A New Jersey woman has been charged with conspiracy and making false statements after she faked being the victim of a brutal attack, by zip-tying herself, paying an artist to scar her face and body with cuts and writing “Trump whore” on her torso in a fabricated plot, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey said Wednesday.

Natalie Greene, 26, a former staff member for U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), allegedly told a concocted story to FBI agents, saying she was attacked on July 23 around 10 p.m. by three men who called her names while she was walking with a friend on a nature trail near Atlantic City. Two of the men restrained her on the ground, she said, binding her ankles together with zip ties as they struck her in the head and cut her with a sharp object all over her body.

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