This one is just so weird, but when you boil it down it’s a case of extortion. Over a two year period, a married couple in their 20s are accused by the FBI of extorting $60,000 from a 26-year-old developmentally disabled man. To do so, the FBI says John and Nicole Naudy used an ambulance, created a fictional organization known as the ambulance mafia, injected the victim with drugs, convinced him to fake injuries that resulted in a medical helicopter flight and forced the victim to cross dress.
According to Hema Easley at the Times Herald-Record, this manipulation and intimidation of the victim occurred over a two-year-period in and around Monroe in Orange County, New York. The complaint filed by the FBI says that the Naudys convinced the victim a mafia group owned an ambulance company out of Monticello and that they were after the man for failing to pay his bill for transport.
Here’s an excerpt from the article, but you need to read the whole story and the criminal complaint to get the full measure of the depravity involved in this case.
According to the complaint, in late 2012, Nicole Naudy told the victim he would have to participate in a dance contest to impress “Taylor,” a girlfriend who only came when he was drunk and with whom he communicated on Facebook. The contest required that he dress as a woman, lie down in the middle of a road in Monticello and play dead. He did so, and a bystander called for an ambulance. An ambulance arrived. It was driven by John Naudy.
Following the incident, Nicole Naudy told the victim that when he was in the ambulance, he gave a false name and date of birth to the paramedic, which was against the law. To keep the ambulance company from filing a complaint, he had to pay them money. She said he owed $390,000.
In mid-July, Nicole Naudy told the victim the mafia needed him to create a distraction while it conducted a drug deal. The victim allowed Nicole Naudy to scratch him, withdraw blood from his body and splatter him with it. He was then airlifted in an unconscious state to Westchester Medical Center.
