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The case of a California woman who said she was kidnapped for ransom only to have police call it a hoax took another bizarre twist Monday when federal prosecutors announced they charged a disbarred Harvard-trained lawyer with her abduction.Matthew Muller, of Orangevale, California, was charged last month after he was arrested in South Lake Tahoe in a home-invasion robbery that occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area and had similarities to the kidnapping, the FBI said. The allegations were in an affidavit that was unsealed Monday.The kidnapping case began when the woman's boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, reported kidnappers broke into the couple's Vallejo home March 23, abducted her and demanded an $8,500 ransom.Quinn's lawyers have said he awoke to a bright light in his face, and two kidnappers bound and drugged him.The 29-year-old woman turned up safe two days later in her hometown of Huntington Beach, where she says she was dropped off. She showed up just hours before the ransom was due.
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