A well-connected Trumpworld lawyer/lobbyist was charged with extortion after allegedly hiring an individual to threaten a former client into settling $500,000 in debt.
Joshua Nass, 34, was arrested on Friday and arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn on Saturday after he was accused of recruiting an individual to “do anything and everything” to force a former client and the client’s son—identified by the Department of Justice only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2—into paying $500,000 that they owed him for services he rendered.
“Rather than honestly representing his client, Joshua Nass allegedly chose to shake him down by hiring an enforcer to extort payment,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Barnacle said in a statement.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
