Maryland State Sen. Dalya Attar and two other individuals were federally indicted Oct. 30, 2025, on extortion and conspiracy charges. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
In December 2021, Joseph Attar allegedly met with one of the victims at a Baltimore shopping center and warned, "I have hours of footage of you in bed with [Victim 1] ... Go to [Victim 1] and say leave Dalya alone ... or I’ll share this video with everyone you know — every Rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters."
Prosecutors say the threats continued into 2022 as the defendants allegedly worked to ensure both victims remained silent before Attar’s re-election campaign. The indictment also says the three coordinated through encrypted WhatsApp messages, which they regularly deleted to avoid detection.
Dalya Attar (far right) is accused of secretly filming two critics in bed together to try to silence them. (Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The charges carry potential penalties of several decades in prison. Attar’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told FOX 45 that Finkelstein has been on administrative duty since 2022 and no longer holds police powers.
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Attar, a Democrat and former Baltimore prosecutor, was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2018 and appointed to the state Senate in January 2025.
She had been considered a rising figure in Maryland’s Orthodox Jewish community.
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