Former GOP aide who staged a fake anti-Trump attack on herself and claimed attack was politically motivated is ordered to get mental help

The New Jersey GOP aide accused of staging a sick, politically motivated attack on herself has been ordered to undergo residential treatment at an inpatient mental health facility, court documents show.  Natalie Greene, a former law school student, was charged last month, Nov. 2025, for allegedly staging a fake assault on herself in which her assailants supposedly held her at gunpoint, carved up her skin and wrote Trump Whore on her stomach.  In actuality, Greene, 26, who worked as the aide for New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew, hired a fetish artist to cut the skin on her face, neck, chest, shoulder and stomach, including having him scrawl Van Drew is a racist on her body as part of the bogus ambush at Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve on July 23, prosecutors alleged.  She was released on $200,000 bond with GPS tracking via an ankle bracelet on Nov. 19. But Camden federal Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Pascal ordered Greene on Nov. 26 to report to pretrial services to have her ankle bracelet removed while she receives inpatient treatment. Pascal wrote in her order that pretrial services recommended that defendant submit to residential treatment and Greenes lawyer consented to it.  Prosecutors said Greene, an Ocean City resident and former Rutgers Law School student, went to Pennsylvania two days prior to the incident and paid a body modification artist $500 to cut the gruesome wounds into her skin with a scalpel.   Then on July 23, Greene had a friend make a 911 call, reporting they were attacked by three men, targeting Greene because of her job with Van Drew, the feds alleged. When law enforcement found Greene she was laying on the ground in a wooded area off the trail with her hands and feet bound with zip-ties, her shirt pulled over her head and wounds all over her body, prosecutors said.  Greene claimed at least one of her assailants had a gun and threatened to shoot her.  One of the clues that helped cops see through Greenes alleged ruse was the fact that zip-ties were found in her Maserati SUV. She and her accomplice allegedly gave conflicting accounts of the events, prosecutors said.  Greene is charged with conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and making false statements to federal law enforcement.  She faces up to ten years behind bars and a $250,000 fine if convicted on both counts.