Earlier this month, a Maryland state senator was indicted for allegedly blackmailing a former consultant with secretly recorded video of her in bed with a married man. Dalya Attar — a Democrat and the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the Maryland senate — is charged with eight counts, including extortion and conspiracy. Her brother, Joseph Attar, and Baltimore Police Department officer Kalman Finkelstein are also charged in the alleged scheme.

According to the federal indictment that was unsealed Thursday and obtained by The Cut, Attar had worked with the unnamed political consultant in 2018 while she was first running for the Maryland House of Delegates, but their relationship soured sometime before the election. Attar went on to win the election, but in 2020, as she was prepari

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