India, Oct. 31 -- Dalya Attar, the Maryland State Senator, has been indicted by federal prosecutors on eight counts, including extortion, conspiracy and wire-tapping in a scheme linked to her 2022 re-election campaign.

The unsealed indictment alleges that Attar, along with her brother Joseph Attar and Baltimore police officer Kalman Finkelstein, used secretly obtained intimate footage to silence a former political consultant.

Dalya Attar is a Democrat representing Baltimore City's 41st District. She had a rapid political rise where she served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2019 to early 2025, then was appointed to the Maryland Senate in January 2025, becoming the first Orthodox Jewish woman to hold a Senate seat in the state. ...