In a bizarrely twisted and elaborate hoax, a former staffer for a New Jersey congressman is facing charges for allegedly staging a brutal attack against herself, made to look like a hate crime, including paying someone to carve wounds on her body and writing vile slurs against President Donald Trump and Congressman Jeff Van Drew.

According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News, 26-year-old Rutgers law student Natalie Greene, who previously worked for the Republican Rep. Van Drew, paid a body scarring expert to create wounds on her upper body to look as if she had been violently assaulted.

Investigators allege a co-conspirator called police on July 23, 2025, and reported that she and Greene were attacked at gunpoint by three men in a state park in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

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