Lobbyist hit with extortion charge in NY after allegedly trying to shake down ex-client for $500K

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Federal authorities in New York have arrested and charged a lobbyist — one who had worked on behalf of an ex-nursing home operator pardoned recently by President Donald Trump — with attempting to force a former client and his son to pay him $500,000, according to documents . Joshua Nass, 34, of Charleston, South Carolina, was scheduled to appear Saturday before a magistrate judge on an attempted extortion charge unsealed Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York

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