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A former New Jersey GOP aide allegedly paid a fetish artist to mutilate her body, had an accomplice scrawl “Trump Whore” on her stomach, and then falsely claimed she was violently attacked in what federal prosecutors said was a staged political stunt, according to shocking new court documents.
Natalie Greene, 26, was arrested Wednesday and charged with masterminding the violent bogus ambush at Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve on the night of July 23, the US Attorney’s Office for the DIstrict of New Jersey announced.
Prosecutors said the accused fraudster claimed three gun-wielding men approached her and a friend on the trail around 10:36 p.m. before threatening to shoot her and striking her in the head.
The suspect said the fictitious attackers then hogtied her with black zip ties, held her down while slashing her face and body, and etched political slurs onto her stomach and back because of her job, the complaint said.
Greene, a Rutgers law student, worked for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey Globe reported.
Two days before the alleged phony assault, Greene drove to Pennsylvania and paid a body-modification artist she found on Instagram $500 to deliberately carve gruesome wounds into her face, neck, chest, back, and shoulders with a scalpel, the court documents showed.
The Ocean City resident allegedly provided the artist with a design she wanted gouged into her flesh.
On the day of the alleged staged attack, Greene’s accomplice frantically called police, claiming she had been singled out by name and violently assaulted, according to the complaint.
Officers found the accused con artist in a wooded area just off the trail, hands and feet bound together, her shirt pulled over her head, and the words “TRUMP WHORE” and “Van Drew is a racist” scribbled in black marker on her horrifically scarred body, as she screamed that one of her attackers had a gun.
Horrific photos in the complaint show Greene with deep, grisly cuts on her body and face.
Prosecutors said Greene was taken to a hospital, where she and her accomplice gave police conflicting accounts of what happened and provided faulty descriptions of the phantom assailants.
Black zip ties and duct tape were also found in Greene’s Maserati the night of the distrubing alleged scheme, and federal officials said her unidentified sidekick searched “zip ties near me” on their phone two days earlier and went to a Ventnor Dollar General to pick them up.
“While Natalie is no longer associated with the congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she’s getting the care she needs,” Van Drew’s office told the outlet.
She joined the congressman’s team part-time in 2022 and later served as his constituent advocate.
Greene was charged with conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal law enforcement.
She was arraigned Wednesday in federal court and released on a $200,000 unsecured bond.
Greene could spend up to a decade behind bars if convicted on both charges.
