Dalya Attar became the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the Maryland Senate this January

US federal officials have charged a Maryland Democratic state senator with extortion for allegedly masterminding a blackmail scheme involving secretly filmed explicit videos, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday.

Dalya Attar, who was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022, became the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the Maryland State Senate earlier this year.

Court documents allege that Attar devised a plan to stop a former employee from speaking out against her 2022 re-election bid…

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