A former GOP staffer, who staged an intricate hoax by faking her own kidnapping, has been mandated to undergo psychiatric treatment.

Twenty-six-year-old Natalie Greene faces several charges after authorities discovered she had inflicted fake wounds on herself through ‘scar-ification’ and kept additional zip ties in her Maserati.

Greene, who once worked for GOP Representative Jeff Van Drew, was released on a $200,000 bond on November 19 and required to wear an ankle monitor. However, on November 26, the monitor was removed to allow her to participate in inpatient treatment, as reported by The New York Post.

Federal Judge Elizabeth Pascal recommended that Greene enter a residential treatment program prior to her trial. Her attorney agreed to this course of action.

The Daily Mail has sought comments from Greene’s lawyer and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey.

The former Rutgers Law School student said the attack took place after she received threats while working at the congressional office for New Jersey Republican Representative Jeff Van Drew.

A frantic 911 call came in on the night of July 23 reporting that three men had attacked Greene, one allegedly brandishing a firearm and threatening to shoot her while mentioning her boss’s name. 

But after the FBI questioned her, Greene’s elaborate story began to unravel, resulting in the young staffer being charged with making false statements after she was accused of faking the attack on herself, with the help of an accomplice.

The ex-GOP staffer charged after she faked an attack in which she had the words ‘Trump wh***’ written on her stomach has been ordered to receive psychiatric treatment 

Natalie Greene, 26, faces multiple charges after the entire abduction was found to be a hoax, including receipts for ‘scar-ification’ to falsify her wounds and zip ties discovered in her Maserati

She had been found in New Jersey woodland in tears with distinct-looking laceration marks all over her body, bound by her hands, feet and even around her neck with black zip ties. 

Greene told an FBI agent that two men grabbed her, pulled up her shirt and restrained her on the ground before tying her up. 

She claimed that one struck her on the head before cutting into her body and ‘scraping’ her, with the pain so intense she began to scream.

The staffer added that one of her ‘attackers’ claimed he had a gun and threatened to shoot her if she moved, though Greene said she never saw the weapon and only felt something push against her stomach. 

The same night the 911 call was made, police searching Greene’s Maserati found extra black zip ties identical to the ones allegedly used to bind her. 

Federal investigators later discovered that days earlier, Greene’s friend had searched the internet for ‘zip ties near me’ and was seen on surveillance buying them at a Dollar General Store around 6pm on July 21.

When federal agents seized Greene’s phone after the alleged attack, they uncovered a Reddit account following ‘bodymods’ and ‘scarification’ pages.

Police found that Greene travelled to a Pennsylvania tattoo and body-modification studio at around 2pm that afternoon and paid $500 in cash to have cuts and markings made across her face, neck, back and shoulders with a scalpel.

Greene – pictured with the modeling for her ‘scar-ification process’ – was ordered free November 19 on $200,000 bond and forced to wear an ankle monitor but on November 26, had it removed so she could undergo treatment 

Greene’s dramatic story began to unravel under questioning from the FBI, resulting in the young staffer being charged with making false statements to concoct an elaborate hoax

The markings, including the one calling her a slur and another saying ‘Van Drew racist’, were an exact match with her injuries from the supposed kidnapping.

Greene, who had spent years as a constituent advocate director for Van Drew, took photos of the exact scars she wanted the artist to execute, complete with patterns for scars and cuts all over her face, neck, upper chest and shoulder, police say. 

Greene then travelled to Ventnor, New Jersey, picked up her friend and co-conspirator and visited a Dunkin’ Donuts in Atlantic City before the pair eventually headed to the Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve, arriving around 9.30pm.

At 10.36pm, the co-conspirator, who has not been identified, called 911, reporting that she and Greene had been jumped by three men who threatened them at gunpoint and referenced Greene’s boss.

Greene repeated the claims to responding officers, saying one of the attackers held her down, cut her, restrained her and threatened to shoot her. 

It is not clear whether the co-conspirator is also facing charges. 

By July 24, police and the FBI had already begun pulling cellphone data. 

On July 25, Greene is accused of making materially false statements to federal investigators. She was formally indicted on November 14. 

Greene faces up to ten years in prison, $500,000 in fines and up to six years of supervised release for allegedly making up the bizarre attack hoax  

Police found Greene crying in a wooded area off the trail in Egg Harbor Township with her hands and feet tied together and her shirt forced over her head, all with black zip ties and claiming that one of the attackers had a gun. Police found extra ties in Greene’s car that night

US Attorney for New Jersey and Trump appointee Alina Habba charged Greene with one count of conspiracy to convey false statements and hoaxes and one count of making false statements to federal law enforcement.

If found guilty on both charges, Greene faces up to ten years in prison, $500,000 in fines and up to six years of supervised release. 

She made her first appearance in federal court on Wednesday and was released on $200,000 unsecured bond. 

When the Daily Mail reached out to Van Drew’s office, a spokesman said she is no longer working for the congressman.  

‘While Natalie is no longer associated with the congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her and hope she’s getting he care she needs,’ Paxton Antonucci said. 

Days after her indictment, her parents Timothy and Becky Greene appeared stony-faced and ashamed as they refused to answer whether they were standing by their accused daughter.

Timothy hung his head and walked barefoot outside his $700,000 oceanfront home Ocean City, New Jersey, in the early hours of Friday morning with his dog.

He ignored questions about whether he believed his daughter was being ‘unfairly prosecuted’ or if he had seen her in the days after her arrest.

If found guilty on both charges, Greene faces up to ten years in prison, $500,000 in fines and up to six years of supervised release

Becky Greene (pictured left) was stony-faced as she emerged from her New Jersey home days later, after her daughter Natalie was charged with faking her own abduction. Greene’s father Timothy (pictured right) also appeared to have the weight of the world on his shoulders 

Greene’s mother covered her face as she arrived home, racing inside and not acknowledging media on the street.

Greene herself was nowhere to be seen and there was no sign of her Maserati either. 

Neighbors on the family’s opulent home Daily Mail they have been left bewildered by the allegations against Greene, who was described as a ‘good girl’ from a ‘great family.’

One neighbor who said he knew the alleged hoaxer since she was a child said he believed she had ‘just made a mistake’ if the allegations prove true, and said she ‘didn’t deserve’ scrutiny over the elaborate scheme laid out by prosecutors in a bombshell indictment this week.

Another neighbor said Greene was well known in the small oceanfront cul-de-sac since her childhood, and said the community is bewildered by the 26-year-old’s alleged plot.