this maid trafficking was not a new thing to this consular gal. on 3 occasions in the past Indian embassy reps( folks whose salary you pay to represent your country with pride) have been prosecuted for similar charged crimes. There is more than 1/2 dozen other country's reps that US has also prosecuted for the same crime in the past years.
if there was indeed any blackmail then the maids who be prosecuted. so far - none to my knowledge have. If the US was a " corrupt" country, then the maids would have been prosecuted and " elites" would have got a break