Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault
Prosecutors say Greene schemed with an unnamed co-conspirator to make it seem as if three men assaulted and bound her with zip-ties in an attack supposedly based on her political beliefs.
According to the
criminal complaint, the co-conspirator called 911 the night of July 23 and said that “three guys” had just attacked them at a nature preserve in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
“They were attacking her,” they told the 911 operator. “They were like talking about politics and stuff. They were like calling her names.”
“They were like calling her like racist, calling her a whore,” the co-conspirator added.
Local police found Greene lying on the ground, crying and yelling with her hands and feet tied together and her shirt pulled over her head. She had dozens of cuts on her body, including on her face and chest. Written across her body in black marker were two messages: “Trump Whore” on her stomach, and Van Drew “is Racist” on her back.
Greene told police that her alleged attackers addressed her by name, one saying he would kill her if she made any noise and one saying he had a gun. One of the men also cut into her body with a sharp object, she told them, and one or more of the men wrote on her.
But investigators later learned that Greene visited a “scarification artist” and paid $500 in cash for lacerations in a specific pattern that she picked out, the complaint says. They also discovered the co-conspirator had searched Google for “zip ties near me” days before the alleged attack, and black zip ties and duct tape were found in Greene’s car on the night of the incident.
In interviews with law enforcement, including the FBI, Greene’s story did not seem to match up with her alleged co-conspirator’s.
The court docket did not immediately show a defense attorney listed for Greene.
She worked as a constituent advocate director for Van Drew, who has represented New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District since 2019, according to her LinkedIn. She is also a student at Rutgers Law School.
