\nA 26-year-old Ocean City woman who claimed she was brutally assaulted because she worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Ocean City) instead orchestrated the entire incident \u2014 paying a scarification artist to wound her and staging the scene with zip ties and \u201cTrump Whore\u201d written on her stomach and \u201cVan Drew is a racist\u201d on her back, federal prosecutors alleged today.<\/p>\n
Natalie Greene, a Rutgers law student, allegedly concocted the hoax in July, with an accomplice making a late-night 911 call to report that she had been ambushed by three men on a nature trail in Egg Harbor Township.\u00a0 Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and the political slurs scrawled across her torso.\u00a0 She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say nearly every detail was fabricated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Oh look, she did the thing!<\/p>\n
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\u2014 Dr Rachel Menzies (@RachelEMenzies) April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
If there was any risk that she was actually attacked, I\u2019d avoid posting the photos but I think that it\u2019s fair game to see the lengths she was willing to go to now that there\u2019s strong evidence that she was just LARPing:<\/p>\n
\n \n\nNatalie Greene, a Rutgers law student who had worked for Republican New Jersey congressman Jeff van Drew, has been federally charged in New Jersey for allegedly orchestrating an elaborate hoax where she was cut up, hog-tied and had “Trump whore” written on her. <\/p>\n
Greene allegedly\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/em67weo43B<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
Investigators should have realized something was off once they noticed that the attacker\u2019s wounds looked like they were made by a cat with a strong fascination with symmetrical lines. I mean really, an extended knife attack with no<\/em> stab wounds or deep gashes? The only way something like this would happen without being staged is if you pissed off a pit master who just got finished prepping his pulled pork.<\/p>\n
\n \n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nWait, I probably shouldn\u2019t be giving people any bear claw fraud ideas<\/a>. <\/p>\n
After the investigation started, they found extra matching zip ties in the \u201cvictim\u2019s\u201d car, along with video footage of her going to buy zip ties from a dollar store. It also didn\u2019t help that her stories didn\u2019t match up with her co-conspirator. You\u2019d think a law student and her accomplice would be better about memorizing the details of a fact pattern before the big cold call.<\/p>\n
Greene was charged with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement. And while I\u2019m no doctor, I hope that she gets whatever mental health issues addressed that made her think doing this was a good idea \u2014 there have to be better ways of explaining away a regrettable $500 body modification than going full Jussie Smollett.<\/p>\n
Ex-Van Drew Staffer Staged Fake Attack, Writing \u2018Trump Whore\u2019 Across Her Stomach And Alleging Men Held Her Down And Cut Her Body<\/a> [New Jersey Globe]<\/p>\n
\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
The post DOJ Charges Law Student In \u2018Trump Whore\u2019 Kidnapping Hoax<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n
One of the keys to surviving law school is getting really good at time management skills. If you can squeeze more than eating, sleeping, and studying into your schedule, you\u2019re just asking for a reality check. In an extreme example of a law student having too much damned time on her hands, her extracurricular activities have her facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n
Remember: the first rule of false flagging is that if you think you\u2019re smart enough to get away with it, you probably haven\u2019t been studying Crim Law hard enough.<\/p>\n
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