{"id":45791,"date":"2025-11-20T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:03:11","slug":"ex-gop-aide-paid-fetish-artist-to-mutilate-her-claimed-it-was-an-anti-trump-attack-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45791\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-GOP aide paid fetish artist to mutilate her, claimed it was an anti-Trump attack: docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: Graphic Images<\/p>\n<p>A former New Jersey GOP aide allegedly paid a fetish artist to mutilate her body, had an accomplice scrawl \u201cTrump Whore\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nj\/pr\/employee-federal-official-charged-conspiracy-falsely-report-violent-attack-and-giving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the DIstrict of New Jersey announced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Natalie Greene was arrested and charged with staging the violent attack. Facebook \/ Natalie Greene<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Greene, 26,  paid a body-modification artist  $500 to deliberately carve gruesome wounds into her face, neck, back, and shoulders with a scalpel. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Greene, a Rutgers law student, worked for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/congress\/van-drew-staffer-staged-fake-attack-writing-trump-whore-across-her-stomach-and-alleging-men-held-her-down-and-cut-her-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Jersey Globe reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police found the words \u201cTRUMP WHORE\u201d and \u201cVan Drew is a racist\u201d scribbled in black marker on her horrifically scarred body. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Greene, a Rutgers law student, worked for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew at the time. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/14\/us-news\/creep-left-spy-cams-disguised-as-pens-in-jersey-shore-restrooms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean City resident<\/a> allegedly provided the artist with a design she wanted gouged into her flesh.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean City resident allegedly provided the artist with a design she wanted gouged into her flesh. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Greene drove to Pennsylvania for the body-modification artist to carve the wounds using a scalpel, according to court documents. Facebook \/ Natalie Greene<\/p>\n<p>On the day of the alleged staged attack, Greene\u2019s accomplice frantically called police, claiming she had been singled out by name and violently assaulted, according to the complaint. <\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cTRUMP WHORE\u201d and \u201cVan Drew is a racist\u201d scribbled in black marker on her horrifically scarred body, as she screamed that one of her attackers had a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Horrific photos in the complaint show Greene with deep, grisly cuts on her body and face. <\/p>\n<p>She claimed that she was ziptied by the phantom assailants during the alleged bogus assault. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Black zip ties and duct tape were also found in Greene\u2019s Maserati the night of the distrubing alleged scheme, and federal officials said her unidentified sidekick searched \u201czip ties near me\u201d on their phone two days earlier and went to a Ventnor Dollar General to pick them up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Natalie is no longer associated with the congressman\u2019s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she\u2019s getting the care she needs,\u201d Van Drew\u2019s office told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p>Police also found her with her shirt pulled over her head. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>Greene pictured being restrained with her hands bound. U.S. Attorney\u0092s Office<\/p>\n<p>She joined the congressman\u2019s team part-time in 2022 and later served as his constituent advocate.<\/p>\n<p>Greene was charged with conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>She was arraigned Wednesday in federal court and released on a $200,000 unsecured bond.<\/p>\n<p>Greene could spend up to a decade behind bars if convicted on both charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: Graphic Images A former New Jersey GOP aide allegedly paid a fetish artist to mutilate her body,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,5357,303,26097,1066,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-45791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-attacks","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-hoaxes","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}