “This article will be updated.” The NYPost is a little more detailed, but also “This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.”

LaMar Cook is a staffer for Maura Healey, the governor of Massachusetts.

LaMar Cook has been charged with various crimes.

“unlawful possession of a firearm”. As we all know, Bob, Massachusetts never met a gun control measure it didn’t like.

“unlawful possession of ammunition”. See above.

And “trafficking over 200 grams of cocaine”. Way over 200 grams. Try eight kilos of cocaine. Which he had delivered to the state office building he worked in.

His arrest is also linked to parcels seized at the Hotel UMass in Amherst, where Cook was previously employed, containing about 13 kilos of the drug.

As a great philosopher once said, “Cocaine is a hell of a drug.“

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