https://wtop.com/maryland/2025/10/maryland-state-senator-indicted-in-federal-court-on-extortion-and-conspiracy-charges/
A Maryland state senator has been indicted on federal charges including extortion related to her 2022 campaign for a state House seat for allegedly conspiring to threaten the release of an explicit video of a former consultant’s affair.
State Sen. Dalya Attar, a Baltimore Democrat, was charged in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday that involves her brother, Joseph Attar, and Kalman Finkelstein, a Baltimore police officer who worked on her campaign.
Dalya Attar is the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the Maryland Senate.
She has been charged in the eight-count indictment with multiple counts of conspiracy, extortion via interstate communications, aiding and abetting, interception and disclosure of a wire.