Former aide to House rep accused of faking political attack

Federal prosecutors provided a photo showing law enforcement officers locating Greene lying in a wooded area just off a New Jersey trail with her hands and feet bound together with black zip ties. At the right is Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J. (U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Federal prosecutors said Greene told the responding officers that one or more of the alleged attackers said they had a gun and threatened to shoot her, while they also "had held her down and restrained her movement, cutting her and writing on her body." 

After receiving medical treatment for the wounds, Greene again described her alleged attack to law enforcement officers and an FBI agent, but the "investigation revealed that Greene had not, in fact, been attacked by three men at gunpoint on July 23," according to the Attorney’s Office. 

"Instead, Greene had paid a body modification/scarification artist to deliberately cut the lacerations on her face, neck, upper chest, and shoulder, based on a pattern that she had provided beforehand. Law enforcement officers recovered black zip ties in Greene’s car on the night of the alleged attack, similar to the zip ties that had been used to bind Greene’s arms and feet," it said. "Also, the investigation revealed that, two days prior to the alleged attack, the cellphone of Greene’s co-conspirator had been used to search ‘zip ties near me.’"

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Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., arrives at a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 12, 2023, in Washington, D.C.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"Greene was released on a $200,000 unsecured bond and additional conditions, as set by the Court," the office said following her court appearance Wednesday. 

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Greene joined Van Drew's team in a part-time role in 2022 and later was his constituent advocate, according to the New York Post. 

Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.

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