Federal authorities in New York have arrested and charged a lobbyist — one who 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, appeared Saturday before a magistrate judge in Brooklyn on an attempted extortion charge unsealed the previous day, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said. Nass, who was being released on $5 million bond, could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
