CAMDEN, New Jersey – The Maserati-driving ex New Jersey GOP aide accused of paying a fetish artist to carve into her pores and skin in a staged anti-Trump assault nonetheless bears the horrific scars — at the same time as she’s attempting to make a “contemporary begin” in Florida after present process psychological well being remedy.
Glamorous former regulation pupil Natalie Greene, 26, arrived at Camden Federal Court docket Wednesday in her Italian sports activities automotive, carrying a darkish inexperienced mini costume and clutching a Louis Vuitton bag whereas sporting an ankle monitor on her left leg – together with the ghastly healed gashes nonetheless seen on her neck and jawline.
The Ocean Metropolis resident, arrested in November, allegedly paid a physique modification artist $500 to slash dozens of ugly wounds into her face, neck, chest, again, and shoulders with a scalpel on July 21.
Two days later, prosecutors stated she staged a bogus assault at Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve, claiming three assailants held her at gunpoint, mutilated her pores and skin, and wrote “Trump Whore” on her abdomen.
At a court docket listening to Wednesday, Camden federal Justice of the Peace Choose Elizabeth Pascal accredited Greene’s request to relocate to Fort Lauderdale, the place she’s going to dwell with – and be supervised by – a childhood buddy who was beforehand busted for cocaine and driving an unlicensed automobile within the streets.
Greene’s lawyer, Louis Barbone, argued that the accused fraudster was determined to rebuild her life, saying she had struggled to seek out work because of the case, had obtained demise threats and been stalked on-line.
“The prospect of Natalie Greene getting a job on this space is slim to none,” Barbone advised the choose, including that shifting to the Sunshine State “provides her a contemporary begin and talent to behave regular.”
He added that regardless of dwelling together with her ex-boyfriend’s mom in what he described as a tension-filled “hell gap,” the previous Rutgers Legislation pupil has efficiently accomplished her court-mandated psychological well being remedy.
Barbone stated Greene, who has a job lined up in Florida, will proceed psychological well being remedy, keep on digital monitoring, and comply with a curfew when she lives with Kristin Haughton-James, a twice arrested mother of two who appeared in court docket by way of video to substantiate she will accommodate her former campmate.
Federal prosecutors argued that the request for Haughton-James to oversee the previous congressional aide to Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) was taking her from “the frying pan into the hearth.”
“I don’t assume it’s a greater plan,” prosecutor Patrick Askin stated, pointing to the Florida girl’s 2025 arrest for driving an ATV on the street as a “pink flag for judgement” and a “lack of respect for the regulation.”
Haughton-James was additionally busted in 2013 at age 19 for possession of cocaine, for which she went by way of a remedy program. She at the moment makes use of medical marijuana day by day to deal with her nervousness and is on probation for her present arrest.
However Pascal discovered Haughton-James, a waitress, “extremely credible and forthright.”
The childhood buddy agreed to report any violations Inexperienced – whom she met 20 years in the past and later reconnected with on Fb following her high-profile arrest – assured the court docket that she “fully understands” her new tasks as a authorized custodian.
Greene and Barbone declined to remark upon leaving court docket, although the latter stated he hopes to barter a plea cope with federal prosecutors after reviewing the proof.
The suspected con artist labored for Van Drew’s workplace whereas additionally attending Rutgers Legislation College on the time of the alleged hoax assault.
Greene claimed three gun-wielding males approached her on the character path, hog-tied her with black zip ties, and held her down whereas slashing her face and physique on July 23.
“TRUMP WHORE” and “Van Drew is a racist” have been additionally scrawled on her physique with black marker.
Prosecutors stated Greene was taken to a hospital, the place she and her confederate gave police conflicting accounts of what occurred and supplied defective descriptions of the phantom assailants.
Police additionally discovered zip-ties stashed in her Maserati SUV.
Greene is charged with conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal regulation enforcement.
She faces as much as ten years behind bars and a $250,000 high-quality if convicted on each counts.
