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flag Maryland Senator Dalya Attar indicted on federal charges over alleged campaign extortion and threats using hidden recordings.

flag Maryland state Senator Dalya Attar, a Democrat from Baltimore, has been indicted on eight federal charges, including extortion and conspiracy, related to her 2018 and 2022 campaigns. flag Prosecutors allege she conspired with her brother, Joseph Attar, and Baltimore police officer Kalman Finkelstein to install hidden recording devices and threaten to release private footage of a former consultant and a man involved in an alleged affair. flag The indictment claims the group sought to silence criticism by using the recordings as leverage. flag Attar, who is the first Orthodox Jewish woman in the Maryland Senate, denies the allegations, calling them baseless. flag The case, unsealed on October 23, 2025, is ongoing, and she remains in office pending further legal proceedings.

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