State Sen. Dalya Attar is accused of conspiring with her brother and a police officer to threaten to release a video of a former consultant sleeping with a married man

A Maryland state senator has been indicted on federal charges including extortion related to her 2022 campaign for a state House seat for allegedly conspiring to threaten the release of an explicit video of a former consultant's affair. State Sen. Dalya Attar, a Baltimore Democrat, was charged in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday that involves her brother, Joseph Attar, and Kalman Finkelstein, a Baltimore police officer who worked on her campaign. The group conspired to silence a former consultant by threatening to make public a video of her in bed with a married man, according to the indictment.