Maryland State Senator Dalya Attar (D) was indicted on charges stemming from an alleged scheme to blackmail individuals she claimed would “compromise” her campaign.
Federal authorities alleged that Attar — the first Orthodox Jewish woman to serve in the Maryland State Senate — was part of a plot that involved “planting tracking and recording devices” to obtain footage of two unnamed individuals in bed. Once that footage was acquired, the report continued, it would be used to extort the individuals.
State Sen. Dalya Attar allegedly threatened to expose the affair to prevent the unnamed consultant from publicly speaking out against her 2022 reelection bid for the Maryland House of Delegates, investigators allege in an eight-count indictment unsealed Thursday.
The alleged victim had worked on Attar’s 2018 House of Delegates campaign, but the two later fell out for unclear reasons, according to the indictment.
In total, Attar was indicted on eight charges.
Attar’s brother Joseph, Baltimore cop Kalman Finklestein, and others involved in the plot allegedly placed a tracker on the consultant’s car and installed hidden cameras in a smoke detector in an apartment the victim used to rendezvous with her married paramour.
“Damn, I wish I had [the man’s] stamina,” Finklestein stated in a WhatsApp voice message after installing the cameras, according to the indictment.
Attar has been in the Maryland State Senate since occupying a vacant seat in January 2025. She’s currently facing off against State Delegate Malcolm P. Ruff to hold the seat for a full term.
In a statement obtained by Fox affiliate WBBF, State Senate President Bill Ferguson’s (D) office said they had just learned about the arrest with everyone else.
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