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"extort" Definitions
  1. extort something (from somebody) to make somebody give you something by threatening them

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In New York, Avenatti was charged on four counts: conspiracy to transmit interstate communications with intent to extort, conspiracy to commit extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, and extortion.
They rob, extort, even kill, to secure their bottom line.
The woman was later convicted of trying to extort him.
They extort money from those doing business in the neighborhoods.
Mally also claimed his accuser was trying to extort him.
The Templars would happily tax or extort anything that moved.
Miller claims Ruiz tried to extort him for $2.5 million.
The gangs began to threaten and try to extort her.
The attacker attempted to extort me with the following message.
Armed gangs extort and rustle cattle from the surviving ranchers.
He would then use that to extort them, prosecutors said.
His attorney accused Schneiderman of trying to extort campaign contributions.
Baez also said Bradley was trying to "extort" money from Hernandez.
Gangs extort vast sums from businesses, equivalent to 3% of GDP.
It included excerpts in which the prosecutors tried to extort money.
Most cops come in only to extort bribes from the brewers.
He's accused Schneiderman of trying to extort donations out of him.
The group has attempted to extort several medical organizations this year.
Rather than help a struggling ally, he sought to extort it.
It follows that if blackmailers can extort money from these individuals under the threat of disclosure, espionage agents can use the same type of pressure to extort confidential information or other material they might be seeking.
Many officers spend their days mounting roadblocks to extort cash from drivers.
True. That foreign partner can expose their wrongdoing and extort them. True.
Cybercriminals try to extort cash from victims in all sorts of ways.
On June 4, 2008, Cali pleaded guilty to conspiring to extort money.
Romance scams use fraudulent romantic relationships to extort money or criminal collaboration.
"We felt that Jacobs was trying to extort the company," she said.
She says the person was attempting to extort her with the racy pics.
As you know, he's been accused of trying to extort the shoe co.
Unlike ransomware, it does not extort money, and the malware doesn't steal files.
"Their basic idea is that we'll extort her," said the former leadership aide.
Many are bands of insurgents who extort money from civilians and conscript them.
It wasn't a situation where we were trying to extort money from someone.
Some of them had threatened him and tried to extort him, he said.
Gangs facilitate drug trafficking, extort local residents, and force teenage boys to join.
Instead, police typically use the anti-gay laws to harass or extort citizens.
He filed a police report claiming she was trying to extort him with lies.
It levies "taxes" on locals and erects roadblocks to extort money from passing traffic.
Dr. Luke countersued for defamation, saying Kesha and Sebert had attempted to extort him.
Word to the wise: Do not try to extort Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian.
That's where LaPierre accused then-NRA President Oliver North of trying to extort him.
It is unfortunate that someone that BJ considered family is trying to extort him.
That it's a good idea to extort personal political favors from other vulnerable allies?
She added that Jacob's claims were an effort to extort money from the company.
He accused the president of spreading lies and of attempting to extort another country.
The word "extort" dates to Middle English, from the Latin word meaning to twist.
They extort bus drivers and small business owners, killing those unable or unwilling to pay.
The vicious smear campaign to extort Luke and damage him and his family is inexcusable.
Then they told their LPs that women and The Information were trying to extort them.
When Scarfe tries to extort him for more money, Cottonmouth shoots him in broad daylight.
To maintain control, gang members extort money at gunpoint, rape women and girls and murder.
In short, Emflaza is nothing but a trap to extort insurers, consumers, and even hospitals.
They see him as a target, and extort him for money from his commissary fund.
Police had accused Rojas of belonging to a criminal organization that tried to extort MMG.
LAWYER MICHAEL AVENATTI CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO EXTORT MORE THAN $20 MLN FROM NIKE -U.
But rather than looking for money, this ransomware is meant to extort a political statement.
Many hackers do have noble intentions, but they usually don't extort money from innocent victims.
Likewise, patent trolls should not be able to extort companies in patent-owner favorable jurisdictions.
Most victims are women, often targeted by former partners seeking to extort or humiliate them.
Earlier this month Avenatti was convicted of attempting to extort over $25 million from Nike.
One says that officials try to extort money from his firm "about once a day".
In a 2,000-word post on Medium, Bezos accuses AMI of trying to extort him.
Schiff's job was to uncover Trump's apparent attempts to extort politically motivated investigations from Ukraine.
They often extort residents in exchange for keeping drug gangs from taking over the areas.
Clearly, this is not the normal reaction the hacker receives when trying to extort someone.
Dunham apologized after Miller's lawyers admitted they were not honest about Perrineau trying to extort Miller.
An actor has been charged with trying to extort Kevin Hart with an alleged sex tape.
They would extort people at the time, she said, and can't imagine what it's like today.
The exchange continues as follows: Schiff: That foreign partner can expose their wrongdoing and extort them.
Its fighters still murder village elders, extort money and wage a low-level war of attrition.
There were reports Nicki would testify the alleged victim's mom tried to extort her for millions.
Mwangi was charged with trying to extort money from Erupe, Jepkorir, Joy Sakari and Koki Manunga.
It turned out to be little more than an attempt to extort funds from the wealthy.
North Korean hackers also deployed the WannaCry ransomware virus to extort money from comprised computer owners.
In the potentially damaging cyberattack, hackers remotely lock files in an effort to extort ransom payments.
Miller's people also shot down the request and claimed the woman was trying to extort him.
Sabbag said she had nothing to do with a reported attempt to extort money from Hart.
Their motivation is simply: they want money, and they're not afraid to extort people for it.
The woman, Karen Sypher, was later convicted of trying to extort Pitino for millions of dollars.
In Libya, the smugglers herd the Africans together, beat them, sometimes rape them and extort money.
He said locals seeking to extort money often target construction workers, who are seen as outsiders.
Recently Instagram has faced a wave of hackers breaking into accounts to then extort their owners.
American intelligence officials reportedly cautioned that Vladimir Putin might have "leverages of pressure" to extort Trump.
Trump deployed American foreign policy to extort a vulnerable nation to help his re-election campaign.
Officers have also used the threat of arrests for minor "broken windows" offenses to extort sex.
And no doubt Pyongyang would use the occasion to extort more assistance from the global community.
The suspects had admitted to posing as police and court officials to extort money, Heisela said.
Once there, they were threatened by people attempting to extort the family, with its American ties.
Bezos refused, instead publishing what he said were emails from AMI executives attempting to extort him.
He is also charged with trying to extort more than $20 million from athletic shoe giant Nike.
Officials believe that Harris has used Kik and Facebook to extort about 500 teenage girls since 2012.
A group of hackers use a stolen cyber-weapon to try to extort money from people worldwide.
Another UN report alleges that officers in Congo's army illegally own mines or extort gold from miners.
He embezzled money from Mt. Gox, he committed a crime, and he's trying to extort the creditors.
And the emergence of unscrupulous patent trolls who use the threat of lawsuits to extort nuisance settlements.
Trolls and criminals exploit anonymity to dox, swat, extort, exploit rape, and, on some occasions, broadcast murder.
In Colombia mining bosses complain that prior consultation has become a means to extort money from companies.
The hacker also claims he attempted to extort from $93,000 from the bank—in bitcoin, of course.
As the Islamic State loses land, the population it can extort and levy taxes against also shrinks.
As for Sheen ... he's said they were intimate and she's only out to extort him for money.
He also claimed Pebe attempted to extort him if he didn't let Kesha out of the deal.
" The lawyers go on, claiming Kesha's "outright lies" were designed "to extort a contract renegotiation and money.
The producer unsuccessfully counter-sued for defamation, claiming Kesha and her mother were trying to extort him.
Kent and Taylor weren't trying to undermine Trump by raising concerns about his scheme to extort Ukraine.
Street thugs target and kill children to pressure and extort their parents, according to agencies and reports.
The pizza chain founder claimed that Papa John's marketing agency tried to "extort" him over the remarks.
That threat of arrest allows North Korean officials to extort money and other bribes, the report says.
Argento also accuses Bennett of using her to extort money from her boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain.
He is also accused of enabling a plot to extort $100,000 from the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang.
It quickly became clear, officials said, that the person was trying to extort money from the company.
Newmont Goldcorp has long accused local leaders and politicians of exploiting social causes to extort the company.
Newmont Goldcorp has long accused local leaders and politicians of exploiting social causes to extort the company.
What's even worse is when this invasion of privacy is used as a way to extort money.
As we reported, Kevin has contacted cops claiming someone has tried to extort him with the video.
In their lawsuit, the Stahls claim Slomkowski attempt to extort nearly $1 million from them during filming.
Hart's rep confirmed in a previous statement to PEOPLE that someone was allegedly trying to extort the comedian.
Birkitt's boyfriend Robert Halderman had tried use his knowledge of the affair to extort $2 million from Letterman.
Now, his latest run in with law enforcement will be over allegedly conspiring to extort millions from Nike.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, alleged the Enquirer attempted to blackmail and extort him.
But he was also known to extort drug dealers; in the 1980s, he trafficked weapons to the IRA.
No evidence has been presented to support the allegations that it tried to extort cash for positive coverage.
If a civilian did that, it would be called extortion, but a prosecutor is allowed to extort essentially.
According to Cosby's lawyers, Huth sued the comedian only after unsuccessfully trying to extort him for hush money.
Robert Herjavec has filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend for allegedly trying to extort and embarrass him.
Armed men sit in the shade at makeshift checkpoints and take turns to extort money from passers-by.
She's being accused of allowing longtime-friend Choi Soon-sil to manipulate power, and extort millions from companies.
They may simply want to extort me, similar to what has happened to several other prominent Bitcoin folks.
One tactic commonly used by NFL owners to extort local governments is threatening to move to another city.
According to authorities, the gang was planning to hold Ferrari's dead body as ransom to extort his family.
" What changed in December, Skipper says, was that "someone from whom I bought cocaine attempted to extort me.
Pyongyang, thus, will be emboldened to extort and censor the richer, freer and very much risk-averse South.
The law prohibits use of the telecoms network to "extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, inappropriately influence or intimidate".
Eliot Spitzer of choking her at the Plaza Hotel was arrested on suspicion of trying to extort him.
Padilla said in court testimony that the letter was an attempt by Jacobs to extort money from Uber.
In the New York case, Mr. Avenatti was charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.
Michael Avenatti's trial on accusations he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike begins in New York.
" And Madison wisely warned that such a minority would come to abuse the power to "extort unreasonable indulgences.
The embattled lawyer has also been charged in New York with attempting to extort $25 million from Nike.
"[CJNG] want to legitimize themselves—they say they only sell drugs and don't extort or kidnap," Leon said.
While Republican moderates constantly tried to extort more money from leadership to get their votes, conservatives like Sens.
Large parties never recovered, and single-issue small parties learned to exploit their power and extort the system.
He sought to collude — or, more accurately, extort — a foreign government into helping him win a domestic election.
Would he use the power of the presidency to extort sex from women too intimidated to say no?
Neymar denied the allegation in an Instagram post and has said the woman was trying to extort him.
Migrants say video or audio of them being tortured is relayed to their families to extort cash transfer payments.
The kidnappers had targeted him in an attempt to extort about €5 million [$5,213,200 USD] from the Bengtsson family.
Would he use the power of the presidency to extort sexual favors from women too intimidated to say no?
In addition, Avenatti's also in the feds' crosshairs for allegedly trying to extort Nike outta more than $20 mil.
Their role is protecting the oil ports, though critics have said they used it to extort money from Tripoli.
He was charged with honest services wire fraud, attempted extortion, and transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort.
In the last few days, one woman attempted to extort me for $103,000 only to recant her ridiculous claim.
An Uber lawyer says the ex-employee who made allegations about security practices was trying to extort the company.
Federal prosecutors in New York later announce Avenatti is being charged for attempting to extort $20 million from Nike.
Ennis had set out to ruin Foster's fledgling career in the NFL and extort him for money, she said.
Ramanathan only really wanted to IP "to essentially extort a seven-figure cash payment" from another Khosla portfolio company.
Ms. Choi was indicted Sunday on charges of using her influence with Ms. Park to extort millions from businesses.
He was accused of trying to extort $6 million worth of Bitcoin from HBO in July, the indictment said.
Some executives in Brazil's largest construction companies realized this was a way to extort a great deal of money.
Pro-government armed groups, known as colectivos, began to work openly with corrupt police officers to extort and steal.
He's facing three charges: attempted extortion, honest services wire fraud and transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort.
Avenatti was charged with transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, attempted extortion and honest services wire fraud.
The men made videos of the abuse to either sell underground or use to extort money from victims' families.
Ms. Park has been accused of conspiring with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to extort millions from big businesses.
Officials are trying to extort cash while they can, out of fear that they may eventually lose their jobs.
" Prosecutors said Avenatti tried to extort Nike because he "was deeply in debt" and "owed a ton of money.
"The cost of spare parts goes up, because what they do is extort you," he said, speaking of Moscow.
She also denied helping Choi extort from companies and said she never allowed her friend to interfere with government affairs.
Both the police and military have often gone for months without pay, encouraging them to extort money from angry civilians.
Sheen is adamant she knew about his HIV status when they met, and believes she's just trying to extort him.
" He added, "This was part of her and her lawyers campaign to extort money from Jim and ultimately he succumbed.
Democrats never tried to extort concessions by threatening to cut off U.S. borrowing and create a financial crisis; Republicans did.
Most of the gold processed in Uganda comes from areas controlled by armed militias that extort money from artisanal miners.
The Mexican attorney general's office said organized crime cells are using government records to identify and eventually extort avocado producers.
His paternity was never proven, and Jackson later served two years in prison for trying to extort money from Cosby.
XXX domain, noting ICM now had the power to extort companies seeking to register domains defensively to avoid brand dilution.
Honduras, where some 64 percent of households are in poverty, is afflicted by gangs that violently extort people and businesses.
"They used Cambodia as a place to extort money from victims abroad, including people in Thailand," Sao Sokha told Reuters.
"The blockade leaders are trying to extort us and our company will not give in to this extortion," Harvey said.
Mr. Fatoyinbo said on Instagram that many people have used similar accusations to try to extort him and the ministry.
A revamped Pyongyang will also extort Japan and entangle the United States with more sequels to its two-act scheme.
Attacking civilian populations in order to extort the government to change its policies qualifies as an offense under the statute.
They tell us the bills would curtail so-called "patent trolls" who abuse the system to extort businesses and consumers.
And if you can steal somebody's email and extort that person in an anonymous currency, that's a challenge for us.
The embattled 48-year-old has since pleaded not guilty to charges he attempted to extort Nike for $25 million.
Civil lawsuits filed by Hardin in part alleged that Schnare mismanaged the group's finances and then tried to extort $250,000.
A relative of Tyrann Mathieu has been accused of trying to extort $5 million from the Kansas City Chiefs safety.
In a statement to Motherboard, FunPlus Chief Strategy Officer Dan Fiden claimed the hacker had attempted to extort the company.
In 2011, when House Republicans threatened to drive the government into default to extort political concessions, I left the party.
With fewer extremists to fight, the groups began to branch out, making money by using their checkpoints to extort truckers.
Some using ransomware hope to extort money — sometimes in the form of cryptocurrencies — from companies whose systems are shut down.
The criminal gang MS-13 then tried to extort Ysaias (his name has been changed here to protect his identity).
Cliven Bundy was the leader of the movement to extort the federal government into returning his cattle, the indictment said.
Often they extort local populations, engage in retaliation against rival and minority clans or steal land and other economic resources.
Kessler's supposed trove might have provided an answer: Epstein was using damning video to extort the men in his circle.
He tried to extort Nike because he "was deeply in debt" and "owed a ton of money," the prosecutors said.
In the New York case, Avenatti is accused of attempting to extort more than $20 million from sportswear company Nike.
It's rather simple: Donald Trump abused his power as president to extort a foreign country into investigating a political rival.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Monday charged lawyer Michael Avenatti for attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
Garcia guilty of conspiring to extort the $76,000 and did not reach a verdict on her role in the loan.
Most of it is designed to extort money from victims, but there are some pretty awful characters on both sides.
According to police, Wang faked her own kidnapping in order to extort an $85,20183 ransom from her father in China.
In March, federal prosecutors in New York arrested him for allegedly attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
Using the habitual narco offer of "plata or plomo," or "silver or lead," gangs extort refinery workers into providing crucial information.
The pro-government Azerbaijani news channel Real TV harassed and attempted to extort Sevinc Osmanqizi in retaliation for her political reporting.
To fund their efforts in the civil war, FARC would would kidnap wealthy people, and their extort their family for money.
In 2017, Hart publicly admitted that someone was attempting to extort him with video of Hart having sex with another woman.
Sheen's attorney has denied the allegations, saying Ross is trying to extort money from the former "Two and Half Men" star.
Army commanders, of which Congo has far too many, are bought off with lucrative postings where they can smuggle or extort.
Jeff Sessions suggested that the Democratic presidential candidate used her high position to "extort" from international governments for her family's foundation.
They would extort companies for their services after they were already targeted and also leased their botnet out to other attackers.
BeckZack's principal owner was Morris Levy, who was convicted in May 1988 of conspiring to extort payments from a record wholesaler.
Rojas was arrested and jailed for a week on accusations he and three attorneys for the community tried to extort MMG.
Avenatti was arrested in New York City for an alleged attempt to extort as much as $25 million out of Nike.
He pledged to clean the immigration agency of corruption and that there would be "no tolerance" for officials who extort migrants.
Zakharova tried to extort $5,000 from a second man by also threatening to expose their relationship, prosecutors said in a statement.
" She said the allegations in Kesha's lawsuit are "outright lies that have been advanced to extort a contract renegotiation and money.
Barrrasso in a statement Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin uses his country's natural gas to "extort and threaten" U.S. allies.
Last week, Motherboard first reported that a group of hackers calling themselves the Turkish Crime Family was attempting to extort Apple.
The police harass and extort us, and the UN isn't going to help you as long as you're in the city.
That explains why she told Adam about Corinne's faked pregnancy but did not extort him like most of her other victims.
Now back to Bezos: In February 2019, Bezos wrote a lengthy post on Medium accusing AMI of trying to extort him.
He was charged Friday in US District Court with transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort and threat to injure.
She was accused of conspiring with Choi Soon-sil, a longtime friend and confidante, to accept bribes and extort major companies.
In the short run, the president's possible attempts to extort Ukraine to investigate Biden's family elevates the former vice president. Sen.
Former Senator Rick Santorum, for instance, has defended the actions by Trump to extort political advantages from Ukraine on that basis.
Ms. Choi has been indicted on charges of leveraging her influence with Ms. Park to extort the money from the businesses.
It's been clear for some time, based on multiple witnesses' testimony, that Trump sought to extort Ukraine for his political ends.
Avenatti tried to extort more than $20 million from Nike, according to a federal complaint filed in New York's Southern District.
At first, he might extort targets in private, threatening to sell or release their data if they don't pay the ransom.
Pamela Chrisley has been arrested after allegedly trying to extort money from her brother-in-law, Chrisley Knows Best star Todd Chrisley.
Osinoff also claimed Warren's parents tried to extort money from Puliafito, but Sarah and Charles Warren denied the allegations, the Times reported.
In a separate case in New York, Avenatti is accused of attempting to extort more than $20 million from sportswear company Nike.
Border guards have orders to shoot to kill—a power they often abuse to extort money or sex from would-be refugees.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accused his girlfriend's brother of seeking to extort him by suing for defamation, according to a court filing.
In 1998, afederal grand jury indicted him for a scheme to extort millions of dollars inpayments for casino licenses in the state.
Jillian Michaels was so fed up with a yacht crew allegedly trying to extort her she took matters into her own hands.
It contains a broadly worded clause prohibiting use of the telecoms network to "extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, inappropriately influence or intimidate".
Sessions wants an investigation because he suggested Clinton used her position to possibly "extort" money from international governments for her family's foundation.
During the two-year investigation, police documented 33 separate crimes and 22 attempts, many successful, to extort shops and businesses, police said.
American Housewife actress Katy Mixon is fighting back against an ex-nanny she alleges is trying to extort money from her family.
Did John Paul Getty III plan his own kidnapping to extort money from his grandfather, or was he caught completely off guard?
" They also allege that Chyna's relationship with Kardashian was a "deliberate attempt to extort the Kardashian family for her own monetary gain.
According to those sources, soon after Nash approached Goguen, Goguen went to local authorities, saying that Nash was attempting to extort him.
Uber also argued in court that the former employee sought to extort money from the company after getting fired for poor performance.
Former ESPN boss John Skipper says he resigned last year because someone who had sold him cocaine was threatening to extort him.
McConnell faces an important decision: continue to allow patent trolls to extort America's businesses, or defend entrepreneurs and the jobs they create.
Marauding militias press households to give up their sons for combat or extort money from families to allow males to stay home.
Today, we see hackers successfully using ransomware to extort hospitals and other businesses after cutting off access to their systems and data.
Rather than searching for weapons and other contraband, soldiers extort bribes at checkpoints to pay for their habit, jacking up transport costs.
Ayoola's unearned adulation, the cops who extort her at traffic stops, the petty auntie: they're all part of the same corrupt order.
Continuing a trend from years past, hackers used ransomware to extort state and local governments across the nation for money throughout 2019.
The Canadian teen, who was bullied in school, committed suicide after a man stalked her and used webcam photos to extort her.
It is possible, investigators say, that the attack on Dyn was conducted by a criminal group that wanted to extort the company.
The same indictment accused her of trying to extort $5,000 from a second man, Paul Nippes, the owner of a toy store.
This lawsuit is nothing more than a media-hungry lawyer's attempt to extort Mr. Weber with false, fictitious and legally frivolous claims.
Hours later, in a different courthouse nearby, he again pleaded not guilty to charges that he attempted to extort money from Nike.
Lawyer Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty to charges relating to an alleged attempt to extort footwear and clothing company Nike for millions.
It's a regular occurrence on places like YouTube and Twitch, and YouTube even sued someone who was using them to extort creators.
The militias also extort criminals and kill those who don't pay, operations that hardly differ from the ones they are supposedly confronting.
The freeze on the aid is at the heart of allegations that Trump essentially sought to extort Ukraine into launching the investigations.
She cited them as saying police were trying to extort money from them, ranging from 20,000 to 200,000 pesos ($400 to $4,000).
At that time, "patent trolls" were using old, questionable patents to extort money from high-tech companies that independently developed innovative products.
Today, the celebrity lawyer was indicted on both coasts -- almost simultaneously -- for allegedly attempting to extort Nike and wire and bank fraud.
In that interview, the president of the United States sounded just like a mobster trying to extort protection payments from a shopkeeper.
The celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti faces charges in what prosecutors have described as a scheme to extort millions of dollars from Nike.
He was accused of trying to extort more than $15 million from the apparel giant, which had in turn contacted the authorities.
It also goes on to list Asante's previous arrests and claims she's in cahoots with Joycelyn Savage's father to extort the singer.
"In principle, dual nationals have been used as bargaining chips, not so much to 'extort' money but for political purposes," he said.
Whether someone is guilty or innocent, said Leuders, the freedom-of-information activist, it's still wrong to extort him or her for money.
Today, Uber's deputy general counsel Angela Padilla claimed the former employee made the claims in the letter in an effort to extort Uber.
In El Salvador, nine years ago, members of the local MS-5003 gang tried to persuade Rodriguez's son-in-law to extort her.
Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels, was convicted Friday on all three counts he faced for attempting to extort Nike.
Hackers tried to extort English rock band Radiohead for $150,000, threatening to release archived music that the band never intended to be published.
Moreover, as part of his activities trying to extort hacking victims of money, he exposed his name by sending victims his banking information.
The threats came after his Breakfast Club appearance in which he had claimed his booking agent was stealing and attempting to extort him.
A former boyfriend of Jenni "JWoww" Farley reportedly attempted to extort the reality star out of thousands of dollars, according to Page Six.
They extort testimony that&aposs false out of these people -- HANNITY: That&aposs what Judge Ellis meant when he said sing or compose.
Kevin Hart is apologizing to his wife and kids after an unidentified person allegedly tried to extort him for a sexually suggestive video.
None other than Radiohead itself, who did it to undercut someone trying to extort the band for $150,000 to keep the songs offline.
That's when Skipper revealed that he purchased cocaine from a new dealer for the first time and that they attempted to extort him.
Separately, the lawyer was arrested on Monday on charges that he was trying to extort more than $2300 million from apparel maker Nike.
JWoww also claims Roger was partly responsible for her ex-BF, Thomas Lippolis, being arrested last month for allegedly trying to extort her.
These aggressive letters effectively extort their victims into settlements, threatening an expensive and drawn-out litigation process if they try to fight back.
The hackers have previously tried to extort medical organizations by demanding a sizable ransom payment in exchange for not releasing hacked data publicly.
The threats were "unprecedented tactics designed to extort public officials into undertaking actions that would benefit the pocketbooks of its members," he wrote.
The affidavit alleges the hackers meant to use the malware to lock victims' computers and then extort payments from them to regain access.
From there, it is used in England and France and elsewhere to extort Jews, increase feudal lords' power and make themselves look good.
Her lawyer has said she had a long-term relationship with Mr. Spitzer and has denied she tried to extort money from him.
"I think it's just like, 'I prefer where you can see the amount of privilege that I can exhibit and extort,'" she said.
Alexei Ulyukayev, the ex-economy minister, was accused of trying to extort a bribe from Russian oil major Rosneft, an allegation he denies.
This past week, Ms. Choi was arrested and charged with using her influence with Ms. Park to extort large sums from Korean companies.
Prosecutors say Ms. Park conspired with Choi Soon-sil, an old friend, to extort tens of millions of dollars from South Korean businesses.
Ms. Choi is accused of using her connection to the president to extort money, advance her own daughter's career and influence government policy.
Avenatti is charged with attempting to extort Nike over claims of evidence that the sportswear company was involved in illegal payments to athletes.
Powerful figures in business with connections to the Russian state often use the security forces to extort money or favors from weaker rivals.
After the break, lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff lists 10 reasons to show how Trump sought to extort Ukraine for personal gain
But Clary alleged her parents encouraged her at 17 to take photos with Kelly and sexual videos so they could extort the star.
Washington (CNN)A Jamaican man chose the wrong person to try to extort: the only one to lead both the FBI and CIA.
They threatened to portray her as having consented to sex and then making a false claim so she could extort Ronaldo for money.
There the 14-year-old shrewdly observed mobsters shaking down local merchants and, inspired, organized a ring to extort his fellow shoeshine boys.
The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were investigating Mr. Bezos' claim that The National Enquirer sought to extort or blackmail him.
The latest suit calls this "a conspiracy by North to extort the N.R.A." Any move against Mr. Cox could lead to further litigation.
When lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys.
"We are dealing with a completely unprofessional mafia who are there simply to extort as much as they can while in office," he said.
Increasingly, well-off Hondurans who own a home and have steady employment are trying to leave after gangs tried to extort and threaten them.
As Dr. Luke has said repeatedly, the allegations against him are outright lies that have been advanced to extort a contract renegotiation and money.
My point of view is that austerity is an excuse to disempower people and put in place power systems to extort money from people.
Heller goes on to claim Bennett smelled a payday and tried to extort Argento, especially when he found out she was dating Anthony Bourdain.
Scammers are using Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat to extract explicit photos from vulnerable young people, which are later used against them to extort money.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged Avenatti for allegedly trying to extort $20 million from Nike, CBS News reported.
That forces the would-be asylum-seekers to camp out near the border for days, where criminals are at the ready to extort them.
Ms Choi, prosecutors say, went on to use her clout with the president to extort money and favours from big companies and other organisations.
An actor has been charged with trying to extort Kevin Hart with an alleged sex tape of him with another woman in Las Vegas.
But the law's most contentious clause, which broadly prohibits the use of the telecommunications network to "extort, defame, disturb or intimidate" remains in place.
A study in Norway into how drug dealers managed debtors found that most preferred to either extort and control their victims over using violence.
He has sort to extort the Kemsleys with the threat of publicity and a fabricated lawsuit which now sits in the realms of fantasy.
The indictment released on Wednesday said the eldest Bundy was the leader of the movement to extort the federal government into returning his cattle.
Section 20173 was inconsistently enforced, but police and others sometimes weaponized the law to harass, blackmail, or extort transgender or gay people — especially men.
Katz's lawyers, meanwhile, claim that Cipriani and Santo tried to "extort $3 million from Katz as the price for keeping quiet," according to Variety.
According to legal docs, Sweeney claims LuVisi's messages got more ominous over the past 9 months... trying to extort thousands of dollars from her.
Of course, Avenatti was indicted by the feds for allegedly attempting to extort Nike to keep all this info under wraps ... something Avenatti denies.
Eliot Spitzer of assaulting her in a hotel room in February was arrested Monday for allegedly trying to extort money from him, PEOPLE confirms.
The police spokesman did not say how much she allegedly tried to extort from Spitzer, but ABC New York reports the figure as $50,000.
The hacker or hackers, who call themselves The Dark Overlord, recently tried to extort a series of health care organisations into paying hefty ransoms.
Among her most famous cases involved Autumn Jackson, who was convicted in 1997 of attempting to extort millions of dollars from comedian Bill Cosby.
It can involve hacking into victims' computers to steal sexual images or even commandeer a webcam, then using the files to extort the targets.
Farley claimed that Lippolis had attempted to extort $25,000 from her "in exchange for not divulging secrets to the media," according to the release.
He is accused of working with members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) to extort money from victims, including some U.S. companies.
Local media published the transcripts of two supposed conversations between an employee of Movistar, Telefonica's local unit, and a man attempting to extort $13,600.
Although the law banning homosexuality is rarely enforced in India, it is used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from homosexuals, activists say.
It was a calculated move to preserve, even enhance, the company's leverage in trying to extort taxpayer-funded handouts for projects across the country.
Months later, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office charged his former friend with using video evidence of Hart's affair to attempt to extort him.
Heng An advisor to the president of South Korea was arrested and charged with using her influence to extort large sums from Korean companies.
In a Medium blog post published in February, Bezos accused AMI of trying to extort him by threatening to release compromising photos of him.
While these attacks tend to target businesses, they've also been used to extort individuals like a NASCAR crew chief and even other ransomware developers.
Authorities have already executed search warrants on multiple people suspected in the plot to extort Kevin Hart over the sex tape ... TMZ has learned.
Then — as though Trump needed a cherry on top of his two-scoop sundae — Michael Avenatti got arrested for allegedly attempting to extort Nike.
Mr. Roberts has denied the claims and said they were made by women he had rejected or who wanted to extort him for money.
"We got very clear instructions to leave as soon as possible for fear of being detained or interrogated to extort my dad," she said.
" On MSNBC, the host Chris Hayes praised the officers, telling viewers they had revealed "brand-new evidence of the president's plot to extort Ukraine.
It said that the message "read as a threat to intimidate or extort" a senior executive at the hedge fund based on false insinuations.
Regime-allied armed groups often set up checkpoints and extort taxes from farmers and businessmen, making it that much harder to earn a living.
Family members of those depicted in the videos confirmed to CNN that they had been sent the videos in an attempt to extort ransom.
Bezos has previously implied that AMI, the National Enquirer's parent company, tried to extort him to please either President Trump or the Saudi government.
After the Enquirer published a bombshell story about Bezos' love life in January, the tech billionaire alleged that the tabloid tried to extort him.
There's no indication yet who may have deployed the attack, and there are a number of active groups that use ransomware to extort funds.
And the news suggests Trump kept pushing to extort Ukraine even after he knew people within his administration were raising alarms about his actions.
He is scheduled to be sentenced June 17 on the charges of extortion, transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort, and wire fraud.
Attorney Michael Avenatti was reportedly found guilty Friday on charges that he tried to extort footwear and clothing giant Nike for millions of dollars.
Although the law banning homosexuality is rarely enforced in India, it is used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from gay people, activists say.
In South Korea, President Park Geun-hye faces impeachment over charges that a family confidant used their relationship to extort millions of dollars from businesses.
The President and his campaign appeared to pin the bill dispute on Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, calling the bill an attempt to "extort" the campaign.
Farley claimed that Lippolis had attempted to extort $25,000 from her "in exchange for not divulging secrets to the media," according to the press release.
Aftermath of a Cheating Scandal In 2017, a close friend of Hart's allegedly tried to extort him over a video of him with another woman.
In her testimony, Padilla said the employee, Richard Jacobs, was trying to extort money from the company and there was no merit to his claims.
It determined that she had not only conspired with a confidante to extort money from big firms, but had also attempted to conceal her wrongdoing.
The idea is to improve relations with residents, who have grown up in a country where a policeman is more likely to extort than protect.
NICKI MINAJ'S BROTHER REPORTEDLY CHARGED WITH RAPING A MINOR Maraj's defense claims the victim's mother made up the allegations to extort $25 million from Minaj.
The 2 new indictments were filed in Manhattan, and include a set of charges related to his alleged attempts to extort $20 million from Nike.
Jughead tells Penny that if she wants to deal drugs and extort people she can do it somewhere else but not on the South Side.
A federal grand jury in New York indicted the celebrity lawyer for that and for allegedly trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
The Ministry of Health instituted a mandatory condom policy in brothels, threatening to close them down or extort high fines if STD rates didn't diminish.
He was arrested last week in New York, where he was charged in a separate case with trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike.
Avenatti is accused of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to hurt the athletic apparel giant financially with negative publicity.
So much so that impersonating an ICE agent seems to be one of the latest tactics adopted by anti-immigrants to extort and harass immigrants.
She denied trying to extort Miller -- saying it was HIS legal team that made the first cash offer and she was down to play ball.
If that happened, I could extort or blackmail them, and they would have to go to an ATM and give me a lot of money.
The bill also makes it a crime to use sexually explicit content to extort for personal gain, punishable by up to seven years in prison.
It's possible, Maxwell argues, that North Korea turned up the rhetoric to extort a response from Trump and prompt the US to back out first.
A comedian with 1.3 million followers posted her own nude photo on Twitter after blackmailers allegedly tried to extort her by threatening to release it.
But many men – and they are mostly men – share others' intimate images to extort money, because it arouses them, or they say, just for fun.
In several cases, Italian prosecutors said, he paid Libyan officials to free migrants from Libyan jails, then sought to extort compensation from the migrants' families.
Choi also faces separate charges, which have yet to be heard, of extortion, abuse of power and attempted fraud to extort bribes from business conglomerates.
" When asked if they planned to extort the client companies as well, Boris wrote, "no, these companies are not guilty of awful work of citycomp.
She was also accused of using her influence to extort $69 million from big businesses in the form of donations to two foundations she controlled.
According to South Korean prosecutors, Ms. Choi not only meddled in official affairs but also used her connections to extort millions of dollars from businesses.
Then at least two hackers found the data, erased it, and attempted to extort the company, according to security researchers who saw the ransom messages.
In April, the NRA lost its president after just a year on the job after he was accused of attempting to extort the organization's CEO.
They are mainly formed of active-duty and retired police officers who assume control of the communities and extort money from ordinary citizens and shopkeepers.
They also travel on high alert for the gang members or train security guards who sometimes board the trains to extort or rob the riders.
One of the men recounted how, until recently, the firehouse was run by organized crime, as a way to extort those who needed their services.
Meanwhile ACCO experts have tracked how Mexican cartels and violent gangs use Facebook messenger to extort community members, and put out hits on their victims.
Officials later said that criminals had used the incident to try to extort millions of euros from logistics firm DHL, which had delivered the package.
The jury found reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed after Ms. Rotunno had argued the woman set Mr. Gueye up to extort $50,000.
The president and his campaign called out the city and Frey, accusing them of "attempting to extort" the campaign with security fees related the rally.
In 2018, Miguel said he was walking through a park in Totonicapán when he ran into one of the men who used to extort him.
As you know ... Lindsie and Todd's relationship is very turbulent, and she's publicly accused her father of trying to extort her with a sex tape.
But the worry that information could be used to rob, extort or prosecute them has discouraged many rich people from taking butlers into their confidence.
They worry that the much closer entry ports in Brownsville, Hidalgo, and Laredo, Texas, are closely monitored by cartels known to kidnap and extort migrants.
Avenatti was also arrested that month on charges that he attempted to extort Nike by releasing information about its sponsorship of high school basketball players.
One variation of this service, "ransomware," functions as a malware that encrypts files on a computer, preventing the owner from accessing them to extort payment.
Beijing accuses them of being part of an elaborate scheme in which fraudsters posed as law enforcement officials to extort money from residents in mainland China.
" She added: "As Dr. Luke has said repeatedly, the allegations against him are outright lies that have been advanced to extort a contract renegotiation and money.
The report said Lin, 46, set up a Kenyan fraud cell which called people in China to extort money by pretending to be law enforcement officers.
The suspect, according to Haaretz, has declined to cooperate with investigators, who believe that he attempted to extort money from the victims of the bomb threats.
Related: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer publisher tried to extort him Parker went on to explain why she decided to share the purported email.
The tactics are decades old; DDoS attacks are perpetrated by lone hackers trying to be annoying, criminals trying to extort money, and governments testing their tactics.
But he's derided these parties in the past as people who "extort" Israel's political class to get money for their communities in exchange for political backing.
"Startups with low numbers of customers don't have the leverage to extort money out of content providers, so you'd be artificially solidifying the monopolies," he said.
FOR an inkling of how hard it is for Italian authorities to identify Mafia activity, consider how mobsters disguise the pizzo, or protection payments, they extort.
The platform's hands-off approach to moderation has allowed copyright trolls to thrive for years — not only to extort money, but to doxx, slander, or troll.
Hart apologized to then-8-months pregnant Eniko as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
Islamic State militants in Libya are not directly involved in people smuggling, he said, but do extort the traffickers who operate in their territory, he said.
Taiwanese criminals "have been falsely presenting themselves as law enforcement officers to extort money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls", its has said.
Paul Ceglia, 45, a wood pellet salesman, faced charges of mail fraud and wire fraud over his alleged forging of documents to extort Facebook and Zuckerberg.
A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud and other Apple email accounts.
It's possible that Trump, the supposed master negotiator, is simply trying to extort the small countries of Eastern Europe and reduce America's financial commitment to NATO.
They are often held and transported in brutal conditions, passed between smugglers who take payments for different stages of the journey and extort money from migrants.
Farley, 32, claimed that Lippolis had attempted to extort $25,000 from her "in exchange for not divulging secrets to the media," according to the press release.
Gladys Knight says her son stooped so low in their legal battle, he attempted to extort his own mother if she didn't cut him a break.
As we reported ... the actress says she posted the pics to take back the power from her hacker, who she says was trying to extort her.
Hackers have stolen apparent internal documents from a Californian investment bank and published them online, likely in an effort to extort money from the victim company.
Despite a police threat of punishment for anyone trying to extort money from migrants or employers, "corrupt officials" would try to seek bribes, he told Reuters.
And there are many young boys, sometimes as young as 10 years old, who are forcibly recruited to sell drugs and extort money from the community.
Trump couldn't extort money for his wall from Mexico or Congress, so he's stealing it from agencies that keep this nation safe to get his way.
Taiwanese criminals "have been falsely presenting themselves as law enforcement officers to extort money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls", the ministry added.
Chuck refuses to extort Jimmy, essentially telling his younger brother that if he wants to sabotage his career, he'll have to do it on his own.
Different attackers might purchase the same list, starting the process over again or even zeroing in on those willing to pay and extort them for more.
It helps preserve the American tradition of judicial independence by denying senators the opportunity to extort pledges or promises in certain cases before approving a nomination.
Indiabulls said blackmailers were trying to extort money from the company, and had threatened to complain to various government departments if their demands were not met.
" Tahir Amin, a co-executive director of the initiative, added that "there are a lot of patent trolls trying to extort rents from low-quality patents.
Go forth and breathe the sweet, sweet oxygen of success, before capturing some in a clip jar and using it to extort people on the internet.
Does it not smack of someone so vengeful that he would view nothing wrong in trying to extort the Ukrainians for opposition research on his opponent?
These newly released documents not only show the level to which the President's efforts to allegedly extort a political benefit from a foreign nation were premeditated.
Mr. Shah, who also tried to extort executives like Harvey Weinstein and Ryan Kavanaugh, was sentenced in 2013 to more than seven years in federal prison.
Outrage at Ms. Park has grown in recent weeks over allegations that she let a private adviser manipulate her and extort large sums from Korean companies.
They compared the use of torture to extort testimony to the practices used by Soviet security forces during Stalin's purges in the 1930s and early 1950s.
In April, he reiterated his vow to pursue the smugglers, many of whom extort their clients by demanding exorbitant sums, or resort to kidnapping or violence.
An affidavit obtained by The Cincinnati Enquirer alleges that she attempted to bribe and extort, including exchanging her votes for money, between August and December 2019.
The Papa John's board acted after Schnatter appeared on Louisville television claiming that PR agency Laundry Service tried to extort $6 million from the pizza chain.
Former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal insists she did not extort Donald Trump ... as Fox News host Tucker Carlson repeatedly claimed, so now she's suing the network.
Her mother, Ms. Choi, has been indicted on charges of using her influence with Ms. Park to extort tens of millions of dollars from big businesses.
CBC reported that in 2017, at least three Chinese international students were targeted by scammers who attempted to extort money from their families back in China.
The former governor was convicted for attempting to extort a children's hospital and to sell President Obama's Senate seat when he went to the White House.
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In other news, hackers tried to extort Netflix by threatening to put the unreleased, upcoming season of Orange Is the New Black online, a pretty serious miscalculation.
Parker hitting back at the tabloid comes just three months after Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos accused the then-publisher of the outlet of trying to extort him.
And, while this aggression has largely taken the form of economic malfeasance, corrupt political engineering, and a willingness to extort, it may soon take a kinetic form.
To maintain control, gang members extort money at gunpoint, rape women and girls, murder, and force children to join their ranks, said the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
Hart apologized to his then-8-months pregnant wife as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
According to Amnesty International, it colludes with smugglers networks and Libyan detention center guards who torture and extort money from migrants in exchange for passage to Europe.
One company says a group is attempting to extort it with the threat of spreading a wave of fake, negative reviews and complaints across Instagram and Twitter.
Xinhua said the Armenia-based fraudsters "had been falsely presenting themselves as law enforcement officers to extort money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls".
When former NRA President Oliver North raised concerns about potential financial mismanagement earlier this year, LaPierre accused him of trying to stage a coup and extort LaPierre.
Brecht reportedly also tried to extort a pizza shop with DDoS attacks, asking for ransom payments in exchange for letting the site function, reports Het Laatste Nieuws.
In March, another Spider-Man (what is it with Spider-Man?) held a 13-year-old boy hostage to extort a $10 tip from the boy's father.
Control of a school can mean not just a government salary but an opportunity to extort extra money from students and parents in fees or other charges.
In February, Bezos revealed in a Medium post that the chairman of AMI, the company that owns the tabloid The National Enquirer, had attempted to extort him.
The perpetrators, whose collective calling card was the symbol of a black hand, migrated from Italy to America and kidnapped people to extort money from their families.
Bezos then conducted an investigation into how that may have been leaked, culminating in his claim in February that the National Enquirer was attempting to extort him.
Ceglia, a 45-year-old wood pellet salesman, faced charges of mail fraud and wire fraud over his alleged forging of documents to extort Facebook and Zuckerberg.
The comedian apologized to his then-8-months pregnant wife as he revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
As long as Amazon keeps prices low—in other words, as long as it refrains from using its monopoly power to extort consumers—it's safe from scrutiny.
He also said that while the FARC had agreed to lay down arms, he believed the group was continuing to extort Colombians in the countryside they control.
Still, domestic critics and international experts have questioned the ethics of ceding to the litigating creditors, saying it paves the way for them to extort other countries.
Specifically, according to reports, Republicans were threatening to grind to a halt the vast majority of our nation's government to extort $5 billion for Trump's border wall.
Keith said there were indications Dorch and his wife tried to extort money from the children's mother, who used to live nearby, but did not provide details.
They decided to utilize an old symbol, the black hand or "la mano nera" to terrorize new Italian immigrants and extort large sums of money from them.
Scopo was a powerful labor racketeer, and he used his position to extort money from cement contractors, which would then be divvied up between four mob families.
Going by the handle The Dark Overlord, the group has stolen data from over a dozen companies and organizations, and then attempted to aggressively extort the victims.
Federal prosecutors say four men from the Boston-based Teamsters Local 25 tried to extort staff on Bravo's wildly popular cooking series—including its star Padma Lakshmi.
Armed with machetes, criminal gangs so well established they have a name, omo onile, roam Lagos building sites looking to extort money before allowing construction to begin.
Cambodia last month heeded China's plea to ban online gambling, an industry that brought in Chinese investment but had been used by foreign criminals to extort money.
As for sex tapes -- which Mel B claims Gilles and Belafonte used to extort her -- she says flat-out she's not in possession of any of them.
To speak of "threats" in both private and public; to assert that members of Congress are trying to "extort" federal law enforcement — well, that's quite an allegation.
But now, a new twist ... officials believe Trindade concocted an illegal, diabolical plot to falsely accuse Neymar of rape in an effort to extort the soccer superstar.
An Arizona state trooper was arrested Tuesday after allegations surfaced that he would extort women for sexual favors in exchange for leniency during traffic stops in Phoenix.
"Brady has submitted these notices as part of a scheme to harass and extort money from the users that he falsely accuses of infringement," the lawsuit reads.
"The rich ones, they will extort money from; the poor ones, they will use for sexual favors," said Mohnish Malhotra, a gay-rights activist in New Delhi.
The police commissioner involved in the case, Monique Ferreira Lima, said an investigation into whether Trindade made a false allegation and tried to extort Neymar would continue.
But they are vulnerable to exploitation, and as well as being sold into slavery some have been abducted and tortured to extort a payment for their release.
They had been hired by developers to extort slum dwellers into consenting to their houses being razed, in exchange for shabby tower blocks under a government program.
A lawyer for Mr. Hastert had told the investigators that Individual A was falsely claiming abuse by Mr. Hastert and was trying to extort money from him.
The pardons included notorious junk bond trader Michael Milken and Illinois lobbyist Rod Blagojevich who was convicted for, among other things, attempting to extort a children's hospital.
But the misuse of the litigation system to extort settlements from defendants who cannot afford the high cost of defense has tainted the good name of patents.
In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said Avenatti was trying to escape "a mountain of debt" when he tried to extort Nike last March.
In 2017, Hart apologized to his then-pregnant wife, Eniko Parrish, and his two children on social media, where he asserted Jackson was trying to extort him.
New York (CNN Business)In an explosive tell-all blog post published Thursday, Jeff Bezos accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of trying to extort him.
Trump is not just soliciting Ukraine's help with his presidential campaign; he is using U.S. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it.
In a filing last month, Flynn's lawyers accused special counsel Robert Mueller's team of suppressing key evidence and manipulating press coverage to corruptly "extort" a guilty plea.
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Others besides the Maciel brothers were suspected across Paraiso of using their oil-industry positions as perches from which to steal fuel, extort workers and commit other crimes.
At the time, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, official Tokugawa crime laws used knots to torture and extort confessions from captives and to display alleged criminals.
That seems to be the case with Brian Kil, a fictional Facebook bad guy who liked to extort underage girls into sending him nudes, according to the FBI.
Offset is threatening a woman who's been claiming all over social media he got her pregnant ... claiming she's trying to extort him for a fortune ... TMZ has learned.
Since April 2016, 21 journalists have been charged or arrested under a telecommunications law that broadly prohibits the use of telecommunications networks to "extort, defame, disturb or intimidate".
The comedian apologized to his then-8-months pregnant wife as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
In 2015 THP won a lawsuit against a consumer who attempted to extort cash from the company by claim he found a fly inside a THP bottled beverage.
Jim Carrey's late girlfriend Cathriona White forged STD test results in a prior attempt to extort the actor, Carrey's legal team claims in an explosive new court filing.
Hart 38, plays himself as he goes through a day presumably amid the news that an unidentified person allegedly tried to extort him for a sexually suggestive video.
She got through despite her association with Edward Burke, a politician recently charged by the FBI for trying to extort payments from executives of a fast-food restaurant.
Getty, then the world's richest private citizen, wouldn't budge, leaving Paul as the five-month hostage of Italian gangsters who hoped to extort $1203 million for his return.
As you know, Jeff Bezos had an affair and then got divorced and then wrote a post on Medium accusing the National Enquirer of trying to extort him.
A hacker has claimed responsibility for a reported distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against UK bank Lloyds, and says he attempted to extort the financial giant, too.
While prosecutors cannot indict Park until after she leaves office, they accuse her of helping an old friend and unofficial adviser, Choi Soon-sil, extort millions from businesses.
It was being used as evidence against Rob Ford's driver, Alexander Lisi, who was on trial for allegedly using the video to extort a now-convicted gang member.
A grand jury indictment accused McCoy of using his elected office to try to extort $2,000 from a Des Moines home security company where McCoy was a consultant.
The impeachment probe will focus on whether the president leveraged presidential powers to bribe or extort a foreign government in order to benefit personally in the 2020 elections.
Hackers are increasingly attempting to extort companies and individuals by threatening severe reputational harm through online reviews sites such as Yelp and TripAdvisor, security experts tell The Hill.
"We had nothing, just empty hands," said his girlfriend, Lorn Chenda, who alleged police tried to extort Chamroeun for $2,000 in "compensation" in exchange for not pressing charges.
The recorded content has the potential to be used to extort individuals and to force them to pay money in exchange for agreeing not to distribute the recordings.
This week, as part of its impeachment inquiry, the House begins public hearings into Trump's attempt to extort Ukraine's president into starting bogus investigations to benefit Trump politically.
The trial lasted over a month, and saw the defense arguing that the allegations were fabricated in an attempt to extort $25 million from the Maraj's famous sister.
The bill is aimed at cracking down on so-called revenge porn, in which a person uses the images as a way to harm or extort the victim.
John Fidler, Daniel Redmond, Michael Ross, and Robert Cafarelli are charged with conspiracy to extort and aiding and abetting—and each face up to 023 years in prison.
Smiling, the jaunty host—his hair striped black and silver liked magnesium—grips Serge's hand reassuringly, pretending to be something more than a parasite attempting to extort ratings.
A lawyer for Wey at trial argued his client and Bouveng never had sex, and that Bouveng attempted to extort Wey after she was fired for substandard work.
Michael Avenatti arrest: Federal prosecutors have accused the lawyer best known for representing the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike.
New York (CNN)Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, who was convicted of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike, is out of solitary confinement, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Hunter Biden doesn&apost have any ... relevant information about anything that Donald Trump was doing to extort an investigation of the Biden family out of the Ukranian government.
The issue of whether Trump used Congressionally-approved military aid as leverage to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating his political opponent is central to the impeachment proceedings.
In 2015, he was caught on tape apparently trying to extort billions of dollars' worth of shares from the Indonesian unit of the American mining giant Freeport-McMoRan.
"There are approximately 10,000 officials in Russia working for Putin who are given instructions to kill, torture, kidnap, extort money from people and seize their property," continues Browder.
Sometime after that, Huawei reported Li to police and accused him of blackmail, saying the money transfer was made in response to Li's attempt to extort the company.
Mr. Trump is not just soliciting Ukraine's help with his presidential campaign; he is using U.S. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it.
CNN affiliate CBC reported that in 2017, at least three Chinese international students were targeted by scammers who attempted to extort money from their families back in China.
Later, he was killed — in police headquarters in Manila — while officers allegedly continued to extort ransom money from his wife under the pretense that he was still alive.
Hart apologized to his then-8-months pregnant wife Eniko Parrish as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
Along the way they are prey to an array of armed groups and smuggling networks that often try to extort extra money in exchange for allowing migrants to continue.
In late July, Mesri is accused of attempting to extort HBO executives, threatening to destroy data on the company's computer servers, and leaking portions of the stolen data online.
Avenatti entered his pleas to extortion, communication with intent to extort and two counts of conspiracy in connection with Nike at an afternoon hearing in federal court in Manhattan.
To enforce control, Central American street gangs, known as maras, rape women and girls, murder, force children to join their ranks, and extort money at gunpoint, according to UNHCR.
She denied being part of the extortion attempt against Hart While at the conference, Sabbag denied the accusations that she was using the video to extort money from Hart.
Novanto was reinstated as speaker in November 2016 after being accused of trying to extort $1.8 billion of shares from the local unit of U.S. miner Freeport McMoran Inc.
Michael Avenatti, who rose to fame last year as a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, was arrested yesterday and charged with attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike.
"This election tax has given these men the green light to extort money from the population all the time," says Lewis Mudge of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
A lawyer for Nicki Minaj's older brother claims the family of the accuser in his child sex assault case attempted to extort millions from the rap star, PEOPLE confirms.
Shortly after she was dropped off the consulate, Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen and British resident, was arrested and charged with kidnapping to extort money and falsifying documents.
It's a relevant consideration today, as federal investigators ponder whether Russia has the evidence with which to blackmail or extort Trump administration officials — and so influence American foreign policy.
In response to the accusation of breaking anti-hacking laws, LeakedSource said they didn't access any computer without authorization, and have no intent to either defraud or extort money.
Sometimes, as occurred to a similarly afflicted Kansas hospital in 2016 that chose to pay the ransom, the hackers will simply attempt to extort more payments from the target.
The New York Daily News reported in 2008 that Cali was among 62 people arrested on federal racketeering charges and he later pleaded guilty to conspiring to extort money.
These attacks can range from distributed denial of service attacks, to schemes designed to obtain confidential, personal information, to encryption programs designed to extort money from victims of attacks.
Since their relationship ended, Sheen alleges Doe has "attempted to extort millions of dollars" from him by publicly disclosing his medical condition, even though she signed a nondisclosure agreement.
If AMI did extort Bezos, that means it broke the law — which would put it in breach of a previous "non prosecution" agreement with U.S. prosecutors, Bloomberg News reported.
" 10:12 AM PT -- We spoke with Pedro who is adamant he and his girlfriend are NOT trying to extort BJ. "There have been absolutely no talks about money.
As we previously reported, Von filed legal docs in an effort to block Ruiz from releasing the tape -- and claimed she was trying to extort him for $2.5 MILLION.
Wey's lawyer, Glenn Colton, contended at trial that his client and Bouveng never had sex, and that Bouveng attempted to extort Wey after she was fired for substandard work.
In it, Guselnikov accuses a senior Latvian official, later identified as Rimsevics, of seeking bribes from PNB and of using the FCMC's decisions "as a goad to extort" money.
Mr. Bollea's new lawsuit also accuses a Florida radio host and several other people of participating in a "willful and malicious conspiracy to extort him" and invade his privacy.
Angela Padilla, deputy general counsel at the company, said in court testimony that Jacobs' claims were an effort to extort money from the company, an allegation Jacobs' lawyer denied.
Last Friday, less than 22 hours after detailing a bizarre plot by the National Enquirer to extort him with nude photos, Jeff Bezos took some hostages of its own.
The lender came into the spotlight when it accused Latvia's central bank chief Ilmars Rimsevics of seeking bribes and using the local supervisor's decisions "as a goad to extort".
Avenatti on Monday was arrested and charged in connection with a scheme to extort millions of dollars from Nike under threat of revealing damaging information at a press conference.
Kenyatta's attorney claimed in court that the first two witnesses tried to extort him in exchange for information that could aid the defense, and when he refused, threatened him.
Solus has indicated that it has no plans to contribute to the fund, saying in a letter to investors that the stakeholders group was trying to "extort" investment firms.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos claimed Thursday that the owner of the National Enquirer tried to blackmail and extort him over naked pictures he sent to his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez.
Once they have a foothold in the community, militia members extort money from residents and shopkeepers (in other words, they demand payments that are partly for protection against themselves).
It also appeared deeply dishonest about his own role in trying to extort Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to pursue investigations that would be of propaganda value to the president.
Exhibit C is Trump withholding military assistance to Ukraine, while Ukraine was under attack from Russia, in a transparent attempt to blackmail, bribe or extort Ukraine into attacking Biden.
In its own statement, the hedge fund contended that the message "read as a threat to intimidate or extort" a senior executive at the firm based on false insinuations.
Arguably the most shocking media/politics story of the year broke in February when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos alleged that the National Enquirer attempted to extort and blackmail him.
Mr. Qaisari was a district police chief in northern Faryab Province when he was accused of using his hundreds of armed men on the government payroll to extort locals.
Then, in February 2019, Bezos published a blog post that claimed the National Enquirer was trying to extort him over text messages and dick pics related to his affair.
"Not only does Mr. Brown seek to clear his name, but he also desires to make a statement that there is not an open season to extort professional athletes."
His attempts to extort Ukraine's current leaders into trying to substantiate this false theory — as well as investigate former Vice President Joe Biden — are why he's currently facing impeachment.
"They tried to extort us and we held firm and they took what I said and ran to Forbes and Forbes printed it and it went viral," Schnatter said.
As Iran's leaders feel the squeeze of the Trump administration's decision to reinforce economic sanctions, they predictably are acting out to try to extort a better outcome for themselves.
They're still there and they're still a problem and as I used to say at news conferences, they still use baseball bats and extort people and terrorize other folks.
"The Gielatas' sole goal is to extort payment to line their pockets, not only without benefiting the class, but delaying distribution of the settlement proceeds," Pomerantz said its sanctions brief.
"All too often, objectors attempt to abuse the appellate process in class action settlements in order extort monies from class counsel while providing no benefit to the class," he said.
Typically, they will beg for their life, and you can choose to invite them to your roster of summonable monsters, extort them for cash and items, or simply kill them.
The men said that they then downloaded private customer information, anonymously contacted security officials at the companies and tried to extort them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin.
Besides, a government that threatens to shut its refugee camps or uproot millions of migrant workers from their homes might be able to extort some money out of Western donors.
The immediate cause of the protests was Ms Park's abuse of power: she shared state secrets with an old friend and colluded with her to extort money from big companies.
It has become a hideous blend of zero-hours contracts and excuses to extort charges for everything from handbaggage that is deemed too big to failing to check in online.
Four members of Teamsters Union Local 25  – Robert Cafarelli, John Fidler, Daniel Remond and Michael Ross – are charged with attempting to extort a nonunion production company, according to ABC News.
From there, the hackers can extort a victim for financial gain, or they can use the phone number and its recovery benefits to reset Amazon, Instagram, Twitter, and other accounts.
The video was used as an exhibit in the extortion trial of Rob's friend, Sandro Lisi ... who was charged with trying to extort a gang member to get the clip.
Jim Carrey has fired back at the mother of his former girlfriend who committed suicide, saying the girlfriend tried to extort him by falsely accusing him of giving her herpes.
Dr. Luke's own position is that Kesha and her reps are attempting to extort him in order to extricate her from contracts with Luke's Kemosabe Records label, housed under Sony.
To put this another way, after years of failing to extract concessions from Democrats by threatening to harm the country, Republicans are now repurposing those same threats to extort themselves.
Shohlagar, 33, traveled to Libya with people smugglers in the hope of reaching Europe, but when he got there, the smugglers held him captive to extort money from his family.
Following the rules is mathematically enforced—no government or police force need come in and tell you the transaction you've logged is false (or extort bribes or bully the participants).
Some members of the police and military are said to finance gold mining operations, extort protection money, oversee their own mines and ensure the safe transit of mercury and gold.
CNN reported that he was charged on Friday in U.S. District Court with "transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort and threat to injure," and released on $10,000 bond.
"He will extort support from the ranks of Republican officialdom, which may already be too tainted by allegiance to Trump to credibly sever ties with its criminal leader," Beutler wrote.
Ezekiel Elliott says the security guard he pushed in a Las Vegas altercation demanded $500,000 in an attempt to extort him ... this according to police docs obtained by TMZ Sports.
Prosecutors said he tried to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to expose what he called its improper payments to recruits for college basketball teams it sponsored.
"This is someone that I cared about, we were tight, we were buddies, we hung out," Mr. Williams said, suggesting that Mr. Woodyard was trying to extort money from him.
Later in the day, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the threat of ransomware, in which cyber criminals use malware to encrypt a victim's computer in order to extort payment.
In her speech on Tuesday, Ms. Park denied prosecutors' accusations that she helped an old friend, Choi Soon-sil, extort the equivalent of $69 million from large South Korean companies.
"We recognize that the bug bounty program is not an appropriate vehicle for dealing with intruders who seek to extort funds from the company," he said in his written testimony.
Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer each rose over 5003 percent while Merck & Co jumped 2.8 percent after Trump in a speech said foreign governments "extort" unreasonably low prices from U.S. drugmakers.
Nicki Minaj will take the stand during her brother's child rape trial ... and is expected to tell jurors the mother of the alleged victim attempted to extort her for millions.
The group has since carried out revenge attacks against anti-Taliban activists and attempted to extort money from businessmen in a region where Pakistan has stationed more than 4,000 soldiers.
Shortly after, Bezos published a Medium post titled "No thank you, Mr. Pecker" that accused AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer, of trying to extort him over naked photos.
She comes across her first case of Season 2 in a hair salon, where she suspects her obnoxious stylist of teasing dark secrets out of his clients to extort them.
They say government jobs have become a license to steal or extort, with wave after wave of officials across Crimea dismissed for corruption or incompetence, even more than under Ukraine.
How was he able to eventually (allegedly) extort nearly $1 million from five of these college students, much of it drained from their parents' savings, without anyone raising the alarm?
An earlier intelligence report had accused Mr. Choi of using his ties with Ms. Park to extort money from businesses, a charge echoed in the current allegations against his daughter.
PWNED: Scammers are capitalizing on a spate of reports about hacked Internet-connected cameras to extort victims by claiming they have illicit recordings of them, Kate Fazzini at CNBC reports.
"I can easily imagine situations in which these sorts of voice-mimicry technologies are used to sow confusion, extort people and make fraud and scams far more precise," he said.
While there, a former friend allegedly recorded a blackout drunk Hart having sex and later tried to extort him, though the majority of charges brought against him have been dropped.
In 1985, Mr. Scarfo assigned a hit man, Nicholas Caramandi, to extort $1 million from Willard Rouse III, a developer who was seeking to build on the Delaware River waterfront.
NEW YORK — Michael Avenatti, a lawyer who gained fame by representing a porn star in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was convicted Friday of trying to extort sportswear giant Nike.
Lawyer Michael Avenatti was more than $15 million in debt when he tried to extort as much as $25 million from Nike, prosecutors alleged in court papers filed late Tuesday.
This week, the lawyer Michael Avenatti was charged with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike in exchange for concealing information he had about illicit payments to recruits.
"Revenge porn" refers to the sharing of sexually explicit images on the internet, without the consent of the people depicted in the pictures, in order to extort or humiliate them.
Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye vehemently rejected accusations Sunday that she conspired with a longtime friend to extort money and favors from companies, accusing her opponents of framing her.
Park has now lost presidential immunity, just days after special prosecutors recommended she'd be indicted as a bribery suspect, alleging she helped an unelected confidant to extort money from big business.
ZB: So the "legitimate" purpose of shell companies and tax havens is minimizing your own wealth, to hide from a powerful state that you might have resources it wants to extort?
He is one of 41 soccer officials charged with a scheme to extort over $200 million in bribes over 24 years for the media and marketing rights of World Cup tournaments.
FCI Dublin previously housed Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 0003, and Autumn Jackson, who was convicted of trying to extort Bill Cosby for $40 million.
Kelly Dodd is feeling thankful that things between her and celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti didn't work out after he was arrested for allegedly trying to extort over $20 million from Nike.
He would sometimes "tout his SEA affiliation," according to the FBI, including one instance where just the threat of being targeted by the hacking group was enough to extort one company.
A representative for Rubin and Schnur insisted that the allegations were "100 percent untrue" and said the lawsuit was full of "lies intended to extort Mr. Rubin," the Daily News said.
The front is responsible for carrying out attacks against mining infrastructure, in part to alert authorities to their presence, and in part to extort protection money, known as vacunas or vaccines.
Finally, the president's plan calls for cracking down on foreign governments that use their single-payer government monopolies to extort below-market payments to American drug manufacturers (and ultimately, American citizens).
Parliament impeached her in December, following revelations that she had divulged state secrets to a friend, let her meddle in policy and colluded with her to extort bribes from big companies.
NOC said he had tried to extort a contract, a commom complaint in Libya where many see the oil firm as entity to go for demands rather then the weak state.
There were other key differences: Jurors saw a new defense witness, who testified that Ms. Constand had said it would be easy to use fabricated abuse claims to extort a celebrity.
LGBT people in Myanmar routinely face abuse, violence, intimidation and harassment from police officers who extort money and sexual favors from them in a country where homosexuality is banned, campaigners say.
In February 2014, the Senate passed a bill that would protect the recipients of bad-faith demand letters and allow them to sue trolls that try to extort money from them.
Trump used congressionally appropriated aid to Ukraine, as well as the promise of a White House visit, to try to extort Ukraine's president to announce investigations that would benefit Trump politically.
Mac users should also be on guard against the OS X/KeRanger-A ransomware and its variants, which can extort a high price in exchange for getting your computer's files back.
Although the law banning all forms of non-penile vaginal sex was rarely enforced in India, it was used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from gay people, activists say.
According to charges against Romar, unsealed in March, he worked with Firas Dardar — one of the FBI's Cyber Most Wanted, known online as "The Shadow" — to intimidate and extort his victims.
Celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos lashed out at CNN after the network dropped him as a contributor in the wake of allegations he joined attorney Michael Avenatti in attempting to extort Nike.
Bezos wrote in a Medium post in February that the magazine was guilty of attempting to extort him, and the company has faced legal scrutiny from federal prosecutors over the issue.
It was North who told the NRA board about LaPierre's $275,000 wardrobe expenditures, according to The Wall Street Journal, which then prompted LaPierre to accuse North of trying to extort him.
They were brazen, persistent and "ruthless" — and "willing to go to frightening lengths" to extort money, said Bruce Foucart, an assistant director at the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
The artist Ross Bleckner has accused a man who worked for him of attempting to extort him by threatening to portray their consensual sexual relationship as a case of sexual harassment.
Mr. Bleckner called that "absurd" and is suing Mr. Gilman, accusing him of attempting to extort $2 million by threatening to portray their consensual relationship as a case of sexual harassment.
One of them, David Schnare, has been accused by his former allies of botching the group's tax-exempt status and of attempting to extort a quarter-million dollars from its coffers.
The administration sees the moral horror and basic decency of the American people as weakness it can exploit to extort concessions to its unpopular, hard-right agenda of ethnocultural population control.
A devastating and detailed New York Times report chronicles President Trump's three-month obsession with blocking Ukraine military aid to extort an announcement of an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.
These devices are not only vulnerable to the government, but to cybercriminals who want access to your devices in order to steal your identity, install ransomware, or extort money from you.
"North Korea has a compelling need to do these things, to be able to bully and extort South Korea, " said Sung-Yoon Lee, professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Children's information should never be used to extort money, and no child should have to fear that sensitive data about them — whether special education, disciplinary, or their grades — could be publicized.
In 2017, Hart shared a video on Instagram claiming someone was trying to extort him over a sexually suggestive video involving him and Sabbag in a hotel room in Las Vegas.
It centers on Choi Soon-sil, a close friend of Ms. Park for decades, who has been arrested on charges of leveraging her influence to extort millions of dollars from businesses.
And if they were to do so, they could use these Jewish areas to extort unreasonable concessions from Israel, for which these now "illegally occupied" areas are sacred and non-negotiable.
"Americans will understand Donald Trump trying to extort a foreign leader for help in the election more than they're likely to understand the esoteric aspects of obstruction of justice," Himes said.
Yet through legal loopholes, patent assertion entities — companies that own patents but never use them to make anything, better known as "patent trolls" — increasingly use patents as weapons to extort businesses.
Back then, inmates would post personal ads in gay magazines, strike up a sexy snail-mail correspondence with men who responded, and then extort the ones who admitted they were closeted.
FCI Dublin previously housed Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, and Autumn Jackson, who was convicted of trying to extort Bill Cosby for $40 million.
Trump was allegedly using his office to extort a foreign leader to help benefit his reelection campaign, a move that smacked of the Richard Nixon era for many in the party.
Users have reported being blackmailed or harassed online by people who join the app in order to extort money by threatening to out them to their family or their place of work.
The hacker said he tried to alert Ticketfly of the vulnerabilty—while also attempting to extort one bitcoin out of the company for "protection"—but the company didn't take the warning seriously.
"Efforts to use governmental power to pressure or even extort companies to adjust their operations to support parochial partisan positions would be an abuse of power and must be resisted," he said.
They tried to extort her, telling her she was going to die, that they'd do something to her family… they offered her up to $1.5 million to go and vote against me.
Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer made perhaps the most brazen call for anti-Semitic harassment last Friday, falsely claiming that Jewish organizations in Montana were attempting to extort the Spencer family.
In short ... Future's calling her a fraud because "the petitioner is lying about financial matters at the onset of case which is solely based on her attempt to extort money from" Future.
The indictment alleges that two lawyers — Paul R. Hansmeier and John L. Steele — used the copyright system to extort roughly $6 million out of porn pirates over the course of three years.
Meehan, a criminal, wooed multiple women in order to extort their fortune, and often posed as a doctor in order to make himself seem like not such a dirty, no-good dude.
Kevin Barron, a lawyer for Ross, urged jurors to look past "emotional evidence" and consider whether his client intended to extort anyone or was just part of a protest that turned ugly.
The man who allegedly tried to extort Kevin Hart by threatening to release a sex tape last year has been charged and is facing a maximum sentence of four years in jail.
They have been known to extort money from drivers without verifying whether the cows they carry are being sent to slaughter or, in the case of meat, whether it is indeed beef.
Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap is alleging that its current director of global security tried to extort the company for "millions of dollars" by threatening to file frivolous lawsuits against it.
Drake is suing a woman who claimed he got her pregnant and sexually assaulted her, alleging that she made the whole thing up in order to extort millions of dollars from him.
Ultimately they both discovered that neither were speaking to one another, but to a Canadian woman Shelly Chartier, who orchestrated the scheme in an effort to extort money from the basketball star.
Bertagna says his department is raising awareness about the Nunez case because they have seen three similar cases — of a person allegedly faking their kidnapping to extort money — in the past month.
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in India routinely extort female transgender sex workers, which pressures them to earn more by engaging in unsafe sex that increases the risk of disease, researchers say.
Violent criminal gangs have for years used fuel theft as a way to supplement their income, bleeding money from state coffers and driving bloodshed as they fight rivals and extort oil workers.
WASHINGTON — Congress has spent more than a month talking to more than a dozen witnesses to find out whether President Trump used taxpayer dollars to extort Ukraine into investigating his political rivals.
The crux of their argument: That Trump sought to extort Ukraine's leaders into publicly announcing investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 election by withholding congressionally approved military aid from the country.
Apple on Tuesday had taken legal action against Acacia Research Corp and Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc, accusing them of colluding with Nokia to extract and extort exorbitant revenues unfairly from Apple.
Derek's aim is to extort money from the elderly — much to the distress of his far younger and more ethical girlfriend, Enid (Mona Goodwin), who insists upon truth amid the intensifying lies.
Doe sued the hip-hop designer for sexual assault in late 2017, and he countersued in August 2018 claiming she was a liar and trying to extort him for a big payday.
Drake is coming out on top in his lawsuit against the woman he says falsely claimed he got her pregnant, accused him of rape and tried to extort him ... TMZ has learned.
He was also convicted of trying to extort a children's hospital CEO and a racetrack executive for campaign contributions in exchange for policy changes, and of making false statements to the FBI.
Then Ms. Spencer reversed course, and published a blog post on Medium, charging that Ms. Gersh had tried to threaten and extort her to sell the building and break with her son.
Cartels extort indigenous men to cross their shipments; authorities recruit indigenous agents to go undercover; in Tabatinga and Leticia, urbanized, detribalized Indians wander alleyways by night, scrounging up liquor or cocoa paste.
Other Project Veritas employees on the emails include Joe Halderman, an award-winning former television producer who in 2010 pleaded guilty to trying to extort $2 million from the comedian David Letterman.
The Amazon frontier has become a South American Wild West where land barons feud over property, extort judges and politicians with threats of violence, and abuse workers in conditions akin to slavery.
Kim Myong Gil's caustic statement is an example of North Korea's negotiating strategy of employing threats and provocations in order to extort political and economic concessions from the U.S. and its allies.
Since then, federal prosecutors in New York and California have charged Avenatti with a spate of financial crimes, including allegations of fraud, embezzlement and trying to extort Nike for millions of dollars.
"Today, it was made clear that we will not allow any business — big or small — to extort New Yorkers in order to advance its own interests," Mr. Cuomo said in his statement.
He'd run a fraudulent university, a dubious charity and bragged of cheating on prior wives; no surprise that he directed a foreign policy obsessed with a scheme to extort a fragile ally.
We believe the status quo, in which our schools profit from fossil fuel extraction and extort communities on the front lines of the climate emergency, merits rising above an antiquated athletic rivalry.
The guy Kevin Hart believes tried to extort him in the sex tape scandal ... is 2 more steps closer to getting off scot-free in the case after a new court order.
The original indictments and affidavits portrayed Campbell as a "victim" who became a confidential witness after the Russians tried to "extort" him in summer 2900 into a kickback scheme, court records show.
But critics say that gauzy success tale belies the reality of a company that now wields its enormous market power to bully, extort, and sometimes even destroy rivals and business partners alike.
The formerly vocal critic of the president is charged in New York with attempting to extort Nike as well as an unrelated accusation that he stole $85033,000 from Daniels while representing her.
One is the evidence that President Donald Trump abused his powers of office to extort a foreign country, Ukraine, into launching an investigation into his political rival, former vice president Joe Biden.
For years, hackers tried to extort money from companies by taking their websites offline with floods of internet traffic — often during prime holiday shopping — and not letting up until their victims paid.
Several high-profile college basketball programs likely are keeping a close eye on the next moves from lawyer Michael Avenatti, charged Monday with trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike.
The militias torture, extort and otherwise abuse migrants for ransoms in detention centers under the nose of the U.N., often in compounds that receive millions in European money, the AP investigation showed.
According to the prosecutor's document, police investigators found that Li had "threatened" to expose his department head's "illegal business activities" to government auditors and inspectors and used that to extort the company.
"The crimes and the offenses that have been detailed in this testimony are absolutely damning," Murphy told host Jake Tapper, adding that it was "absolutely clear" Trump attempted to "extort" Ukraine's president.
The smugglers, or polleros, are known to kill or strand migrants who falter in their payments, and to extort those who have families that can mortgage homes or drum up more money.
Sacramento Kings star Ty Lawson says he's got something in common with Colin Powell and the DNC -- HE'S BEEN HACKED ... and Lawson claims the cyber thieves are now trying to extort him.
The Cartel is believed to allow polleros (people smugglers) or coyotes and bajadores—gunmen who assault the polleros in order to seize their migrants and extort their families—to operate with impunity.
WOMAN PUNCHED BY COP ON BEACH 'REFUSED TO COMPLY': NEW JERSEY MAYOR SAYS "The victim reported receiving numerous threatening messages from an unknown person attempting to extort her for nude photographs," authorities said.
Now, American prosecutors say they know who did it: a hacker who used to work for the Iranian military and tried to extort $6 million worth of bitcoin from HBO in the process.
The firm also argues that the attacks do not seem to have been financially or politically motivated — given the broad scope of the targets, and the lack of any attempts to extort money.
For them, this stunt was just another attempt to distract from the continuing stream of witnesses testifying to the President's shameless attempts to extort from Ukraine an investigation into his most-feared rival.
The narcos in the city, she explains, have in recent years converted into a classic mafia-type presence, all too eager to extort fees for "protection services" from the most successful street vendors.
Bezos' full Medium post contains emails and texts that were sent to his team by AMI's lawyers, which he says he's making public to show how the company has tried to extort him.
Last year, Hart apologized to his pregnant wife, Eniko Parrish, and his two children in a social media video, revealing that someone was allegedly trying to extort him for a sexually suggestive video.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - People smugglers are using Facebook to broadcast the abuse and torture of migrants in order to extort ransom money from their families, the U.N. migration agency said on Friday.
"The fundamental thing is you cannot be Secretary of State of the United States of America and use that position to extort or seek contributions to your private foundation," the Republican senator said.
He also demanded that Nike hire him — yes, the guy literally trying to extort them — to conduct an "internal investigation" of the company, for which he would be paid more than $9 million.
To refresh your memory almost three years after the indictments were first made, Hansmeier and another lawyer, John L. Steele, were accused of masterminding a plan to extort "settlement fees" from their victims.
The DA's office also prepared a chart with the breakdown of the alleged extortion timeline in NY. Michael Avenatti has been arrested and charged with trying to extort $20 million out of Nike.
I didn't want to contact the "seller" directly, because I felt that if he thought the "real" owner of the site was aware of the sale, he would try to extort more money.
Human rights advocates have said they were troubled by a broadly worded clause of the law that prohibits use of the telecoms network to, "extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, inappropriately influence or intimidate".
In March, Avenatti was accused of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to expose what he called its improper payments to recruits for college basketball teams it sponsored.
In 2006, a court in California sentenced Pavlo Lazarenko, Ukraine's prime minister in 1996-97, to nine years in prison for misusing his post to extort tens of millions of dollars from Ukrainians.
But the rewards for creating those treatments come disproportionately from American patients and taxpayers because foreign governments use the threat of barring access to the market to extort lower prices from drug makers.
"It sets a terrible precedent and will encourage anybody who can muster a militia to shut down a pipeline, an oilfield, or a port, to see what they can extort," the letter said.
In November U.S. officials also made a public show of charging an Iranian hacker with stealing confidential data from HBO and attempting to extort the company for millions of dollars over the summer.
Fiji filed a counter lawsuit Friday against model Kelleth Cuthbert -- real name Kelly Steinbach -- saying she's "bitten the hand that feeds her" and attempted to extort the company for half a million dollars.
Many have endured years-long journeys that took them across the Sahara desert to Libya, where often they fall into the hands of criminal groups who detain, extort, abuse, buy and sell them.
CAVALLY FOREST, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Ivorian conservation agents are using the threat of eviction and prosecution to extort money from cocoa growers farming illegally in protected forest reserves, victims and rights groups say.
He added the company had sued Mr. Zarattini because he and others had tried to extort Nxivm by asking for money in exchange for not revealing information, an assertion Mr. Zarattini has denied.
The Taliban methodically extort money — they say it is taxation — from businesses in the city center, including those near the government headquarters, and an increasing number of insurgents live openly in the city.
Cummings said she posted the picture herself in order to get ahead of people attempting to extort her using a screenshot that she had accidentally uploaded to Instagram and then deleted months previously.
Knowing she was a "vulnerable person," Ronaldo's team threatened to portray her as having consented to sex and then making a false claim so she could extort Ronaldo for money, the lawsuit claims.
Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and terrorism will examine the threat of ransomware, a burgeoning form of malware that encrypts victims' computers in order to extort money.
Where has their outrage been over President Trump's attempt to extort the struggling nation of Ukraine, his cozying up to the world's worst dictators, his stroking of white nationalists, and on and on.
While the first involved the denial of an extramarital affair, Trump's alleged crime involves an attempt to extort the head of a foreign country in order to gain political dirt on a rival.
In a series of reports, CNN has been highlighting the plight of migrants in Libya who have been abducted and tortured to extort a payment for their release, and even sold as slaves.
Schnatter accused Laundry Service of trying to extort the pizza chain in an interview with a Louisville, Kentucky, TV station Friday and again in a letter to the board of directors on Saturday.
In a bizarre twist, he also said that Laundry Service, the PR agency hired for the training, tried to extort $1.483 million from the company to keep news of the May call quiet.
This issue will feature prominently in coalition negotiations, as parties will seek to extort Netanyahu for ministries, policies and portfolios -- in return for keeping him in power when his legal troubles heat up.
House Democrats are building a case that President Donald Trump attempted to extort a foreign leader, withholding desperately needed military assistance to Ukraine unless the country's president announced investigations into Trump's political rivals.
Just kidding, it was a brutal dystopia and the Aleck in question teamed up with Melinda, a prostitute who was of course also his wife, to rob and extort well-to-do patsies.
I've had drivers make all sorts of inappropriate comments and tape my calls when I've used my cell phone, even drivers who don't speak Arabic, thinking maybe they could blackmail or extort me.
In an attempt to extort money from NIke, Avenatti threatened to hold a press conference on the eve of Nike's quarterly earnings call and announce allegations of misconduct by Nike employees, prosecutors said.
But rather than simply selling the data at a low price for a quick payday, this hacker is advertising it to extort the unnamed companies into paying money to protect their patients' details.
He also spoke of how Maduro's forces tried to extort a fellow politician suffering from cancer, how journalists are being killed over tweets, and what he feels must happen to end Venezuela's social crisis.
"Rob and Kylie are compelled to seek legal recourse against Chyna for enduring several months of injuries in Chyna's deliberate attempt to extort the Kardashian family for her own monetary gains," the complaint states.
The threat of punishment was held over the head of every gay person living in India, by anyone who might wish to harass or extort them, and used to drive their civic organisations underground.
Some researchers have suggested that unlike other types of ransomware, which are used to extort money, NotPetya's purpose was to simply sow chaos by encrypting files and giving victims no method for unlocking them.
In September, Hart spoke about the incident and apologized to his then-8-months pregnant wife as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
The evidence is simply undeniable that patent trolls are taking advantage of a court with overly friendly rules in order to extort money, and there's no reason to allow this to continue any longer.
" In response, Dr. Luke and his lawyers filed a lawsuit against Kesha, claiming her allegations were defamation and an "attempt to extort Gottwald into releasing Kesha from her exclusive recording agreement with Dr. Luke.
Enembe referred to a 2015 scandal linked to Grasberg in which Indonesia's former parliament speaker was accused of attempting to extort shares worth $1.8 billion from Freeport, as part of the compulsory majority divestment.
"Some foreign criminals have taken refuge in the form of this gambling to cheat and extort money from victims, domestic and abroad, which affect the security, public order and social order," the directive said.
A Democratic congressman hit back with this:  It is true that key witnesses to the President's efforts to extort Ukraine - Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton - were blocked from testifying by the White House.
Those two could blow apart one of the Republicans' loudest defenses of the president: that no one claiming Trump tried to extort Ukraine to do his political bidding actually heard the president do so.
But Grupos Beta workers—who stand out against the wilderness in neon orange t-shirts—have been known to extort cash from migrants and report them to immigration officials who detain and deport them.
According to Cohen, Stormy Daniels within days of a national election allegedly was attempting to extort money from candidate Trump, threatening to take her allegations public unless she was paid in excess of $100,000.
The investigation of accusations that Park colluded with a friend to extort money from major conglomerates unearthed details of various cosmetic and medical treatments that she got without the supervision of her official doctors.
Cavendish said the charity feared gangs and others in home countries and the United States might try to extort the migrants or their families if it were known they were in the United States.
"Shahs of Sunset" star Shervin Roohparvar is suing a woman he claims is trying to extort him for hundreds of thousands of dollars after alleging he tried to slip her a date rape drug.
In short, North was accused of attempting to extort NRA CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre in order to get him to leave the organization, using accusations of sexual harassment and financial impropriety.
"A lot of the time what prisoners come face to face with is sheer cruelty," she said, and it appears that in some cases, sexual violence has been used to extort money and property.
YouTube is going after an alleged copyright troll using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) provisions, alleging that Christopher Brady used false copyright strikes to extort YouTube creators, harming the company in the process.
But after recording calls between Mr. Hastert and Individual A, the investigators concluded that the man was not trying to extort Mr. Hastert and that the claims of abuse by Individual A were true.
There is no strategy of inducement or coercion that can persuade Pyongyang to relinquish an arsenal that is both its best defense against coercion and its best way to extort benefits from the West.
They have a duty to explain not just why Trump betrayed America when he sought to extort election help from Ukraine, but how we know that he'll nearly certainly try the same thing again.
At least 0003 African migrants and refugees drowned off Yemen this week after their overcrowded vessel capsized during a clash with smugglers trying to extort them for more money, the United Nations said Friday.
Stephen Belafonte gave the LAPD an audiotape in which you hear a woman -- whom he says is his baby mama -- try and extort him for a million bucks, and TMZ has obtained the audio.
Its most powerful argument: That the court erroneously suppressed information about federal agents investigating the Silk Road who used their positions to steal bitcoins from the site and even attempted to extort money from Ulbricht.
Of course, when Bezos said in a blog post on Thursday that the National Enquirer's parent company was trying to extort him by threatening to publish the selfies, his announcement was momentous for many reasons.
The lawyer, who rose to prominence representing adult film star Stormy Daniels, is accused of conspiring to extort $20 million from Nike by threatening to use his fame to inflict harm on the company's image.
Avenatti was arrested in March on charges of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to expose what he called its improper payments to recruits for college basketball teams it sponsored.
Investigators claim he tried to extort a $2m bribe from Rosneft, the state oil company, in exchange for approving its purchase last month of the government's controlling stake in Bashneft, a mid-sized oil producer.
Hart later came clean about the incident and apologized to his 8-months pregnant wife Eniko Parrish as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
But on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that LaPierre told the NRA's board that he had refused a demand by North to step down and accused the NRA president of trying to extort him.
And that's just for the Southern California case; Avenatti was also arrested in New York last month for a separate federal investigation into allegations that he attempted to extort Nike for more than $20 million.
In a second court hearing this week, Uber employees testified that a disgruntled former colleague, Richard Jacobs, attempted to extort money from the company when he sensed he was on the verge of getting fired.
An Ecuadorean court in November had authorized the extradition of wood pellet salesman Paul Ceglia, who faced U.S. charges of mail fraud and wire fraud over allegations he forged documents to extort Facebook and Zuckerberg.
An Alabama rattlesnake venom dealer must face a lawsuit by anti-venom maker BTG International Inc accusing him of abusing a patent review process to extort money from the company, a federal judge has ruled.
If a country as small and politically insignificant as Libya can extort four billion dollars a year from the European Union, what will a country like Turkey do when the process of EU talks stalls?
NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled a new fraud charge against lawyer Michael Avenatti, accusing him of lying to a client as part of his alleged effort to extort Nike Inc.
North American leagues do not have a promotion-relegation system, allowing oligarch owners, who extort taxpayer money to build sports palaces and improve surrounding infrastructure, to preserve the status quo of a healthy revenue stream.
The question of whether the president of the United States sought to extort a foreign government to obtain dirt on a political opponent is plainly vital — irrespective of whether it moves the polls or not.
He says Boies cooked them up as part of a larger plot to take Dershowitz down and extort money from Leslie Wexner, the billionaire owner of Victoria's Secret who was close to Epstein for decades.
The judge said nothing would make him happier than to keep the names out of a trial pertaining to allegations that Avenatti tried to extort between $15 million and $25 million from apparel giant Nike.
Ms. Park has indeed been corrupt and incompetent, letting her friend Choi Soon-sil use the government to extort $69 million from businesses for personal gains, but she also did so much more than that.
On Monday, CNN reported that about a week before the call took place, Trump had ordered a hold on nearly $400 million in economic and military aid, possibly to extort Zelensky into investigating Biden's son.
"That phone call very clearly indicates an effort to not only pressure but in effect extort the president of Ukraine over much necessary military assistance that had already been passed by the Congress," Clinton said.
LOCRI, Italy (Reuters) - This seaside town in Italy's deep south has long been a hotbed for the Calabrian mafia, which uses threats and violence to extort virtually every businessman, from the pizzerias to the fishmongers.
During the campaign, Trump supporter Jeff Sessions, then an Alabama senator and now the attorney general, suggested that Clinton used her high position as secretary of state to "extort" international governments for her family's foundation.
In the suit, she says she never threatened Trump over his career or his family -- and no one involved in the payments Trump allegedly made to McDougal ever accused her of trying to extort Trump.
Democrats have telegraphed that they plan to zero in on allegations that Trump tried to extort the Ukrainians by withholding vital military aide as well as a White House meeting with the newly elected president.
"For now, it seems the focus is exactly where it needs to be — on Donald Trump and his accomplices trying to extort Ukraine, a U.S. ally defending itself from Russia's ongoing military and hybrid warfare."
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Friday night that he felt "snookered" after learning that lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted on charges of trying to extort athletic clothing company Nike for millions of dollars.
Activist hedge fund Elliott said the letter "read as a threat to intimidate or extort a senior officer of Elliott Management based on completely false insinuations" and that it immediately informed Arconic's board of the letter.
"We must stand up against big pharma and insurance companies who extort those who are sick, who put their profits above the health and well-being of our people," she said when she announced her candidacy.
Asaib is widely believed to have used its battlefield gains against ISIS to expand its interests, commandeering certain sectors of the economy and running mafia-like gangs who levy unofficial taxes, smuggle goods and extort businesses.
But the drug war also gives drug trafficking groups enormous profits — through the black market of prohibited drugs — allowing them to bribe, extort, blackmail, and finance a war against any government entity that poses a threat.
Adding a PIN will make your mobile account more secure in the first place, and reduce the likelihood of a hacker being able to steal your Instagram account or extort you to regain access to it.
"Trump claims that he is seeking fairness and reciprocity in the U.S.' economic relationship with China but so far he has sought to extort gains from China using the economic advantages the U.S. has," it said.
Their Republican colleagues have now said that Trump abused his powers as president to extort and shakedown the Ukrainians to dig up dirt on a political opponent by withholding military aid and a White House meeting.
"It is unfathomable to me that because of you proactively contacting an ex-boyfriend of mine to team up against me, he was arrested for trying to extort money from me," Farley alleged in her statement.
Choi and Park are currently being held at detention centers undergoing trials for extortion and abuse of power to extort millions of dollars from big companies and pressure them to donate to foundations controlled by Choi.
Now, instead, the prosecution of Paul Manafort, it represents yet the latest in another example of Team Mueller turning the screws on a one-time Trump ally in order to extort something, anything on President Trump.
Since being chased out the region, the Taliban have carried out revenge attacks against anti-militancy activists and attempted to extort money from business owners in a region where Pakistan has stationed more than 4,000 soldiers.
Consumer advocates warn that the use of private debt collectors will lead to confusion and could make it easier for scammers — who already extort money by pretending to be IRS agents — to steal even more money.
In the Sinaloan state capital of Culiacan, where many view Guzman as a latter-day Robin Hood, some residents fear his arrest and eventual extradition could open the door for other drug gangsters to extort locals.
The family festivities comes as Chyna faces a lawsuit from her ex Kardashian and 20-year-old Kylie Jenner, who claim Chyna abused Kardashian and attempted to "extort the Kardashian family for her own monetary gains."
In response, in the statement embedded below as well as in an interview with Stadium, Woodbury leveled a host of allegations again Petion, including that Petion attempted to extort school officials, all of which Petion denied.
Paying them, they say, runs a high risk that the hackers will continue to extort the same victims for more money after the initial payment or be incentivized to carry out similar attacks against other companies.
Prisoners complained that legal aid lawyers, at the trial court and appellate court levels, tried to extort money from the families of death-row prisoners, threatening not to turn up for hearings unless they were paid.
Al-Shabaab, al Qaeda's largest affiliate, "uses portions of southern and central Somalia to plot and direct terror attacks, steal humanitarian aid, extort local populace to fund its operations, and shelter radical terrorists," the statement continued.
In addition, she recently attempted to extort the Church by first demanding $500,000, followed by an additional $1 million, because the Church invoked its First Amendment right to respond to her false claims with the truth.
Many cybersecurity companies saw their stocks rally Wednesday as the "Petya" ransomware program immobilized more than 12,000 computers from companies around the world in order to extort money from their owners, according to numbers from Microsoft.
"Himes said the very language of the phrase can be confusing, when he thought it should be simple to communicate "that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody.
But a Trump White House distracted by impeachment hearings and accusations that it tried to extort Zelensky for dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden leaves a void that Russian President Vladimir Putin could take advantage of.
He would film himself having sex with the women, and then he and his accomplices would extort money and jewelry from the women by blackmailing them with the recordings, according to Farid Ghori, the provincial prosecutor.
Nike asked a judge to block Michael Avenatti from having five of its sports marketing officials testify at his upcoming criminal trial, calling their testimony irrelevant to whether the California lawyer tried to extort the company.
Mr. Simmons and his lawyers argue that the reports are false and stem from Mauro Oliveira, a man they accuse in the lawsuit of stalking and seeking to extort and blackmail Mr. Simmons over several years.
Allegations that Ms. Park helped Ms. Choi extort millions in bribes from Samsung and other companies are at the heart of the corruption scandal that led to the National Assembly's vote to impeach her last month.
Michael Avenatti, the attorney who rose to national prominence after representing a porn star who said she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual relationship with President Trump, was convicted of trying to extort Nike.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said this week that he would make the online gambling ban permanent after first announcing a halt in August, saying that the industry had been used by foreign criminals to extort money.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said this week that he would make the online gambling ban permanent after first announcing a halt in August, saying that the industry had been used by foreign criminals to extort money.
A federal grand jury on Wednesday charged two Iranian nationals for their involvement in an international hacking scheme in which they used a sophisticated malware to extort victims for a ransom, the Department of Justice announced.
Ms. Park's opponents organized huge candlelight rallies week after week, for months, forcing prosecutors to investigate allegations that Ms. Park conspired with her secretive confidante, Choi Soon-sil, to extort millions of dollars from big businesses.
The court unanimously upheld the National Assembly's vote in December to impeach her, on charges that included abusing her power to help a longtime confidante, Choi Soon-sil, extort tens of millions of dollars from businesses.
Halifax Police would not give exact dates, but said it's alleged Willis used his authority as a border services employee to sexually assault and extort the woman on more than one occasion in Dartmouth that year.
"The vessel is believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were attempting to take refugees and migrants to Djibouti, while also trying to extort more money from these refugees and migrants," the statement said.
Beijing accuses them of being part of an elaborate scheme in which fraudsters posed as law enforcement officials to extort money from residents in mainland China, despite their being acquitted by a Kenyan court of those charges.
"It is unfathomable to me that because of you proactively contacting an ex-boyfriend of mine to team up against me, he was arrested for trying to extort money from me," Farley alleged in her statement today.
In late 2015, the parliament's ethics committee launched a probe into allegations by a Freeport Indonesia executive that Novanto had tried to extort $1.8 billion worth of shares from the local unit of the U.S. mining company.
The government could not agree to a unilateral ceasefire because the NPA had taken advantage of the truce to extort businesses and citizens, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief General Eduardo Ano said in a statement.
NOC had said in a statement earlier on Thursday that the protesters were planning to "extort" Mellitah, the joint-venture between ENI and NOC that runs Wafa and other operations, for a "corrupt" contract, without giving details.
A court in Yaroslavl, 250 km (156 miles) northeast of Moscow, sentenced Yevgeny Urlashov to serve his term in a maximum security prison after finding him guilty of accepting a bribe and of trying to extort another.
In court, Uber's assistant general counsel Angela Padilla said that the company perceived that letter as an attempt to extort money from Uber (it eventually settled with Jacobs and his lawyer for a total of $7.5 million).
Avelar, 40, is a finalist for the 2017 Martin Ennals Award, an international prize for human rights activists, but said the gang members have already sought to extort some of the future prize money if she wins.
Mr. Santucci prosecuted Mr. Zaccaro on charges that he had joined the Queens borough president, Donald R. Manes, in trying to extort a bribe from a cable television company that had unsuccessfully sought a franchise in Queens.
The smelter and associated infrastructure were at the centre of scandal late last year that resulted in the resignation of parliament speaker Setya Novanto after he was accused of trying to extort shares from Freeport's local unit.
But when the officer, Joshua Mboizi, presented a school administrator with a letter giving them one week to close down, the owner accused him of using his power as a probation officer to extort them for money.
"Women often falsely accuse men of sexual attacks to extort money, to force marriage, to satisfy a childish desire for notoriety, or to attain personal revenge," read a 1970 argument in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
The "Intimate Privacy Protection Act" is an effort several years in the making to combat the rise in recent years of "revenge porn," images that are shared on the internet in order to extort or humiliate someone.
They also raise warnings that removing the rigid test and replacing it with an ambiguous and freewheeling framework could increase the leverage for so-called patent trolls who use the courts to try and extort unjustified settlements.
Consequently, immigration restrictionists in Congress and in the White House have been unwilling to strike a deal that offers Democrats anything of value — hence the need to try to extort the money from Democrats with the shutdown.
This may also provide a motivation for Cuomo to move against the odd electoral law that empowers small interest groups to use ballot lines to extort politicians in a way that doesn't exist in most other states.
Jackson is accused of trying to extort an undisclosed amount of money from Hart, in return for keeping the video secret ... a video showing Hart with a woman in his hotel room in Vegas apparently having sex.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti on Tuesday again proclaimed his innocence on charges he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike Inc, but in an interview with CBS, admitted he was concerned about doing prison time.
For three generations, members of the gangland dynasty have been imprisoned for crimes that have included shaking down construction sites, murdering a mob boss at a steakhouse and trying to extort the action-movie hero Steven Seagal.
In May, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Avenatti in two alleged schemes, charging him with fraud and aggravated identity theft involving Daniels and with attempting to extort more than $20 million from sportswear giant Nike.
Michael Avenatti does not want U.S. prosecutors to present evidence at his criminal trial this month that his alleged financial straits, including an inability to pay child support, gave the celebrity lawyer a motive to extort Nike.
"The vessel is believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were attempting to take refugees and migrants to Djibouti, while also trying to extort more money from these refugees and migrants," an IOM statement said.
"We will work to deny the Iranian regime – and especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – funding for its malign activities, and oppose IRGC activities that extort the wealth of the Iranian people," said a White House statement.
"Uber's deputy general counsel Angela Padilla testified that Jacobs and his attorney were attempting to extort the company and that Uber disclosed his letters to the US Attorney's Office to "take the air out of his extortionist balloon.
Details are slim right now, but it's likely that this is an extension of the recent lawsuits against Qualcomm in the US, which claim that Qualcomm has been using its position to extort undeservedly high patent licensing fees.
The North also mistakenly believes that its nascent nuclear abilities will deter the United States and South Korea from responding if North Korean forces carry out low-level military actions intended to extort food, fuel or other benefits.
Federal prosecutors in New York announced Monday that they will charge lawyer Michael Avenatti, who gained notoriety for his representation of Stormy Daniels and a discredited Brett Kavanaugh accuser, with an attempt to extort $20 million from Nike.
The feds have not yet reached any conclusions regarding whether AMI attempted to extort Bezos, CNN wrote, and by all signs any official investigation into just who obtained access to Bezos's private photos is in its preliminary stages.
The agreement did not address demands from Fuerabamba protesters that the community's three attorneys be released from jail, where a judge has ordered them to spend three years while they are investigated for allegedly trying to extort MMG.
Jerusalem (CNN)An 18-year old man accused of calling in hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States also tried to extort a US state senator, according to the prosecutor's office in Israel.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia said on Sunday it is banning online gambling, which helped propel a wave of Chinese investment in casinos in the country, saying that the industry had been used by foreign criminals to extort money.
The inquiry began with revelations in 2015 that high-ranking officials at track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, or I.A.A.F., had tried to extort athletes who had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer and self-described high-profile nemesis of U.S. President Donald Trump, faces a trial on charges he tried to extort Nike Inc and defrauded a youth basketball coach he represented.
Defense lawyers said that those measures were making it difficult for them to share paper documents with Avenatti in preparation for his upcoming trial for allegedly trying to extort more than $20 million from athletic apparel giant Nike.
Attorney Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan court Tuesday to attempting to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to publicize claims that it made improper payments to athletes, which Nike denies, AP reports.
Michael Avenatti, the brash lawyer best known for representing the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against President Trump, was convicted on Friday of trying to extort more than $20 million from the apparel giant Nike.
Now the 48-year-old celebrity lawyer faces an uncertain future, as he goes on trial on Monday on charges he tried to extort up to $25 million from Nike Inc and defrauded a basketball coach he represented.
Bezos has implied that AMI tried to extort him to please the Saudi government — which allegedly has links to AMI and is upset with Bezos-owned Washington Post's coverage of murdered columnist Jamal Khashoggi —or President Donald Trump.
It was institutional breakdown at nearly every level of government, which allowed corruption to become the norm, including among police officers who sometimes beat citizens and extort money from them just as brazenly as did the drug gangs.
"We felt that Halunen was trying to extort the company, and I wanted to take the air out of his extortionist balloon," Padilla testified, explaining the decision to turn over his letters to the US Attorney's Office in June.
The dismissal marked another setback for federal prosecutors in Boston after jurors in August in a related case acquitted four Teamsters union members of charges they tried to extort jobs from a production company filming "Top Chef" in 2014.
Taiwanese criminals "have been falsely presenting themselves as law enforcement officers to extort money from people on the Chinese mainland through telephone calls", China's Ministry of Public Security said in April when suspects were deported from Kenya to China.
Mariah Carey's former personal assistant is hitting back against allegations that she tried to extort the singer by claiming in a lawsuit that she was subjected to verbal and physical abuse, including being peed on, while on the job.
"The fundamental thing is you can not be Secretary of State of the United States of America and use that position to extort or seek contributions to your private foundation," he told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" Tuesday.
WATCH: Kevin Hart Apologizes to His Wife and Kids in Emotional Video After Alleged Extortion In December, Hart apologized to Parrish as he emotionally revealed that someone was using the tapes and images to allegedly extort money from him.
Boiteux, who the Los Angeles Times says describes himself as a sorcerer, then used those videos to extort the victims out of money with the threat that if they did not, he would share the video or images publicly.
The trial of four Teamsters union members accused of trying to extort the production company behind reality television show "Top Chef" for unwanted jobs is nearing its end, after both the prosecution and defense rested their cases on Tuesday.
The decision marked another setback for federal prosecutors in Boston after jurors in August in a related case acquitted four Teamsters union members of charges they tried to extort jobs from a production company filming "Top Chef" in 2014.
Protesters, mostly indigenous Quechua speakers, also want the leader of the local Fuerabamba community and its three lawyers to be freed from jail, where they have been held for the past week on accusations they tried to extort MMG.
LOS ANGELES, March 26 (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti on Tuesday again proclaimed his innocence on charges he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike Inc, but in an interview with CBS, admitted he was concerned about doing prison time.
On Monday, Geragos was identified as a co-conspirator of lawyer Michael Avenatti in an alleged scheme by Avenatti to extort up to $25 million from athletic shoe giant Nike by threatening to release damaging information about that company.
Elliott, run by activist investor Paul Singer, said the letter "read as a threat to intimidate or extort a senior officer of Elliott Management based on completely false insinuations " and that it immediately informed Arconic's board of the letter.
Facebook is faced with yet another content-related scandal, after The Times newspaper reported that people traffickers and slave traders are using its platform to broadcast videos of migrants being tortured to try to extort money from their families.
Only willful resistance to fact can obscure the reality that Trump, with the help of his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and various others, tried to extort a vulnerable ally in order to gain an advantage in the 2020 election campaign.
LaPierre claimed North had tried to extort him into resigning under threat of releasing information about alleged financial improprieties within the organization as well as allegations that LaPierre charged thousands of dollars in wardrobe purchases to his expense account.
" AMI is embroiled in controversy this week after being accused of attempting to extort Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos after obtaining revealing photos and texts of him, including one referred to in an email exchange as a "d*ck pick.
Drug cartels looking to launder money and diversify their operations control or extort some of the production and packing of certain export crops from Mexico (the largest exporter of produce to the United States), including avocados, mangoes and limes.
Migrants are also vulnerable to so-called rip crews, who kidnap them from the stash house of a rival group of smugglers and extort them or their families for money, federal court documents and Homeland Security Investigations records show.
The comedian on Monday told her social media followers that there have been recent attempts to extort her over an image she accidentally and briefly posted to Instagram earlier this year in which part of her breast was visible.
They said Trump attempted to "extort" Ukraine's government to announce a corruption investigation he imagined would hurt former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
I was able to hire a patent attorney and ultimately fight back, but too many businesses have been forced to cut their losses, lay off workers and close their doors, leaving the trolls free to extort their next victim.
The second man, Mullah Mustafa, who serves as a local facilitator of the Taliban and played a major role in the recent offensive, is known for setting up checkpoints on the main highway to extort travelers, security officials say.
In making their case, federal prosecutors in Manhattan specifically accused Mr. Avenatti of trying to extort money from Nike in exchange for evidence he said he had of misconduct by company employees in the recruitment of college basketball players.
Duterte said he had "walked the extra mile" to bring peace by resuming talks and freeing rebel leaders but his efforts were never reciprocated by the communists who took advantage of the talks to recruit fighters and extort money.
After months of investigation, this year the authorities arrested six people, accusing them of using their recruiting and transportation agencies to extort wages from women so poor and desperate they dared not speak up and worked under extreme conditions.
Despite pressure from human rights bodies and Western diplomats, the government of Aung San Suu Kyi has retained a broadly worded law that prohibits use of the telecoms network to "extort, threaten, obstruct, defame, disturb, inappropriately influence or intimidate".
He also attempted to head off GOP arguments that the existence of a quid pro quo was irrelevant because the allegations that Trump looked to extort Ukraine ultimately did not pan out because the withheld aid was eventually released.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed charges accusing him of trying to extort millions of dollars from the apparel giant in exchange for evidence he said he had of misconduct by company employees in the recruitment of college basketball players.
The placid narrative took another turn in February, when Bezos made headlines with a blog post on Medium saying the publishers of the National Enquirer tried to extort him by threatening to publish explicit selfies between him and Sanchez.
Such facilities are common in UP, although they do not advertise their whereabouts for fear of antagonising "cow vigilantes", Hindu militants who harass and extort in the name of protecting cows, which a majority of Indians hold to be sacred.
Prosecutors have confirmed that they notified Park's lawyer that she needs to appear at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on March 21 to be interviewed as a suspect over allegations she colluded with Choi to extort money from Samsung.
The Top Chef trial concluded ahead of another case in which two of Boston mayor Marty Walsh's aides are also charged with conspiracy to extort under the Hobbs Act for allegedly strong-arming a music festival into hiring union labor.
In February, Bezos released a remarkable post on Medium, saying that Enquirer and its parent company, AMI, had attempted to extort and blackmail him with images that he had texted to a woman with which he was having an affair.
We've already seen the downside of expansive copyright rules online, with automated systems accidentally flagging white noise or birdsong as infringement, viral videos getting pulled offline for using audio clips without permission, and scammers using copyright strikes to extort YouTubers.
Foreign adversaries, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, are also particularly interested in the House's investigation into President Donald Trump's alleged attempt to extort an investigation from Ukraine by withholding military aid needed to repel a Russian invasion into their territory.
This whole episode seems to have kicked off with a report from The Hollywood Reporter, that Iger told ABC employees at a town hall in New York that someone was purporting to be a hacker and attempting to extort the company.
Avenatti was arrested in March and charged by prosecutors in Manhattan with trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike Inc by threatening to expose what he called its improper payments to recruits for college basketball teams it sponsored.
In an interview on Thursday, Faiz ur-Rehman, a Pashtun trader in the city, spoke of his gratitude after a Taliban commander who used to extort $950 in protection money from him every month was killed in a security raid.
Like The Trolls, the most recent episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, from creators Mike Judge and Alec Berg, focused entirely on patent trolls, and the ways they extort both big companies and small startups using broad ownership of a vague idea.
Most of the families affected by Trump's policy are, like them, from Central America, where gangs frequently extort small businesses, forcibly recruit preteen kids, and burn houses down as a form of punishment for those who don't comply with their orders.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal prosecutor on Thursday urged jurors in Boston to convict four Teamsters union members charged with trying in 2014 to extort jobs from a production company filming "Top Chef" through tactics that included threatening host Padma Lakshmi.
BEIRUT/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Lebanese security official said on Tuesday the Lebanese banking sector had been targeted by an Iraq-based network that tried to extort money from Lebanese banks and was uncovered in a joint operation with Iraqi authorities.
Malware 'acts as a worm' This particular malware emerged in February and has one purpose: "to extort money in return for releasing the data it has encrypted," said Alan Woodward, a visiting professor of computing at the University of Surrey.
The lawyer, Joseph Power, told CNBC about his own run-in with Avenatti after federal prosecutors accused Avenatti on Monday of embezzling from a client, defrauding a bank and trying to extort sneaker giant Nike for up to $25 million.
But in an interview with James Andrew Miller of the Hollywood Reporter released this morning, Skipper claims that his reason for leaving—previously stated ambiguously as a "substance addiction"—was related to someone trying to extort him for his cocaine use.
" PEOPLE obtained a statement Luke's attorney, Christine Lepera, provided to the trade publication, saying, "Any claim of duress in connection with that testimony is simply absurd … The vicious smear campaign to extort Luke and damage him and his family is inexcusable.
Choi is being held in detention and is on trial for extortion, abuse of power and attempted fraud to extort millions of dollars from big companies, including Samsung Electronics in hand with impeached ex-leader Park, her long-time friend.
In a now frequently discussed, ongoing YouTube scandal first addressed in videos like Hank Green's on February 1, YouTubers have contended that the platform's copyright claim feature is being used to abuse and extort ad money from creators large and small.
The commencement of public impeachment hearings has already yielded all manner of questions, details—and inane Republican theatrics—centered on the revelation that President Donald Trump tried to extort Ukraine into launching an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyer Michael Avenatti asked a federal judge to dismiss an indictment accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc, saying he was targeted in a "vindictive and selective prosecution" because of his feud with U.S. President Donald Trump.
A club looking to join MLS has a better chance of acceptance if it shows it can probably extort a cushy stadium subsidy from its hometown than if it spends years developing sustained footballing success or a passionate fan base.
But according to testimony at the trial and to his own confession to the police and prosecutors, Mr. Felix, a carpenter who did construction work for Mr. Stark, participated in a plot to abduct the developer and extort money from him.
The company is in the process of "healing and fixing," Chairman Leonard Riggio said on a post-earnings call with analysts, adding that the former CEO's lawsuit was "nothing but a smokescreen in an attempt to extort money from the company".
Because current North Korean strategy absolutely requires nuclear weapons to extort China and South Korea for revenue, to create a defensive shield against the hostile Americans, and to provoke South Korea into giving up and agreeing to unification on Kim's terms.
In a series of undercover videos filmed over the last year, Britain's Channel 4 News caught executives at Cambridge Analytica appear to say they could extort politicians, send women to entrap them, and help proliferate propaganda to help their clients.
"If anything, Force's attempts to sell information to 'DPR' or otherwise extort him were 'inculpatory as [they] suggest[ed] that Ulbricht, as 'DPR,' was seeking to pay law enforcement for inside information to protect his illegal enterprise,'" the brief reads.
Lightfoot has gone after Preckwinkle over her ties to Alderman Ed Burke, who was charged with extortion in January after allegedly trying to extort the owners of a restaurant chain who wanted to remodel a Burger King in his ward.
After he got naked on webcam for her, the person he was talking to tried to extort him for over a grand by posting a recording of their Skype session on YouTube and threatening to leak it to his family.
Rojas reiterated in his interview with Canal N that villagers want Fuerabamba's three attorneys to be released from jail, where a judge has ordered them to remain for three years while they are investigated for allegedly trying to extort MMG.
Citing an email in which Sheikha Latifa said she intended to claim $300 million in damages against her father, the sheikh said the French operative who arranged her escape, Herve Jaubert, had manipulated her in an attempt to extort money.
The Nike indictment concerns charges announced in March that Avenatti tried to extort more than $20 million from the athletic wear company by threatening to expose what he called its improper payments to recruits for college basketball teams it sponsored.
A few hours after details of the case against him were made public, Neymar posted a video on his Instagram and Facebook pages in which he denied he'd done anything improper and accused the woman of trying to extort him.
But the flourishing markets have a dark side: a prey-and-predator relationship between the mostly female traders and male officials who extort bribes and demand sexual favors from them, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday.
Citing an email in which Sheikha Latifa said she intended to claim $300 million in damages against her father, the sheikh said the French operative who arranged her escape, Herve Jaubert, had manipulated her in an attempt to extort money.
For the second time in three years, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday that former State Senator Dean G. Skelos had used his position as majority leader to extort executives at three companies to give work to his son.
A U.S. judge on Wednesday said federal prosecutors may not try to show that Michael Avenatti's heavy debts gave him the motive to extort Nike, giving a victory to the celebrity lawyer as he prepares for his upcoming criminal trial.
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti wants a U.S. judge to exclude large amounts of material that federal prosecutors produced recently for his trial accusing him of trying to extort Nike Inc, or else to delay the Jan.
While there is still nothing definitive to link the attacks to the North, some analysts have suspected North Korean involvement, citing similarities between the ransomware used to extort computer users into paying the hackers and previously deployed North Korean malware codes.
"As we know, MS-13 is a ruthless, savage gang,'' he added, "which commits acts of violence to recruit, retain, and control its members and exact revenge on its rivals, as well as to extort innocent members of our community.
NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti, the celebrity lawyer and self-described high-profile nemesis of U.S. President Donald Trump, faces a trial on charges he tried to extort Nike Inc and defrauded a youth basketball coach he represented.
But make no mistake: Those events were caused by a president who tried to extort help from a foreign government to investigate a political opponent, and by an administration that knew Trump's actions were grossly inappropriate but tried to cover up.
"MS-13 is a ruthless, savage gang which commits acts of violence to recruit, retain and control its members and exact revenge on its rivals, as well as to extort innocent members of our community," Sini said in a news release.
Hunter Biden doesn't have any relevant -- and that's the key word -- relevant information about anything that Donald Trump was doing to extort an investigation of the Biden family out of the Ukraine government" in exchange for military aid," he said.
Selna ordered Avenatti to be transported "forthwith," by no later than Friday, to New York, where he had been scheduled to begin trial next Tuesday on charges of trying to extort more than $2000 million from athletic apparel giant Nike.
His attempt to extort the Ukrainian government into investigating Democrat Joe Biden, one of the leading contenders for his party's nomination for president, has made it clear: Donald Trump is part of a digital human centipede of his own making.
"If there's going to be a deepfakes law, it needs to account for free speech," he added, noting that if people use deepfakes to do something illegal — like blackmail or extort someone, for example — they can be prosecuted under existing legislation.
Among other texts claiming she was a "super broke girl" and prompts to "look up her background history," the texts reportedly included an accusation that she was lying about her 2017 claim in order to extort money out of Brown, 31.
But she also seems to firmly believe that these allegations — that the president sought to extort a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 election on his behalf — are so beyond the pale that public support for impeachment will only rise.
Bezos has implied that AMI tried to extort him to please the Saudi government — which allegedly has links to AMI and is upset about the Washington Post's coverage of the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi — or President Donald Trump.
"The fundamental thing is you can not be secretary of state of the United States of America and use that position to extort or seek contributions to your private foundation," he told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" in 2016.
" The Monaco-based IAAF, reeling from a succession of doping and graft scandals, said it was "angered to see that individuals have in the panel's finding 'conspired to extort what were in substance bribes from the athletes by acts of blackmail'.
Around for years but now widespread enough that it's likely already caused chaos at a local hospital, police department, or school district, so-called "ransomware" is fast becoming the tool of choice among hackers seeking to extort a quick buck.
But he somehow lost 41 percent of the primary vote anyway in West Virginia to a prisoner named Keith Judd, who was then serving a 15-year sentence for "trying to extort his wife in divorce proceedings," according to CBS News.
"AMI states unequivocally that any suggestion that it would seek to 'extort' the President of the United States through the exercise of its editorial discretion is outrageous, offensive, and wholly without merit," Stracher wrote in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Still via YoutubeThe Justice Department on Tuesday charged an Iranian national with hacking into HBO, as well as attempting to extort the television network for $6 million worth of bitcoin, according to an indictment filed Tuesday in the US District Court in Manhattan.
"He obtained information from them and then utilized it for his own benefit and then utilized it to extort more from them," Schimel told reporters, adding that most of the victims have yet to be identified and many may now be adults.
If that is the case, experts say it is probably because of military setbacks, such as the loss of Ramadi, Iraq, which deprived the Islamic State of a bustling commercial center whose inhabitants and businesses the militants could extort, tax and fine.
Sabbag spoke out at a press conference with high-profile attorney Lisa Bloom on Wednesday, where she refuted claims that she was part of an attempt to extort money from the actor in exchange for an explicit video showing of the two them.
In the hacking incident last year, Pence's email account was compromised by a scammer who used it to try and extort money from members of his contact list by claiming Pence and his wife were stranded in the Philippines, The Indianapolis Star reports.
The meeting signals that the US attorney's office is escalating its inquiry connected to Bezos's suggestion that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia was behind a National Enquirer story that exposed his extramarital affair and his claim that the tabloid attempted to extort him.
The ex-girlfriend of San Francisco 49ers player Reuben Foster admitted in court this week that she fabricated claims that the linebacker physically abused her in order to ruin his career and extort him for financial gain, according to The Mercury News.
"While Mr. Herjavec deeply regrets that it has come to this point, Miss Vasinova's repeated attempts to extort him have forced him to protect his family and seek relief in the court of law," a spokesperson for Herjavec told PEOPLE in a statement.
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Phillippe's lawsuit denies the allegations, claiming Hewitt "broke into Phillippe's home in the middle of the night without permission" and "fabricated a story in an unjustified attempt to extort money" from him to help her modeling career.
After an investigation that lasted more than two years, he was indicted in 22015 in a racketeering conspiracy to extort millions after prosecutors said he asked for payoffs from people who applied for riverboat casino licenses in New Orleans in the 1990s.
Setya Novanto, of the opposition Golkar party, was found guilty of ethics violations after an internal probe into a meeting at which he is accused of trying to extort shares worth $1.8 billion from mining giant Freeport-McMoran to ensure its contract extension.
Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was arrested Monday in New York City on charges of trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening to publicize claims that company employees authorized payments to the families of top high school basketball players.
The facts are clear: The president of the United States sought to besmirch a political rival, extort an embattled ally, subvert the will of Congress, lie to everyone about everything and then brazenly insist there is nothing wrong with any of this.
The case for weighing the impeachment of President Trump boils down to a few simple points: In an effort to win re-election in 2020, Mr. Trump apparently attempted to extort a foreign government into announcing an investigation of his top political rival.
"It is definitely an increase that we see -- that more and more hackers are misusing the whole brand reputation and any type of review process to blackmail and extort companies," Candid Wueest, a Symantec threat researcher based in Europe, told The Hill.
"It is definitely an increase that we see — that more and more hackers are misusing the whole brand reputation and any type of review process to blackmail and extort companies," Candid Wueest, a Symantec threat researcher based in Europe, told The Hill.
"Trump putting the screws and the pressure on Ukraine ... to extort and grind a poor fledging democracy, it's beyond the pale of understanding," said Ulana Mazurkevich, a business owner from the Philadelphia area and a Democrat who declined to give her age.
If there's no force, there's no terrorism; and if the force is not directed at some exercise of federal authority, there would be no effort to extort the United States or its government, which is the essence of a federal terrorism offense.
After passage by Congress of the "Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act," the U.S. sanctioned Artem Chaika, the son of Russia's prosecutor general, who used his father's position to extort bribes and win contracts for himself and his cronies, while driving out competition.
One of the less overtly alarming but still widespread issues has been the shoddy state of its copyright infringement claims system, which report after report have repeatedly indicated is trivially abused to file false claims, extort creators, and generally make YouTubers' lives hell.
The split came as investigators widened their inquiry into the scandal surrounding Park, who has been accused of colluding with a longtime confidante to extort money and favors from the country's biggest companies, and to allow the friend to manipulate government affairs.
"—Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) November 10, 2019Himes said the very language of the phrase can be confusing, when he thought it should be simple to communicate "that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody.
The hard-line stance from the rulers of global athletics emerged just a day after British lawmakers accused Coe of misleading a parliamentary investigation about when he first became aware of a scheme to extort Russian athletes who had failed drug tests.
The agency also learned that the mysterious assassination of Hector Hidalgo Sola, Argentina's ambassador to Venezuela, which occurred in Buenos Aires in July 1977, was a rogue operation by Argentine intelligence agents who were seeking to extort the diplomat's family for money.
About five years ago, she said, her father-in-law was hacked with a machete by a group of men who invaded his home in Guatemala to extort money they assumed he possessed because he had family members in the United States.
But then he was arrested in March on charges that he tried to extort millions of dollars from Nike, and last week he was accused of defrauding Ms. Daniels, the adult-film star whom he represented in a lawsuit against Mr. Trump.
Until recently, the hardest part of the journey to the United States started not in Central America — where there is free movement across borders and immigrants rarely draw attention — but in Mexico, where criminals often kidnap them and authorities extort or deport them.
Avenatti accused of trying to extort Nike In March 2019, a coach at an amateur basketball program Nike was no longer planning to sponsor, contacted Avenatti and said he had evidence the company illicitly paid the families of top high school basketball players.

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