But Reneé had also been kidnapped and extorted in Mexico.
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They kidnapped a hotel owner and extorted money from shopkeepers.
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Slovakian farmers have reported being beaten and extorted for farmland.
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"She said she was being extorted," McGowan said about Argento, 42.
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But they were being paid, or sometimes extorted, to do it.
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He says he's being extorted over child support but doesn't elaborate.
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Shelke said an estimated $36.5 million was extorted from U.S. residents.
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She also says Kevin ain't special -- lots of guys get extorted.
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Only now it is one of these United States being extorted.
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Simple enough -- until last week, when AMI seemingly extorted Jeff Bezos.
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"We also recovered the 15,000 naira they extorted from him," he added.
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The organization also said PNG police had extorted bribes from some refugees.
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The Gurneys deny any wrongdoing and claim they were intimidated and extorted.
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José's family was literally extorted for money, and his life was threatened.
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Pitino said he was being extorted, and the woman was later convicted.
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"The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," he said.
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Kazuo alleged that police officers had previously extorted money from her husband.
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Read: Migrant father who drowned with daughter was extorted hours before crossing.
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Edwin Edwards allegedly extorted $6900,2628 from him to win a casino license.
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His parents say the officers extorted money from them and then killed him.
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Bulgarian border guards, according to Human Rights Watch, have beaten and extorted others.
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Once, the Pesces extorted tickets for the entire family from a visiting circus.
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Criminals have extorted Hondurans into paying an arbitrary "war tax" for their survival.
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"Suffice it to say, Mr. Beckham refused to be extorted," the lawsuit claims.
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" He also says, "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.
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Edwin Edwards (D) extorted $400,000 from him in exchange for a casino license.
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He will be shunned and maybe harmed by most, or extorted by others.
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VICE News spoke with and reviewed recorded testimonies of 10 migrants who said they were extorted or witnessed others being extorted by Mexican immigration officials in Reynosa and Matamoros, two of the busiest ports of entry between Mexico and Texas.
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Invite a Handy cleaner into your home and you may end up being extorted.
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Doctors there recently threatened to strike, because so many of them are being extorted.
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He basically extorted state employees to force them to join a union against their will.
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They say the rebels extorted money from relatives wanting to recover tortured bodies for burial.
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Extorted companies lose productivity, and people's health may be at risk if ransomware targets hospitals.
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President Trump cannot and must not be extorted, and public employees should not be played.
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Desperate police officers, he explained, had extorted cash from drivers to replace their unpaid salaries.
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He imprisoned women's rights activists and extorted from business leaders, and there were no consequences.
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"Now I consider they were extorted and used as a weapon against me," Ms. Gee said.
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"Now I consider they were extorted and used as a weapon against me," Ms. Gee said.
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They are kidnapped, sold between captors, extorted and sometimes forced into prostitution and unpaid hard labor.
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Nike said in a statement it "will not be extorted" and alerted investigators to Avenatti's demands immediately.
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And it has extorted intellectual property for Chinese entities as the price for participation in Chinese markets.
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In other words, our country was blackmailed and extorted into paying this unheard-of amount of money.
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Stationed in Germany, he allegedly received and attempted to transfer extorted funds to the Syrian Electronic Army.
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Cartel members in Nuevo Laredo had robbed, extorted, and repeatedly threatened immigrants outside shelters in the town.
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DeBartolo had admitted to failing to report he was extorted by a former Louisiana governor in 1998.
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His accusers described an atmosphere of fear and cruelty in which Ailes extorted sex for career advancement.
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"I never in my life thought I was going to get here and be extorted," Joharvy said.
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In May, he said the Justice Department was "not going to be extorted" by the threats of impeachment.
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While in captivity, some migrants were tortured, others' families extorted for money, others still forced to perform labor.
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" On May 1, Rosenstein told a crowd that "the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.
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And I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.
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In instances where someone is being trolled or extorted, they are handing over private information to their abuser.
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Nike said in a statement that it "will not be extorted" and alerted investigators to Avenatti's demands immediately.
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"And I think they should understand by now, the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted."
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Hastert at one point told the FBI that he was being extorted by someone falsely claiming sexual abuse.
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"People think, 'Anyone who comes back from the U.S. has money,' so they'll be extorted," Mr. López said.
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After they confessed to the crimes they hadn't committed, Ray allegedly extorted them for money and unpaid labor.
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Despite its name, migrants enrolled in the MPP are often kidnapped or extorted by gangs and drug cartels.
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But the increase has also become a boon to Mexican cartels, who have extorted avocados farmers for money.
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In 2011, the group regularly extorted money from aid agencies and managed to wrest control of critical food supplies.
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The actor – who previously said he was extorted over his status – says he saw no option but coming clean.
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He said Rowland had extorted $1,000 from her by threatening to post compromising photos of them on the internet.
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" Dershowitz writes that impeaching Trump would be possible, though, "if he did it because he was paid or extorted.
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McMahon, the story goes, felt extorted but paid the money, then promptly made Jarrett persona non grata in WWE.
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"I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," he added.
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While I was in Jalalabad, doctors threatened to strike, because so many of them are being kidnapped and extorted.
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"Over nearly a decade Ray coerced and extorted nearly $1 million in payments from five different victims," Berman said.
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" McDougal's lawsuit argued that Fox News defamed her by branding her as a "criminal who extorted Trump for money.
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We tried moving to another town until things cooled down, but the gangs found us there and extorted us.
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Brice videotaped the forced sexual encounter and extorted money from the man for having sex with an underage girl.
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In addition to hiding from immigration authorities, migrants have to worry about being attacked or extorted by gangs and cartels.
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It recruited both volunteers and conscripts, extorted ordinary citizens, and plundered oil reserves and ancient artifacts to fill its coffers.
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Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from Rosneft.
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Mel B believes the sex tapes are there and claims Gilles and Belafonte have extorted her, threatening to release them.
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In the movie, the killers extorted 30,000 renminbi, or about $4,475 at today's rates, in hush money for one death.
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As well as the politically focused web defacements, Dardar allegedly also hacked into businesses and then extorted money from them.
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The only transportation company chief who has refused to be extorted — and has made his refusal public — is Catalino Miranda.
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He still claims that the "donations" Samsung paid out to Ms. Choi were coerced, suggesting that the company was extorted.
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They pilfered cargo as it came ashore and extorted truckers who had come to collect cargo or drop it off.
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"Nike will not be extorted or hide information that is relevant to a government investigation," the company said in a statement.
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Lee will not be extorted or blackmailed, and will pay no money to anyone because he has done absolutely nothing wrong.
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Instead of making a deal, Nike called the FBI saying it was being extorted, and the FBI began recording the meetings.
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Criminals have extorted Hondurans into paying an arbitrary "war tax" for their survival, and those who can't pay are often killed.
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Kidnappings over the last 15 years have made the Abu Sayyaf militants notorious, with extorted ransoms running into millions of dollars.
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On Tuesday, Rosenstein warned GOP lawmakers against pressuring the Justice Department, saying that the agency would not be "extorted" by Congress.
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Criminals have extorted Hondurans into paying an arbitrary "war tax" for their survival, and those who can't pay often are killed.
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Have guests been blackmailed, extorted, or otherwise had the records of their trips used against them as futuristic, Wild West kompromat?
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"I'm not going to allow New Yorkers to be extorted," Mr. Cuomo said in an interview on NY1 on Tuesday morning.
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Watts extorted money from drug dealers and other residents, and when they didn't pay him he fabricated drug charges against them.
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People knew Juana had a husband in the United States and extorted her for money with threats of violence, he says.
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Detained overnight, policemen tortured and extorted him of money after they found out he'd been saving to open a clothing shop.
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She says O'Reilly insinuated she extorted him which she says is a lie, calling the former FNC host a "serial abuser."
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For this installment, we hear from a taco truck owner in Los Angeles who used to get extorted by local gangbangers.
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Those who make it to Italy tell of being extorted, beaten, tortured, raped, starved and forced to work for no pay.
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Argento complained, Dove told CNN, that she was being extorted for money by Bennett and initially denied having sex with him.
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" Dershowitz writes in the book that impeaching Trump would be possible "if he did it because he was paid or extorted.
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"Every individual involved in this transaction has never once mentioned, implied or otherwise indicated that McDougal extorted Trump," the suit says.
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But fearing that it would only lead to him being extorted more and more, M. ultimately decided against paying the man off.
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"I could name ten right now, people successfully extorted or very close to it," says Blair Berk, a criminal lawyer in Hollywood.
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Our communities need strong privacy rules to ensure that they cannot be extorted into giving up our personal information for internet access.
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As we reported, Epstein was extorted by several inmates who threatened him with death unless he put money in their commissary accounts.
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The indictment also said that Mr. Ray extorted $1 million from five of his victims, which he shared with two unidentified associates.
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Avenatti is scheduled for trial next week in Manhattan federal court on allegations that he extorted Nike for up to $25 million.
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Corrupt fighters on the rebel side extorted those desperate to cross; snipers on the regime side used the alley for target practice.
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Mr. Lee and Samsung argued that the "donations" Samsung paid out to Ms. Choi were coerced, suggesting that the company was extorted.
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Central Americans are regularly kidnapped and extorted, a fate Cubans have largely escaped in the past because they did not linger long.
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Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from top oil producer Rosneft.
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Ulyukayev was dismissed and put under house arrest in November over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from Russian oil producer Rosneft.
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The report also documents cases where government workers extorted money from artisanal mine workers by making them pay for access to unauthorized areas.
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In response to lawful demands for documents as to the origins of the investigation, he responded that he wouldn't be "extorted" by Congress.
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Did the athletes understand that they were being asked to pay for the restroom damages, or did they believe they were being extorted?
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The Knights Templar muscled in next, spouting a chivalric code of honor as it taxed, extorted and kidnapped farmers and usurped their land.
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Several migrants told VICE they were extorted twice by immigration agents; when they arrived in Cancun and later at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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That he committed the murder while on a trip traveling with money he allegedly extorted from Natalee's mom only compounds the twin tragedies.
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When confronted in 2014, Mr. Hastert initially said he was just wary of banks, but his lawyers later claimed he was being extorted.
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While she is breaking new partisan ground by holding the articles of impeachment hostage, the Senate will not be extorted by her demands.
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Ronald Watts, allegedly extorted the 15 men in separate incidents over those five years in a public housing project on Chicago's South Side.
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They are leaving Honduras, many say, because the little money they make is extorted from them by gangs, which threaten non-payers with death.
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They were fleeing El Salvador because Abel's grandmother was being extorted; people were threatening Abel's life if she did not pay a monthly fee.
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" The court filing alleges that Oliveira "has blackmailed, extorted and stalked Simmons for several years with the intention of destroying (Simmons') career and reputation.
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Chiquita is currently facing a lawsuit in Florida over Hasbún's accusations; the company claims it did not give the payments voluntarily, but was extorted.
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Samsung meanwhile will strive to prove that it was extorted by the government to make contributions to the entities overlooked by Choi, Stangarone continued.
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Sleepy Joe won't get to the starting gate, & based on all of the money he & his family probably "extorted," Joe should hang it up.
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Asylum-seekers in MPP, also known as "Remain in Mexico," have reported being assaulted, kidnapped, and extorted while being forced to wait in Mexico.
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But Parsons is too ready to exculpate Qawuqji, whose men looted and extorted their fellow-Arabs, and punished entire villages that they deemed traitorous.
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The aristocracy robbed and extorted for centuries, tweeted Kathrin Vogler, an MP for Die Linke, adding that aristocrats are lucky Germany is not France.
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I have sat with youths who tearfully explained to me why they attempted to migrate north, forced out of their homes, extorted by gangs.
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They also reportedly extorted Stanton by demanding ransom money in exchange for not further distributing the images and harassed her via email, she told People.
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Although he was eventually convicted of paying a smaller inducement, of 8.9bn won, Mr Lee still insists that Ms Park extorted the money from him.
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" She said that Bennett extorted her for the money, noting that he had "previously undertaken legal actions against his own family requesting millions in damages.
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The ransomware, called SamSam, successfully extorted more than $6 million in ransom, the Department of Justice said, and caused more than $30 million in damage.
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I have talked to refugees who have been shot, raped, extorted, kidnapped and had their houses burned down by gangs allied with corrupt police officers.
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Mexico is also grappling with corruption within its migration authorities and is investigating reports that border agents extorted migrants, Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero said.
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In May, 2012, the judge overseeing the case of a man who allegedly extorted Stevie Wonder caught a TMZ cameraman illicitly taping the courtroom proceedings.
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In a Today show interview announcing that he is HIV-positive, Sheen said he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to disclose the diagnosis.
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Spencer then claimed that Gersh had extorted her, and Anglin posted photos and contact information along with instructions to "make your opinions known" about the issue.
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Investigators said the militia monopolized the distribution of cooking gas in the hardscrabble city of Itaboraí and extorted firms transporting workers to an unfinished petrochemical complex.
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Cyber criminals have extorted hundreds of millions from victims using these attacks, yet the technique has baffled law enforcement and received little attention on Capitol Hill.
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He says the smugglers abused him physically and only released him once they had extorted money from him and his friends through their families back home.
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Some say Choi reviewed and made recommendations on government policy papers, and extorted donations of millions of dollars from businesses for two foundations that she controlled.
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Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator who effectively extorted tens of millions of dollars in assistance from Italy in return for keeping a lid on migration.
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But Johnson cited an example of a UK company that was extorted for about $220,000 because someone spoofed the CEO's voice for a wire transfer scam.
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For years, the Nasa were terrorized by the rebels, who not only taxed the marijuana trade, but also extorted from legal businesses in towns like Toribío.
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ISIS also ran a quasi-state that taxed and extorted its millions of subjects, enabling it to field a terrorist army with a large war chest.
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He said he was skeptical about whether the ban was reducing corruption, noting that he continued to be stopped by traffic police officers who extorted bribes.
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The report said officials extorted money from a population struggling to make ends meet, threatening them with detention and prosecution - particularly those working in the informal economy.
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President Vladimir Putin fired Ulyukayev as economy minister earlier this week after his arrest over allegations that he extorted a $2 million bribe from oil major Rosneft.
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The statement said IPOB had formed a "Biafra secret service" a paramilitary division, extorted money from people on public roads and attacked members of the armed forces.
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Some Gulf of Mexico oil workers, many of whom come from inland states, were already getting extorted by the cartel on trips into Jalisco New Generation territory.
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"There is definitely a prima facie case to be made that Jeff Bezos was being extorted by National Enquirer," said Mr. Nettles, the former United States attorney.
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Photogs fired off a series of questions about Kevin getting extorted -- as TMZ first reported someone demanded 8 figures to keep a sexually explicit video under wraps.
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Investigators said the militia monopolized the distribution of cooking gas in the hardscrabble city of Itaboraí and even extorted companies transporting workers to Petrobras' uncompleted Comperj refinery.
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He told a Law Day conference last May that the department "is not going to be extorted," after some House Republicans raised the prospect of seeking Rosenstein's impeachment.
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On one hand, it is great to have your seats filled but on the other hand, it can feel like you are being extorted by the Mara Salvatrucha.
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In his interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen, 50, told Matt Lauer he was extorted for $103 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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Mr Rosenstein retorted that the Department of Justice "is not going to be extorted", and is said to have told friends that he is ready to be fired.
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In his interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen, 50, told Matt Lauer he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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Odell's camp vehemently denied the allegations -- claimed Beckham had no involvement in any violence -- and claimed Beckham was being extorted by a man who filed a frivolous lawsuit.
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Some asylum seekers sent back to Mexico under Trump's "Remain in Mexico" program have been reportedly raped, extorted and murdered at the hands of gangs and organized crime.
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She told the German public broadcaster ARD that she had been extorted and pressured to take drugs, and she provided recordings suggesting that she was far from alone.
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Members were allegedly branded with the organization&aposs symbol and extorted with sensitive content that they were asked to surrender to the organization as a kind of commitment.
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Security experts identified the assailants as the SamSam hacking crew, which is believed to have extorted more than $1 million from some 30 target organizations in 2018 alone.
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The Armada Collective is believed to have extorted hundred of thousands of dollars from companies around the world since reports of the group began emerging early last year.
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The Treasury Department said that Mr. Cabello and his brother extorted money from companies doing business in Venezuela, by threatening them with large fines resulting from tax audits.
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They extorted large sums of money from residents, many of whom live on less than $1.25 a day, and shot them dead if they did not offer enough.
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He also extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from them, made them work without pay and in one case forced a young woman into prostitution, federal prosecutors said.
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"No matter which version of Trump's statements one believes, Trump never once claimed that he was extorted" by Ms. McDougal, her lawyer, Mr. Bernstein, wrote in the lawsuit.
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Federal prosecutors are reviewing Mr. Bezos' claim that he has been extorted, according to two people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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The cartel not only murdered, kidnapped, and extorted at will, it also ran a kind of de facto government that municipal, state, and federal forces did little to stop.
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While in Berlin Asia had mentioned that she was being extorted for a large sum of money every month by someone who was blackmailing them with a provocative image.
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An alarmed friend searched his name online and found "all these women who were trying to warn other women that he had extorted them and stalked them," says Bowman.
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Activists argued that prisoners were effectively being extorted by private companies charging exorbitant rates — a move that benefited private prisons and the states that got cuts of the revenue.
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As we reported, Mel B claims Stephen extorted her with sex tapes, allegedly saying he would ruin her if she ever left him or tried to fire their nanny.
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In an interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen also told Matt Lauer that he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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Under this scheme, innocent and unwitting Ukrainians were unknowingly entered into the visa lottery system and then extorted for money or forced to enter fake marriages if they won.
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One of these mines, in Mexico's violent Guerrero state, was the focus of kidnapping attempts by local cartels that saw a number of employees extorted and murdered last year.
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"No matter which version of Trump&aposs statements one believes, Trump never once claimed that he was extorted," McDougal&aposs attorney said in the lawsuit, according to The Times.
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"If you transport melons from Kunduz to Kabul, the shipment gets stopped and extorted up to 230 times," said Siamuden Pasarly, a spokesman for the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce.
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Charges that show that the president did in fact want to use investigations secretly extorted from Ukraine as a way to kneecap his main rival in this year's election.
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Do Republicans know that when you are being extorted, you don't admit feeling pressure; You'll feign niceties and will cover for that person because you need something from him?
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Trump also pardoned former San Francisco 85033ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., who pleaded guilty in 1998 for failing to report that he was extorted by an ex-Louisiana governor.
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Though not before Marcel Cerdan's American representatives allegedly extorted another $295,2100 out of LaMotta in "fees" for the fight—a fight for which his purse would amount to only $19,000!
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Many were forced into camps in the Thai jungle, where they were held with other refugees and economic migrants while smugglers extorted more money from their families for their release.
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The interlopers included major gangs like the Zetas, the Knights Templar and a successor cartel known as the Michoacan Family, to which the people who extorted Arredondo claimed to belong.
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In 2013, Salgado, a dual U.S.-Mexico citizen, was arrested after the families of six teenage girls locally accused of dealing drugs said her group had kidnapped and extorted them.
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Asia Argento says Jimmy Bennett -- who had sex with her when he was 17 years old -- is lucky she didn't file charges that HE sexually assaulted and then extorted her.
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Former IAAF head Lamine Diack, who stepped down as president last August, faces criminal corruption charges in France over allegations he extorted money from athletes to cover up the issue.
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Rosenstein has fiercely pushed back against his House Republican critics, warning in May that the Justice Department is "not going to be extorted" amid threats that he could be impeached.
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But drought and climate change made it inconvenient for the Romans to live up to their commitments, so they extorted the Goths, sometimes taking Gothic children in payment for food.
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His son, who also owned a bus, said his father, tired of being extorted, had finally stopped making his $1 daily payment to the gang three weeks before his death.
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Their maternal aunt who lives in the US has indicated to case managers that the mother may be in a situation where she's being trafficked or extorted, the source said.
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But just because the United States has been a friend in the past does not mean Ukraine has to allow itself to be extorted and humiliated by a trusted ally.
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One of the agents stole about 20,000 bitcoin — worth about $160 million at today's prices — while another extorted the creator of Silk Road, and stole from other early crypto investors.
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The unprecedented outbreak, which began last Friday, locked up computers and extorted users for large Bitcoin payments in nations as diverse as the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Spain, and India.
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Several of the indictments filed on Tuesday relate to a different traffic stop, in February, that involved Shandle Riley, whom prosecutors say Mr. Wilkey stalked, assaulted, extorted and falsely imprisoned.
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Mr. Maduro was re-elected to a second term last May in a sham election in which opposition candidates were barred from running, and starving Venezuelans were extorted for votes.
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President Vladimir Putin dismissed Ulyukayev on Tuesday over allegations he extorted the bribe from top oil producer Rosneft, a case that could expose fault lines in the Russian leader's inner circle.
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Members were allegedly branded with the organization&aposs symbol and extorted with sensitive content including nude photos that they were asked to surrender to the organization as a kind of commitment.
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He was extorted by Mexican police for just $5 although he'd just dropped off $60,000 of studio equipment, and left the country two hours before their worst earthquake in a decade.
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The two left San Salvador on May 12 after Jimenez was extorted by a gang member at his home and later accused by police of being a gangster, the father said.
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As the pair barter over the organ, Antonio is extorted for ever greater payments; eventually he is asked to turn over his home, jeopardising the safety of his wife and children.
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The Ukrainians were clearly aware that they were being extorted and that vital military aid was being held up until they opened an investigation that would damage Trump's domestic political opponents.
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If you ask Laufer, he'll say Heinz—and the millions of other Americans who are in a similar position—have every right to access the medicine they need without being extorted.
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The initial ruling is a blow for Simmons, who sued the Enquirer in a bombshell lawsuit in May, which also alleged former associate Mauro Oliveira had "blackmailed, extorted and stalked" him.
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The FBI got involved on December 15, 2015, after Hernandez (as "Brian Kil") had already extorted a number of images and videos of one underage girl and posted them on Facebook.
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NESAR AHMED spent over a month on the Iranian side of the mountainous Turkish frontier, forced to move from one safe house to another, beaten and extorted by smugglers and middlemen.
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Rosenstein's response, in yet another bombshell, is that he will not permit the Justice Department to be "extorted" by partisan Trump supporters who employ threats to undermine the rule of law.
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A celebrity attorney who has represented Hollywood stars like "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was named as a co-conspirator in charges alleging Michael Avenatti extorted Nike, according to multiple news outlets.
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After it, she became a leading crusader against the Mafia's longstanding, often ruthless grip on life in Sicily, where small businesses were routinely extorted for protection money and killings were commonplace.
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In a retrial in 22001, a new jury found Mr. Garcia guilty of extorting the loan from Wedtech but did not reach a verdict on whether he had extorted the $76,000.
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A recently unsealed FBI filing claims that Brian Kil targeted victims in "at least 10 federal districts" over the course of five years and extorted images of girls as young as 12.
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It was supposed to reduce coca cultivation; the FARC had extorted a tax on coca crops and trafficked cocaine, and under the peace deal it is to support the government's eradication efforts.
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"In the first half of this decade, more than 2,000 aid workers were kidnapped, extorted, used as proxy targets, bombed, assaulted, shot or otherwise attacked for doing their jobs," the petition reads.
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The recruits were allegedly branded with the organization&aposs symbol and extorted with sensitive content including nude photos that they were asked to surrender to the organization as a kind of commitment.
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Increasingly, there are two types of people when it comes to ransomware attacks: those who have been extorted to regain control of their computer and those that will be in the future.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Monday condemned the hanging in Iraq of 36 men convicted of a mass killing of soldiers, saying some of their confessions were extorted under threats and torture.
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At one point, a lawyer for Mr. Hastert told the authorities that his client was being extorted by Individual A over a false claim of abuse, a court filing by prosecutors says.
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Long story short ... DeBartolo claimed he was being extorted by ex-Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards -- who demanded $400,000 in cash to get the last riverboat casino license offered up by the state.
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Republic Records honcho and 'The Four' judge Charlie Walk claims he was being extorted before an ex-employee accused him of sexual misconduct, and says he has a voicemail to prove it.
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On February 24, de Lima was arrested on charges that she extorted bribes from high-profile drug dealers in prison during her term as secretary of justice to fund her senatorial campaign.
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"We refuse to be extorted by an ambitious Attorney General who clearly cares more about scoring political points than fighting real crime and improving the lives of the people of Maryland," he said.
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With his multiple mistresses and swanky apartment stuffed with extorted loot, Ma Daode is an avatar for the abuses inflicted by the self-proclaimed "ruling party of humanity" on the people of China.
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"We refuse to be extorted by an ambitious attorney general who clearly cares more about scoring political points than fighting real crime and improving the lives of the people of Maryland," Morali said.
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Why it matters: The goal of this deal was to help end the dangerous trafficking of Cuban players that has gone on for decades, resulting in players being threatened, extorted or even kidnapped.
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The Investigative Committee, the state agency that investigates major crimes, said Ulyukayev had extorted the bribe in exchange for approving Rosneft's $5 billion purchase of a stake in mid-sized oil producer Bashneft.
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NotPetya took its name from its resemblance to the ransomware Petya, a piece of criminal code that surfaced in early 2016 and extorted victims to pay for a key to unlock their files.
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Reuters spoke to six asylum seekers at Osorto's camp who said they had been kidnapped or extorted, and several more who had brushes with suspected criminals near the border or elsewhere within Mexico.
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"In most cases, 'TheDarkOverlord' extorted his victims with verbose, condescending, and abusive language, and taunted victim companies, their employees, and (in at least one case) the children of victim employees," the affidavit continues.
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"We are changing practically all the personnel and, of course, we have already presented some criminal complaints against immigration agents who extorted money from people trying to enter our country," Sánchez Cordero said.
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The controversy has led to allegations that Trump may have extorted Ukraine into investigating a political opponent in exchange for military aid, prompting a renewed wave of calls for his impeachment among Democrats.
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The holdup power created under fractional licensing and the complete lack of transparency as to who owns which rights, will subject American businesses to higher rates extorted only under threat of infringement suit.
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She also has clients who are being extorted into providing sex or money because someone has graphic pictures of them and is threatening to send the images to employers or parents or siblings.
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More than a few Iran experts offered a different explanation: A hefty portion of the money came from a 10 percent tax extorted by members of her family on exports, imports and government contracts.
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When police intervened to arrest Meehan, he was driving a car apparently extorted from another woman and living in a cluttered RV that he'd conned from a third woman, according to the former investigator.
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The Investigative Committee, the state agency that investigates major crimes, said Ulyukayev had extorted the bribe in exchange for approving Rosneft's $5 billion purchase of a stake in mid-sized oil producer Bashneft (BANE.MM).
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The I.A.A.F. banned him for life following allegations that he extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Russian marathon runner so that the athlete could avoid a doping ban before the 2012 Olympics.
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He was responding to criticism after a South Korean businessman was strangled at Police Headquarters last year by officers who later extorted ransom money from his family under the pretense that he was alive.
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A New York blockchain consulting firm allegedly extorted a Seattle crypto start-up with threats to hijack its initial coin offering, in a case announced Wednesday by the Eastern District of New York prosecutor.
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Under the cover story of a hacktivist group known as "Guardians of Peace," they breached the company, spilled thousands of its emails online, extorted the it for cash, and destroyed hundreds of its computers.
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The issue of bogus copyright claims has been around for years, but a recent report from the Verge illustrating how YouTube creators are being extorted by false copyright complaints brought it back to the forefront.
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And Italy has taken a harder line on migrants crossing the Mediterranean, working with Libya's coast guard to return them to Libya — where they are extorted, tortured and enslaved — before they get to Italian soil.
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He said Mr. Samson had extorted United to get the airline to schedule flights that perfectly suited him — from Newark to Columbia at the end of the week and back to Newark after the weekend.
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Nike said in a statement that it would "not be extorted or hide information that is relevant to a government investigation" and had been cooperating with an investigation into NCAA basketball for over a year.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill also regularly took him to task in Trump's defense, and he fought back -- warning that the Justice Department was "not going to be extorted" amid the threats that he could be impeached.
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Shortly after Trump spoke to the group, The Wall Street Journal reported that the NRA's longtime leader, Wayne LaPierre, had informed the board that he was being extorted and pressured to resign by retired Lt. Col.
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Rod Rosenstein, America's deputy attorney-general, defended Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian links with aides to Donald Trump, and said that the Department of Justice "is not going to be extorted" by threats from congressional Republicans.
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But action is secondary to atmosphere: Onuzo excels at evoking a stratified city, where society weddings feature "ice sculptures as cold as the unmarried belles" and thugs write tidy receipts for kickbacks extorted from homeless travellers.
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"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.
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" At the time, McGowan said Argento opened up to her and Rain Dove about how "she was being extorted for a large sum of money every month by someone who was blackmailing them with a provocative image.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev on Tuesday over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from top oil producer Rosneft, a case that could expose fault lines in the Russian leader's inner circle.
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Plaintiffs' lawyer Jeffrey Talbert of Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios said Chiquita may still argue to the jury that FARC extorted the payments, but the summary judgment ruling means those arguments "may not be legally relevant," he said.
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Bobby's rep tells TMZ ... the R&B singer vehemently denies the person he hooked up with over the weekend was a prostitute, and says he's now being extorted after the person filming him realized who he was.
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Armed groups had "forced temporary or permanent closure of medical facilities; damaged or destroyed medical facilities; looted medical supplies; stolen ambulances; threatened, intimidated, extorted, or detained medical personnel; and occupied medical facilities for military purposes," it said.
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READ: Netanyahu's indictment just plunged Israel deeper into political chaos In his address, the veteran right-wing leader alleged investigators had extorted witnesses, such as his former media advisor Nir Hefetz, who turned state's witness against him.
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Kimberly Goody, a cybercrime analyst at FireEye, said Ryuk had been tied to financially motivated criminals and that its operators typically extorted more than $300,000 at a time, with some ransoms reaching into the millions of dollars.
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Criminals who stole or extorted Bitcoin from their victims would transfer the virtual currencies to BTC-E, which would then convert the virtual currency into traditional currency using a host of bank accounts registered under shell companies.
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It's pretty stunning in the wake of Kevin's claim he's being extorted over video showing him and a woman getting super cozy and another video which makes it appear a sexual encounter is about to go down.
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Aside from the big name reveal ... everything else looks like business as usual for the Harts, even though Kevin's smack dab in the middle of being extorted for a sex tape in which he was secretly filmed.
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Online vigilante justice is something we're seeing more and more of: People whose details were included in the Ashley Madison hack were extorted for money (and there were several suicides after that data was posted online); a hacker has set up To Catch a Predator-style honey pots and extorted the pedophiles he's caught; there is widespread speculation that the NSA and CIA have been involved in blackmailing people culled from large-scale mass surveillance; who knows what's been done in the name of suppressing revenge porn, etc.
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"The content that has been disclosed on the Internet confirms the information that our lawyers released yesterday confirming that the urban music artist Ozuna was extorted with an intimate video where he was a minor," the statement read.
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Lauren Salzman testified that she and others, including Raniere, kept a woman in a room for two years, and that she and others within DOS, including Raniere, took property and extorted more property from women within the group.
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Sonia, who used to run a bakery in El Salvador until she was extorted for money, said the situation back home is unbearable and that she had no other choice but to leave her country looking for safety.
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"There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," he said.
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"There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," Rosenstein continued.
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ROSENSTEIN FIGHTS HOUSE GOP IMPEACHEMENT PUSH, SAYS DOJ 'IS NOT GOING TO BE EXTORTED' The memo by McCabe reportedly claims Rosenstein suggested to him that he was initially asked to reference the Russia investigation in the memo about Comey.
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Locals say that after several low-lying areas in São Bento were declared uninhabitable and 300 families were promised apartments in a government housing project, militia members distributed the flats among families from another area, and then extorted money.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev on Tuesday over allegations he extorted a $2 million bribe from top oil producer Rosneft, a case that could expose fault lines in the Russian leader's inner circle.
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RELATED: Rod Rosenstein: Justice Department is 'not going to be extorted' Asked by Collins how he manages conflicts between the rule of law and a President who has mused about meddling with his own Justice Department, Rosenstein pushed back.
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The predator, according to the Richelieu Saint-Laurent police department, extorted the victims by infiltrating groups who played the game, and then offering to help them level up and get ahead in the game in exchange for explicit photos.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police raided the homes of two former members of a parliamentary inquiry into graft at state oil company Petrobras on Monday, seeking evidence they extorted money from contractors who wanted to avoid being summoned as witnesses.
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Responding to a call this month at a Motel 6, just off Interstate 35, the local police were met by three men who said they had been forcibly detained by smugglers who had extorted $9,000 from each of them.
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While Carlson never mentioned McDougal by name, "it was obvious to a reasonable viewer who he was referring to particularly when Carlson put a picture of McDougal on the screen while reporting that she extorted Trump," the suit says.
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That extortion can be brutal, and sometimes wide-scale: In 2015, they extorted the bus drivers of San Salvador into going on strike for higher wages, so that more of those wages could be turned over to the gang.
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MANILA, Aug 8 (Reuters) - China took aim at the Philippines on Thursday for undermining its crackdown on cross-border gambling, saying many of its citizens lured to work in online gaming firms were being cheated, extorted and exposed to "modern slavery".
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" "I can tell you that there are people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.
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A 25-year-old Las Vegas man extorted hundreds of teenage girls on Facebook and the messaging app Kik, forcing them to send him nude or sexually explicit images of themselves that he then shared with others, federal prosecutors said.
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But as the group gathered for its annual meeting last Friday, the news broke that LaPierre, a longtime NRA executive and public face of the group, had told the organization's board he was being extorted and pressured to resign by North.
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"In the absence of any objective evidence, an allegation was fabricated against me, based exclusively on Sechin's testimony, that I supposedly extorted a bribe from him," the ex-minister, dressed in a blue and white striped polo-shirt, told the court.
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The 2,000-strong ELN, considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union, has extorted, bombed oil and electricity infrastructure and kidnapped hundreds of people over its 52 years to raise funds for the war and pressure the government.
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Starting on campus and, later, at an apartment in Manhattan and in North Carolina, he allegedly extorted and abused several students from the prestigious school and forced at least one student into prostitution over the past decade, according to the indictment.
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One of those asylum seekers, a woman from Honduras, fled to the United States with her daughter after her husband and sister-in-law were extorted by local gangs and murdered one year apart from one another, according to the lawsuit.
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In the mid-to late 1990s, matatu drivers became known in Nairobi for their infamously dangerous driving habits, and the industry was linked with violent criminal gangs like Mungiki, who infiltrated matatu routes and extorted "protection" money from matatu crews.
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DeBartolo Jr. pleaded guilty in 1998 to a felony charge of failing to report that Louisiana's former governor, Edwin Edwards, had extorted $400,000 from him to win a license for his riverboat casino, the San Francisco Chronicle reported at the time.
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Liang expressed concern in a video posted on Monday that the pair were being "extorted" and could lose their channel if Jukin Media contacted Google with all four claims at once, as this could potentially break YouTube&aposs "three strikes" rule.
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In the lawsuit, which was filed in a New York state court, McDougal accused host Tucker Carlson of acting with a "reckless disregard for the truth" when he suggested on a December 2018 episode of his show that she extorted Trump.
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Last year, 35 bus drivers, passengers and fare collectors were killed while riding buses into gang-controlled neighborhoods, while those that were spared a bullet were extorted to the tune of $19 million, according to the Salvadoran public transport owners&apos association.
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For 21999 years, the identity of the mysterious "skyjacker" known as D.B. Cooper – who threatened to blow up a commercial jet before leaping into the night with a parachute and the $245,000 he extorted as ransom by authorities – has remained a mystery.
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"Everyone I had told up to that moment had shaken me down," he said, referring to several people who extorted him "into the millions," including a prostitute who took a photo of his antiretroviral medication and threatened to sell it to the tabloids.
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For 45 years, the identity of the mysterious "skyjacker" known as D.B. Cooper – who threatened to blow up a commercial jet before leaping into the night with a parachute and the $200,000 he extorted as ransom by authorities – has remained a mystery
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ROME (Reuters) - An agreement between Italy and Libya to fight people-smuggling in the north African nation will lead to migrants being returned to camps where they are held against their will, extorted and abused, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Monday.
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READ: Migrant father who drowned with daughter was extorted hours before crossing "He told us if we paid, we wouldn't wait for very long," Milton, a friend who had attempted to cross the river with the family that day, previously told VICE News.
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"The content that has been disclosed on the Internet confirms the information that our lawyers released yesterday confirming that the urban music artist Ozuna was extorted with an intimate video where he was a minor," Ozuna said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested more than 40 people on Thursday for their alleged roles in a murderous gang that extorted companies working for state-run oil company Petrobras and established a secret cemetery to dispose of rivals.
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"I can tell you that there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," he said.
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A group of Republican state attorney generals effectively extorted Trump into killing DACA—the policy that has protected hundreds of thousands of Dreamers from deportation—threatening to sue the Trump administration for continuing the program if it wasn't ended by September 5.
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Meanwhile, $350 million belonging to Aba Ampatsa, son of former Nigerian president Sani Ampatsa, remains frozen in Luxembourg and the Bahamas, due to a global "hunt" for the $3 million and other assets his father extorted from Nigeria during his five-year sovereignty.
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"—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.
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Yemeni government officials and local traders estimated the group, as well as seizing the bank deposits, has extorted $280 million from the national oil company and earns up to $21990 million every day in taxes on goods and fuel coming into the port.
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Riviera Beach, a small city of about 35,000 people just north of West Palm Beach, became the latest government to be crippled by ransomware attacks that have successfully extorted municipalities and forced them to dig into public coffers to restore their networks.
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"When a woman in the public eye is extorted, we have to spend time, money and energy dealing with it, hiring lawyers and security experts, and living with a pit in our stomach about when and how we will be humiliated," she wrote.
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The New York Times reported on Thursday that McDougal&aposs lawsuit, filed in New York, named Fox News as the defendant and accused the host Tucker Carlson of defaming her by asserting on his show last year that she had extorted Trump.
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Over time, using threats and coercion, he persuaded the young adults he first met at the school, Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, N.Y., to confess to crimes they had not committed and then extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from them, prosecutors said.
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"There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," Rosenstein said in a May speech.
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MANILA — A South Korean businessman was strangled at the headquarters of the Philippine National Police last year by officers who later extorted ransom money from his family under the pretense that he was alive, the Philippine Department of Justice said on Thursday.
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Fears about dying of exposure in the desert or mountains, being kidnapped or extorted by criminal elements along the border, or spending a few months in a US jail appear to have cut down the number of people who attempted a border crossing.
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Some police commanders also use highway checkpoints to levy illegal tolls from motorists and Abdulrahimzai said a number of checkpoints along the highway connecting the capital Kabul to the strategic southern province of Kandahar had been removed because the police extorted money from truck drivers.
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"There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," Rosenstein said during an appearance at the Newseum.
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I came off a shift a few days before Christmas, and it had been a hard shift—we'd found some prison hooch, and I'd discovered a man was being extorted into manipulating his own family members to get them to send money to other prisoners.
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"When a woman in the public eye is extorted, we have to spend time, money and energy dealing with it, hiring lawyers and security experts, and living with a pit in our stomach about when and how we will be humiliated," Cummings wrote on Twitter.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 4 (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested 43 people on Thursday for allegedly taking part in a murderous gang that extorted companies providing services to state-run oil company Petrobras and established a secret cemetery where it disposed of rivals.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Security forces and their allies in Burundi have beaten people with rocks, bricks, gun butts and iron bars; they have abducted suspects and extorted money for holding them; and they have buried victims in mass graves, a leading human rights group said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. official overseeing an investigation of ties between President Donald Trump's election team and Russia, warned a group of conservative Republicans on Tuesday that his department would not be "extorted" and criticized them for leaking a draft resolution calling for his impeachment.
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But Leadgate, which believes it was extorted to sell its Pluna stake for no compensation, this past February quietly transferred any remaining legal rights to Tenor Capital Management, a New York hedge fund that buys into situations where it thinks there could be international arbitration claims.
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Park, 65, was impeached in December, officially stripped of power in March and has been in a detention facility near Seoul since being arrested last month on allegations that she extorted from businesses, took bribes and committed other wrongdoing, all in collaboration with a longtime confidante.
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This is not the stuff of the Funeral Oration of Pericles, where you can revel in the splendor and cultural achievement of your own golden age (in his case, paid for by the tribute extorted from Athens' supposed allies, so let's not give him too much credit).
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"There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," Rosenstein said at an event at the Newseum in Washington.
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The Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) on Wednesday said it had issued arrest warrants on a "sextortion ring" that targeted more than 400 U.S. military service members and extorted more than half a million dollars total after South Carolina inmates made them believe they possessed child porn.
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Like them, "Grand Horizons" is perfectly structured, mimicking the classic works of stage comedy with a stupendous Act I curtain, a neat Act II surprise and a final beat that would be haunting if the road leading to it were not so littered with extorted laughs.
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"They took Nir Hefetz and extorted him through threats, telling him [we will] 'destroy your family and strip you of all of your assets, and your children will never speak with you again,'" he said, calling for an "independent committee" to scrutinize the investigation against him.
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A dwindling number who've made it north face new roadblocks, including adding their names to a months-long waitlist to apply for asylum in the U.S. In Tijuana, migrants report being extorted for amounts of $221-$23,2000 in order to get a higher number on the waitlist.
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Tripoli, a hub for migrants and refugees hoping to sail to Europe after a perilous trek through the Sahara, has long been a dangerous dead end: Many end up in detention centres or being tortured by their captors while money is extorted from their families, according to UNHCR.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyer Michael Avenatti pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he extorted Nike Inc, just hours after entering a not-guilty plea to defrauding porn star Stormy Daniels, the client who propelled him to fame as an outspoken adversary of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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In addition to renting a boat that was in "total disrepair," the former Biggest Loser trainer also claimed that the situation turned aggressive when on the third day of their 12-day agreement, she was "extorted for money and things became so escalated" that she feared for her safety.
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In June 1986, Mr. Persico was found guilty in Manhattan on charges that he was the leader of the Colombo family, which controlled union locals representing restaurant, concrete and cement workers, and that he had extorted millions of dollars from unions and construction companies in New York City.
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READ: Migrant father who drowned with his daughter was extorted hours before crossing The downturn in border crossings — largely a result of the summer heat — was also the motivation behind the admin's decision to shut down the influx shelter in Carrizo Springs, Texas, which had just opened in early July.
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Grander efforts have led to the creation of new rules and institutions: a Good Samaritan law passed in March, for instance, protects individuals from being extorted by those they had helped, a circumstance that was so common that it deterred people from coming to the aid of people in need.
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Such a policy deliberately places thousands of people in situations similar to the young family of five that was kidnapped and extorted As violence and insecurity across Central America continues to go unaddressed, families will continue to join our border communities in search of protection for themselves and their children.
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According to the assistant prosecutor on the case, the teen was consistent in the way he preyed upon these young girls, all from Livingston County—"he manipulated, he threatened, he bullied, he extorted, and he intimidated" each of the girls, she wrote, and then "feigned remorsefulness" in order to assault them again.
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READ: Migrant father who drowned with daughter was extorted hours before crossing "With unprecedented numbers of children in government custody, these circumstances have led to children being held in CBP facilities well beyond the allowable 72 hours and in appalling conditions," they wrote in a letter to the secretaries of DHS and HHS.
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Karen McDougal — the Playboy model who has said she had an affair with President Donald Trump — has filed a lawsuit against the Fox News Network, alleging that Fox host Tucker Carlson defamed her by falsely claiming she extorted Trump by threatening to go public before the 2016 election about their past relationship.
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The Hill: Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, who is overseeing the special counsel, says he won't be "extorted" by lawmakers trying to impeach him.
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The plaintiffs have alleged that Rajapaksa was from 2005 to 2015 in command of security forces who systematically abducted, tortured, raped, and extorted money from suspects, the South Africa-based International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) and U.S. law firm Hausfeld that filed the case in the U.S. District Court in central California said on Wednesday.
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Buying land and buildings, hurdling regulations and dealing with the Education Department introduced her to Hong Kong's subculture of corruption, in which the ba wong, or triads, extorted protection money from every hut-dweller and even from street hawkers; in which everyone expected backhanders; and where the police were up to theirkhaki shorts in the narcotics trade.
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In light of the recent spate of sextortion cases that have been occurring in which men are convinced by catfish accounts to get on Skype, perform sexual acts, and are then extorted for money, we spoke to a legal expert to figure out what the nuances are inhibiting the scammers involved from being brought to justice.
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"While the actual members of the original Armada Collective appear locked up in a European jail, with little more than some bitcoin addresses and an email account some enterprising individuals are drafting off the group's original name, sowing fear, and collecting hundreds of thousands of extorted dollars," CloudFlare's founder Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post.
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Parenthetically, I have had a security clearance for communications intelligence since 1980, Kara, and I've never, I don't believe, I Googled this to death, but I never witnessed one case in my lifetime of an American being jailed, harassed, outed, or humiliated in some way, extorted or anything by the government on the basis of their surveillance.
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READ: Migrant father who drowned with daughter was extorted at the border hours before crossing Dinnin said most of the children who passed through the shelter were released to family members in the U.S. within a couple of weeks, which is a big deal because ORR was previously taking months to release children because of bureaucratic delays and onerous fingerprint requirements on sponsors.
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Twain expressed concern about the affordability of housing but settled into a pricey townhouse near Washington Square (the same one in which 6-year-old Lisa Steinberg would be fatally beaten by her father in 1987), introduced Winston Churchill at the Waldorf-Astoria and, when suffering from a cold, sportively extorted the finest Scotch as a curative from Andrew Carnegie.
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The White House on Tuesday brushed off Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE's assertion that the Justice Department would not be "extorted," saying that the remark had "nothing to do with" the administration.
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A lawyer in Laredo, Texas, I recently spoke to astounded me by disclosing that more than half of the migrants she has interviewed have had someone in their family kidnapped, extorted or assaulted by narco cartels while waiting just across the border in Nuevo Laredo, a place so dangerous the U.S. State Department compares it to Syria, North Korea or Yemen.
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Other investigations indicated that it brokered arms deals with criminals, rebels, and terrorists around the world, including fighters on opposing sides of the Syrian civil war; extorted billions of euros from businesses; and swindled the Italian state and the European Union out of tens of billions more, particularly through contracts for roads, ports, wind and solar power, and even the disposal of nuclear waste, which it dumped at sea off Somalia.
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Three pardons drew particular notice: former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., who pleaded guilty in 1998 for failing to report that he was extorted by an ex-Louisiana governor; former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was convicted of tax fraud and making false statements; and financier Michael Milken who pioneered high-yield "junk" bonds and pleaded guilty in 1990 to six felonies related to securities and tax fraud.
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