A Manhattan grand jury has indicted the alleged shake-down stalker of Yankees GM Brian Cashman, prosecutors announced in court today.
Louise Meanwell, 36, who also uses the name Neathway, will now face charges for allegedly extorting $6,000 from the married, baseball big and for trying to shake him down for thousands more by allegedly threatening to go public with the affair.
Meanwell appeared in court in a nondescript light gray pants suit, and remained rear-cuffed through the short proceeding.
Meanwell was also indicted on a second count for her alleged harassment of a Wall Street ex beau Thomas Walsh.
Walsh, who lives in the East Village, had a protection order against Meanwell after she bombarded him with text messages in the wake of their split.
She was just days away from having the misdeameanor charges in that case wiped from her record when she was arrested in the Cashman case.
Walsh is one of 13 people who have received protection orders against Meanwell in recent years.
She must return to court April 11, when she will have to chance to plead not guilty to the indictments. Until then, she remains at Rikers in lieu of $200,000 bail.
Earlier this week, Meanwell griped to The Post in a phone call from Rikers Island.
“They throw liquids on me and spit on me. They call me names. They call me a stalker. “I’m in hell, it’s just awful.”
Meanwell’s jailhouse rant came after a judge had issued a gag order on prosecutors and lawyers in the case, and reportedly told Meanwell to stick a cork in it, too.
The compulsive motor-mouth — whom Manhattan prosecutors claim shook Cashman down for $6,000 and tried to squeeze another $15,000 from the baseball bigwig before she was busted — won’t be silenced.
“We all have this massive gag order now and I’m not supposed to talk about anything,” noted Meanwell, who spent last two days last week testifying before a grand jury.
“I was an emotional wreck,” Meanwell said of appearance in front of the panel. But, she said, testimony is going “very well.”
“I plan on telling the grand jury everything I can attest to. What Brian’s doing to me is awful. I just don’t get it.”
“If I’ve been harassing him, he’s been harassing me as well – it’s a two-way street,” Meanwell said of Cashman.
“He needs me out of the way. He’s just trying to bulldoze anyone out of the way that interferes with his public appearance. “
Meanwell was not required to speak to the grand jury but chose to.