" CNN went with "Whistleblower accuses cybersecurity company of extorting clients.
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While bandits raise cash by extorting, the economy is collapsing.
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Extorting producers and clients will lose both of them money.
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No. This is about extorting unrelated policy through a government shutdown.
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He suspected the person extorting him was in a different country.
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"It's using my picture, but extorting people for money," he added.
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Stormy Daniels' former lawyer has been found guilty of extorting Nike.
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Choi is on trial for meddling in state affairs and extorting money.
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It described a "widespread pattern of guards beating, humiliating and extorting migrants".
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Ulyukayev is charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from the deal.
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I figured Sid was extorting a chomo for money—no big deal.
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Instead, she says, it was Grigorieva who was extorting Gibson for money.
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Choi is currently on trial for meddling in state affairs and extorting money.
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Officials are stealing and extorting more to make up for their shrinking salaries.
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For years, cybercriminals have been extorting victims by locking their computers with malware.
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Thefts can come from organized cartels or crime groups extorting exchanges and companies.
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Gang members extorting money had killed merchants in the market where she worked.
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Holleeder was convicted in 2007 of extorting Endstra, and sentenced to 9 years.
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Suspects were accused of crimes such as money laundering, bribery and extorting officials.
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But when they got to Reynosa, they heard about immigration officials extorting migrants.
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And there is another country of security servicemen who drive in blackSUVs extorting rents.
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Joel Martinez Hernandez and Lazo were previously charged with kidnapping and extorting Tápanes in 2013.
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Drug gangs in Mexico are also often involved in extorting money from slot machine businesses.
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LaPierre told the NRA board that North was extorting him and pressuring him to resign.
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Prior to the settlement, Uber went so far as to accuse Jacobs of extorting the company.
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Much of ISIS's revenue comes from extorting and taxing the people who live in its territory.
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Now, they were extorting teachers, selling drugs openly and assaulting or killing anyone who confronted them.
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"We don't go around the world extorting people for a partisan political endeavor," said Democratic Rep.
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Ms. Choi has been indicted on a charge of extorting large sums from South Korean companies.
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But we're also looking for other sources of their revenues, such as extorting the local population.
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The only way Ozuna is affected is that [Fret] was extorting him and police have the information.
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But could people also just be worried about simple corruption: government officials extorting them for pure profit?
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Instead, they kept her hostage for two days – all the while, extorting more money from her husband.
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The guerrillas persisted in extorting money from businesses, while the security forces kept encroaching on NPA territory.
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Prince Alwaleed is accused of money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, an official told Reuters on Sunday.
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We're told the person allegedly extorting Kevin has demanded payment from him to avoid the tape's release.
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At best, Mr. Trump is extorting our Saudi neighbors, milking them for money they do not have.
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Democrats have accused Trump of bribing and extorting Ukraine into conducting investigations that would help him politically.
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They leave these territories as failed states where everyone tries to benefit from extorting, stealing, and kidnapping.
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Allegations against Prince Alwaleed included money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, a Saudi official told Reuters in November.
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Ulyukayev was detained overnight and charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company.
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The group got organized -- extorting locals, robbing banks, aiming for ever larger attacks, and eventually declaring their caliphate.
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In Nova Iguaçu, a city that borders Duque de Caxias, militiamen recently started extorting money from taxi drivers.
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He bought the downtown property for redevelopment, even though criminals still controlled it, extorting rent from poor tenants.
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He was convicted of extorting racetrack owners of it before he were refusing to sign legislation for racetrack.
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He's proud to flout the norms of presidential behavior, possibly even to the point of extorting foreign leaders.
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Hart's former friend Jonathan Todd Jackson was arrested and charged with extortion, but has denied ever extorting Hart.
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Allegations against Prince Alwaleed included money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, a Saudi official told Reuters at the time.
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They were ordered to serve up to three years in jail while they are investigated for allegedly extorting MMG.
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"Smugglers also take advantage of children and their families by extorting them with threats and false promises," they said.
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Spitzer was cleared in the alleged Plaza attack, and Svetlana ended up getting charged with extorting Spitzer for $400k.
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She told the committee that the police had been extorting money from her husband, a small-time drug peddler.
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Mel B says Stephen and the nanny are extorting her over various sex tapes that they're hiding in storage.
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TMZ broke the story ... authorities are getting close to nabbing the people who tried extorting Hart for 7 figures.
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Shortly after he was born, I read the file of a gang leader we suspected of extorting other prisoners.
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Sánchez Cordero said cases have already been filed against immigration agents in Mexico City found to be extorting migrants.
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It crunches and stings, and then the heat of the raw chiles blooms, blindsiding, extorting a pause between mouthfuls.
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She hadn't planned to join him so soon, but in February, she said, Honduran gang members began extorting her.
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Andrej, a postman who reads other people's mail, starts extorting Josip over his affair with a woman from Zagreb.
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Its brigades already display factional flags, run several secret prisons and raise money by extorting bribes at gunpoint at checkpoints.
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He was convicted of extorting a children&aposs hospital for a $843,284 contribution in order to release money to them.
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The number of ransomware campaigns has grown exponentially in recent years, with cyber criminals extorting hundreds of millions from victims.
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The number of ransomware campaigns has grown exponentially in recent years, with cyber criminals extorting hundreds of millions from victims.
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The number of ransomware campaigns has grown exponentially in recent years, with cyber criminals extorting hundreds of millions from victims.
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All the stories I had heard — police officers harassing couples, extorting men, sexually assaulting women — went rushing through my mind.
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They generally expect workers on boards to be self-serving, blocking job-killing investments and extorting higher wages for themselves.
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"I want to make sure the president knows that his Department of Homeland Security is extorting other governments," Cuomo said.
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Colombia's civil war was raging and leftist rebels roamed the countryside, committing massacres and extorting money from local ranch hands.
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They also forced debts onto players, setting them up with cars and property, then extorting them once they moved abroad.
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Sheen says she's not only extorting him, but pressuring him by "stalking" his home and his father Martin Sheen's pad, too.
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And some gangs have even taken to extorting money from local governments by forcing them to sign inflated public works contracts.
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The gang has also grown more bold there, moving from targeting illicit businesses to extorting legitimate ones run by Central Americans.
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The newspapers uncovered a letter LaPierre reportedly wrote to the NRA's board accusing North of extorting him over financial wrongdoing allegations.
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The allegations against Prince Alwaleed include money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, a Saudi official told Reuters soon after his detention.
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Russia, where fire inspectors are notorious for extorting bribes, had the worst death rate of 41 countries covered by the study.
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He was, however, convicted in 2000 of extorting businesses that were applying for casino licenses and was sentenced to 10 years.
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Meanwhile, last year, the Hill reported that anonymous hackers were increasingly extorting businesses for money under threat of ruining their Yelp reputations.
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When he was 13, Romero said, he was forced to flee El Salvador after a local MS-13 clique began extorting him.
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TODD CHRISLEY ACCUSED OF EXTORTING DAUGHTER OVER SEX TAPEMILEY CYRUS & KAITLYNN CARTER RETURN TO L.A.NIPSEY HUSSLE'S STORE BARRICADED ON HIS 34TH BIRTHDAY
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Failure to pay the fees can land people in jail and lead to a cycle of extorting cash from already-struggling citizens.
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Last Thursday, in a long post on the website Medium, Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of extorting him with compromising photos.
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He soon won the convictions of six 77th Precinct officers accused of extorting money and drugs from narcotics dealers and staging burglaries.
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The Justice Department had also initially charged Mikerin with extorting kickbacks from Campbell after hiring him as a $50,000-a-month lobbyist.
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Mr. Ulyukayev was charged with extorting a large-scale bribe, Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia's Investigative Committee, said on state television.
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Airstrikes have forced the Taliban to lie low in rural areas, where they prefer to operate, seizing territory and extorting from locals.
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With know-how gained from extorting sectors including agriculture, transport and mining, drug gangs began applying their tried-and-true methods at refineries.
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Binary said that it was character assassination and that they were all false, that people were lying and extorting and many other things.
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This month a man was arrested in Delhi for extorting over 4003m rupees ($77,700) from 15 women by luring them on matrimonial websites.
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Gottwald has denied the abuse, saying Kesha is extorting him to get out of her contracts with Kemosabe Records, his label under Sony.
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Police had arrested Rojas and three of Fuerabamba's lawyers last week on allegations they organized the first blockade in hopes of extorting MMG.
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According to the FBI, his father—who was convicted for extorting local restaurants, grocery stores, and a medical clinic—was a Mogilevich boss.
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Every year, transnational criminal organizations make billions in profit by extorting innocent families and taking advantage of endless loopholes in U.S. immigration law.
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Federal prosecutors have charged him a slew of crimes, including extorting legal marijuana businesses for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash bribes.
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Smugglers are making millions of dollars by extorting migrants after sneaking them into the United States and shuttling them from house to house.
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Why do they still call us all ISIS, and why are they taxing us or extorting us and taking all of our money?
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Mr. Anglin told his followers that Ms. Gersh was extorting Ms. Spencer and encouraged them to write anti-Semitic messages to Ms. Gersh.
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Ulyukayev is on trial on charges of extorting a $2 million bribe from Sechin, in exchange for Ulyukayev's approval of a business deal.
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"Trump got away scot-free after extorting another country with our taxpayer money to help himself win an election," said Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday.
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The allegations against the men include money laundering, bribery, extorting officials and taking advantage of public office for personal gain, a Saudi official said.
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Various personas linked to Jha and his colleagues take responsibility for numerous attacks, the creation of the Mirai code, and extorting service providers worldwide.
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She still languishes behind bars after prosecutors charged her with extorting money from drug dealers when she was justice minister—a claim she denies.
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It was hoped that they would start behaving better as a result—and especially that they would stop extorting money from drivers at roadblocks.
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Some housewives have spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on their hosts, working extra jobs, economizing on groceries, or extorting their husbands.
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Prior to the Turkish incursion in early October, a Pentagon report indicated that ISIS was already beginning to regroup, committing assassinations and extorting civilians.
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Palacios said rebels in the area had stopped planting landmines, extorting locals and recruiting child soldiers under a unilateral ceasefire declared by the FARC.
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According to cops, they confronted Asrary and he confessed to extorting the girl and other victims around the country into sending him nude photos.
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Unfortunately, it has also drawn the attention of drug cartels, who have been extorting avocado growers, often charging them for every kilo they export.
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They have been raising money by carrying out kidnappings for ransom and extorting "taxes" from local officials, often skimming a cut of rebuilding contracts.
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The New York State Liquor Authority said he was suspected of extorting protection money from nightclubs and bars in Queens and on Long Island.
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One of the men in the gang who had been extorting him was also at his house and wearing the police force's black uniform.
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TMZ broke the story, Kevin says someone has tried extorting him for 7 figures over the video, which shows Kevin cozying up to a woman.
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The lawyer for Ozuna has denied rumors that the Latin reggaeton star had any role in the murder of the man accused of extorting him.
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By 2013, the SEA's methods had evolved into extorting money from hacking victims under threat of the group destroying or leaking information from compromised systems.
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A lawyer for Baptiste, Patricia Glaser of the law firm Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP, on Monday denied her client was extorting Goguen.
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"They established places to commit crime by extorting money from people over the phone," Uk Heisela, the head of the Cambodian police investigation, told reporters.
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The Society's first local business was in fruit and vegetables—for which they quickly became known for extorting farmers and charging market stallholders protection fees.
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The allegations against Prince Alwaleed, who owns 95 percent of Kingdom, include money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, a Saudi official has previously told Reuters.
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Some dissidents have set up splinter factions, like the Pacific guerrillas, who are already "taxing" local traffickers and extorting grocery stores and other small businesses.
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In both Iraq and Syria, ISIS is making money by kidnapping for ransom, extorting civilians, and skimming funds off rebuilding contracts in war-torn areas.
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The Houthis had shunned any attempts to negotiate and were diverting or extorting the aid that the international community was trying to inject via Hodeidah.
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Earlier this week, a lawsuit surfaced in which Mariah Carey alleged that her former personal assistant Lianna Shakhnazaryan was extorting her with secretly filmed videos.
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He was accused of extorting money from a City Hall official he called, threatening to post a record of their conversation online unless she paid.
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The company also took legal action against a YouTube user that was exploiting its copyright reporting system and extorting users for PayPal and Bitcoin payments.
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The minister, Alexei Ulyukayev, who denies extorting a $2 million bribe from oil giant Rosneft, had led the Kremlin's efforts to deepen cooperation with Tokyo.
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Sherry Spencer accused Gersh, who is Jewish, of "extorting" her as part of a larger backlash against her business and possible financial connections to her son.
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Special Prosecutor for Organised Crime Katica Janeva offered her resignation last month after local papers reported her alleged involvement in extorting well-known businessman Orce Kamcev.
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In 2010, he began running romance scams, extorting money from victims and using them to do menial tasks in other scams, such as opening bank accounts.
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Mangal Bagh leads Lashkar-i-Islam, a TTP ally involved in drug trafficking, smuggling and extorting "taxes" on trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the department added.
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Say someone is extorting using these methods from another country—such as Ivory Coast, Africa, where the victim I spoke to was asked to send money.
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In the film, William H. Macy's character, Jerry Lundegaard, hires some hitmen to kidnap his wife as a means of extorting his wealthy father-in-law.
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Despite targeting regular people, it doesn't seem to be made by people specifically interested in extorting victims with ransomware or stealing their credit cards and passwords.
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She acknowledged recruiting slaves for DOS and extorting them by demanding compromising material, like nude photos, that could be used as blackmail if they refused orders.
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More recently, the head of Russia's track and field federation received a lifetime ban from his sport for extorting athletes in return for covering up their doping.
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We will only stop Amazon and companies like it from extorting and exploiting other communities by going big, bold, and national in our fight against corporate power.
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Ms de Lima was charged by state prosecutors with extorting money from drug dealers when she was justice minister to pay for her campaign for the senate.
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"Can you ask a country where criminals continue killing, disappearing people, extorting, because official corruption has given them a free pass to impunity, to forget?" he wrote.
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NICKI MINAJ GOES OFF ON TWITTER ABOUT SEXISM IN HIP-HOP The young girl denied that anyone in her family was extorting Nicki Minaj for $25 million.
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According to reports, rogue Philippine police have in the past been accused of framing, extorting and murdering people under the cover of the recent anti-drug campaign.
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The reports revealed a letter LaPierre sent to the NRA board alleging that North was extorting him and pressuring him to resign over allegations of financial misdeeds.
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There are, it turns out, ways to do the wrong thing that go beyond the usual influence-peddling, bribing, extorting and other common varieties of Albany venality.
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The woman who tried extorting Kevin Hart with a 4 minute and 47 second video sweetened the images with Kevin Hart's own words about cheating and fidelity.
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Ray "exploited and abused young women and men emotionally, physically and sexually for his own financial gain," ultimately extorting approximately $1 million from five victims, Berman said.
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"They have to stop murdering citizens, extorting families, killing police, murdering soldiers," Vice President Óscar Ortiz told the local newspaper El Mundo in response the gang's overture.
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The Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, based in the southern Philippines, has carried out kidnappings in the region, beheading some hostages and extorting millions of dollars in ransoms.
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"I've asked them to try and stop killing, stop kidnapping and stop extorting people," Rangel said in a recent interview in a church in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital.
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What does a nearly four-decade-old news network gain by extorting a single person, one with (presumably) average means and no identifiable political power to speak of?
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RONALD STEENBLIKParis Your obituary of Herb Kelleher, the boss of Southwest Airlines, concluded that low-fare air travel has become synonymous with extorting charges from passengers (January 12th).
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But when It comes cyberstalkers using information gathered this way for malicious purposes, such as extorting victims for money, Chuvakin believes such schemes are of extremely limited use.
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"I'm legitimately surprised it took this long" for scammers to start extorting channels, Katharine Trendacosta, a policy analyst at digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Motherboard.
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The country's domestic politics were already in disarray after President Park Geun-hye was impeached and indicted for alleged corruption, with charges including accepting bribes and extorting businesses.
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In the past, flanelinhas have been accused of —and prosecuted for—extorting parkers, demanding exorbitant fees for free, public spaces, and slashing tires if motorists don't pay up.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Dozens of Chinese have been arrested in Cambodia on suspicion of extorting money from people in China via a telecoms scam, police said on Monday.
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Michael Avenatti is not lying low following his release from custody for allegedly extorting Nike -- instead, he's doubling down ... and throwing two huge basketball stars under the bus.
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Our introduction to both takes place in the front seat of a police car, where Erica is enthusiastically pleasuring the uniformed driver before extorting cash for her silence.
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The intent was to prevent companies from trying to bribe politicians for lucrative deals and to prevent lawmakers from extorting money from companies with business before the government.
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Rain Dove said that whether Mr. Bennett was extorting money and whether he had been sexually assaulted were separate issues, and that all victims of crime deserve justice.
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And it puts Italy, and Europe, in the role of hiring as gatekeepers the very people who profit from extorting, starving, selling into slavery, torturing and raping migrants.
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Mr. Cuomo also suggested again that the Trump administration was extorting the state, using the prohibition on New York applicants as leverage to find information on undocumented immigrants.
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Within months of the group's founding, a member who had started a small garage was gunned down for refusing to pay a local thug who was extorting him.
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They have become increasingly powerful in communities neglected by the state by extorting protection money from residents, operating unlicensed public transportation businesses and muscling into the drug trade.
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"The threat of arrest, detention and prosecution provide State officials with a powerful means of extorting money from a population struggling to survive," the U.N. rights office report said.
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"My enemy that I am trying to get has been making my life a living hell and extorting me for a year now," Budi allegedly told the uncover agent.
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The often cautious press vigorously pursued the allegations that Ms Park had divulged state secrets to a confidante and colluded with her in extorting large sums from private firms.
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The US Treasury Department has placed bitcoin addresses on its sanctions list for the first time after two Iranian hackers were charged with extorting millions of dollars through them.
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The official said billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the king and owner of investment firm Kingdom Holding , faces allegations of money laundering, bribery and extorting officials.
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The official said billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the king and owner of investment firm Kingdom Holding, faces allegations of money laundering, bribery and extorting officials.
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Europol said in a report last year that cyber crime is becoming a large business with criminals taking advantage of cloud infrastructure and often extorting their victims in bitcoin.
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On Tuesday, Avenatti tweeted his expectation and denial of the charges: Indictment for extorting Nike Indictment for defrauding Daniels: Go deeper: Timeline: The rise and fall of Michael Avenatti
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The Kim regime likely calculates that the decades-old cycle of provocations-negotiations-extorting concessions will work yet again against democratically elected leaders nearing the end of their terms.
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Sources connected to the case tell us that the man who handed the tape over to Avenatti is a whistle-blower who has a history of extorting R. Kelly.
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As luck would have it, there's a great Ars Technica piece today about how difficult it was to suss out the two investigators extorting their target behind the scenes.
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There are details in this film that do not make it into Hulu's, such as an unnamed person at the top of Fyre who was extorting Billy for cash.
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Political parties aligned themselves with various commanders, and with no army or police force to carry out their will, the elected officials became increasingly dependent on the fighters extorting them.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia on Thursday deported 74 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money from people there over the internet and by telephone, Cambodian police said.
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Alexander Valov, whose blog had been critical of the authorities in the southern Russian city of Sochi, was charged earlier this year with extorting money from federal lawmaker Yuri Napso.
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This drone company ripped off its Kickstarter backers, locksmiths are tricking Google Maps into recommending them and then extorting their customers, and online psychics are more legit than you think.
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They accused the two of extorting roughly $300,000 in payments from wealthy business executives who were dependent on the Long Island senator&aposs backing on legislation benefiting their financial interests.
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Authorities say the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA, for all their claims to ideological purity, have been involved in extorting money from major drug dealers in Ireland for years.
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In May, the trial started of nine men accused of extorting cash from a dozen stores in the city's central Via Maqueda, which were all run by foreigners, mainly Bangladeshis.
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So, ISIS has resorted to extorting money from those who live in its so-called Caliphate -- you know, the same place it's been touting as being this paradise for believers.
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Its monopoly had become so vast, the group had the weight to start extorting supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, charging them 2000 cents for every box of fruit and vegetables.
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"The threat of ransomware continues to grow due to the relatively availability of necessary tools, as well as the potential for extorting large sums of money," the FBI Flash reads.
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But he's also facing federal charges for allegedly running a fake scrap metal empire that involved setting up a blind man as the fall guy and extorting people at gunpoint.
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But he said that an extremely aggravating factor in the sentencing was that Hastert lied to federal agents about the money and falsely claimed that the victim was extorting him.
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Nothing better than the promise of new war crimes to take the world&aposs attention away from a little thing like extorting a US ally to help oneself get reelected.
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Human Right Watch said in its report that youth league members are extorting citizens for cash and food ranging in value from the equivalent of $1 to more than $500.
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"I mean, extorting a foreign leader for the purposes of getting that leader to do your political work, to try to find dirt on your opponent is extortion," he said.
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Viktor Sviridov, former head of the prison service's transportation department, had been accused of extorting 10 million roubles ($160,000) from the service's deputy head, Alexander Sapozhnikov, according to local media reports.
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Mel B has obtained a restraining order against the nanny she says was having sex with her husband, got pregnant by her husband, and is now extorting her with her husband.
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Dennis alleged that immigration authorities were extorting him, but he soon realized he was bamboozled by a scammer when Dr. Phil brought on the woman Dennis thought was his fiancée. 8.
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The hardline Islamists behind the rallies - led by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a group known for attacks on religious minorities and extorting money from nightclubs - were cultivated by Purnama's rivals.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia sent home on Thursday 74 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money from people there over the internet and by telephone, Cambodian police said.
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Hernandez was in the process of extorting one of the victims, and the FBI slipped the video into a Dropbox account he had provided for her to put her media into.
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And this is made even worse by corporations ducking out on paying their fair share of taxes through the use of "inversions" and extorting tax breaks from local and state governments.
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The root of "plagiarism" lies in the Latin plagium, defined in Roman law as the crime of kidnapping, specifically enslaving free citizens or seizing and extorting labor from someone else's slaves.
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She finds the link between them in the way money corrupts Timon's understanding of human relations, turning generosity into a kind of usury, extorting the interest of the idle well-born.
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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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We broke the story ... LuVisi allegedly tried extorting Alison for thousands of dollars by saying he had photos of her genitals and would send them to her husband unless she paid up.
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Elsewhere in "Donbass", for example, a businessman whom the militia are extorting is transferred to a holding room—where he finds a legion of other detainees pleading for help on their phones.
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PHNOM PENH, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Cambodia on Saturday deported 61 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money from people there over the internet and by phone, Cambodian police said.
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Photo: Getty Two lawyers were indicted yesterday on charges of fraudulently targeting internet users who illegally downloaded porn with copyright violation notices and extorting about $6 million dollars in phony settlement fees.
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"I do not think it's a good idea anywhere in this country to be throwing subsidies around to companies that don't need it because they're extorting us for their presence," Gianaris said.
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In September 2016, The Hindustan Times reported on "cloning" on social media, wherein scammers will impersonate users and befriend people they may know on Facebook, with the goal of ultimately extorting money.
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Todd Chrisley's estranged daughter hopes to someday patch things up with him -- despite claiming her dad recently tried extorting her with a sex tape -- with only one condition ... NO TV CAMERAS ALLOWED!!!
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Danielle Vasinova filed suit hours after Herjavec filed a lawsuit against her, claiming she tried extorting him for $20 million by making false claims in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
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As recently as 2014, dockworkers' union officials pleaded guilty to extorting money from their own members on behalf of the Genovese crime family, Mr. Arsenault said in an affidavit in the case.
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Kevin Hart is aggressively helping authorities nab the people who tried extorting him over that sexually charged video ... and TMZ has learned he's speaking with them today to tell them everything he knows.
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A number of splinter organizations formed out of the remnants of the once powerful cartel and their allies, one of which, Los Rojos, took control of Olinalá; extorting, murdering, and abducting at will.
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Netflix is very unhappy about this and would make clear that it felt internet providers were essentially extorting it by making the company pay for interconnect improvements, despite already paying once for delivery.
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Russian prosecutors accuse Alexei Ulyukayev of extorting a $2 million bribe from powerful political rival Sechin in exchange for approving a lucrative business deal in what turned out to be a sting operation.
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And last month, one Yelp user was sentenced to prison for writing falsely negative reviews — which he left in retaliation after getting a previous prison term for extorting the business with negative reviews.
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Sometimes, individuals celebrated for their anti-Mafia stance were found to have adopted the criminals' methods, such as the case of a leading Sicilian businessman convicted last year of extorting a €100,000 bribe.
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Longtime National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre told the group's board that its president, Oliver North, is extorting him, accusing North of trying to force his resignation over allegations of financial misdeeds.
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Ulyukayev was detained overnight and charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company, in a case that threatens to expose fault lines in President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.
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The police were cautious about identifying a motive in the killings, noting that members of the same vigilante group confessed to extorting money from Muslim cattle traders on at least three earlier occasions.
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Not only does the United States command an economy that is 10 times the size of Mexico's, but there is a blatant absurdity in extorting another country to pay for your own building.
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Todd Chrisley's daughter was at LAX Monday night when we asked her for an update on the situation with her family members, who she publicly accused of extorting her with a sex tape.
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Weinstein had a 'red flag' list, witness says The jury earlier heard from Sam Anson, an investigator for a firm called Guidepost Solutions, who testified Weinstein believed actress Rose McGowan was extorting him.
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Montia Sabbag spent 2 hours with law enforcement Monday and she fielded a slew of questions about who may have secretly recorded her sexual liaison with Kevin Hart and then tried extorting him.
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Dozens of royal family members, officials and business executives have been detained in the crackdown and are facing allegations of money laundering, bribery, extorting officials and taking advantage of public office for personal gain.
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But since Arthur is a hustler who'd rather be extorting Vikings for money than ruling the kingdom, it takes the persuasion, collaboration, and the teachings of the Mage before he can accept his duty.
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A Queens man was convicted on Tuesday of extorting thousands of dollars from three small businesses in Astoria in a protection racket he ran with the assistance of a New York City police officer.
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Four competing drug cartels are extorting avocado producers in Michoacán, Mexico, showing how the fruit is becoming an increasingly important source of illicit profits in the context of shifting criminal dynamics in the state.
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Amnesty International researcher Isa Sanusi said he had credible reports of "widespread" abuses by CJTF guards in Borno, including extorting money from refugees seeking access to camps or sexual favors in exchange for food.
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But officials say the group has approached self-sufficiency by extorting money from locals along with smuggling timber, drugs and raw earth material, such as lapis lazuli, mined in some of the eastern provinces.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) faced a leadership crisis at the group's annual meeting this week: its CEO Wayne LaPierre accused the organization's president, Oliver North, of pressuring him to resign and extorting him.
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Hence, Mexican organized crime has turned to extorting whoever does well in a given sector or taking over businesses directly – be that logging, mining, agriculture, public transport, or even mom and pop tortilla shops.
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Ms. Choi has been indicted on charges of extorting tens of millions of dollars from big businesses, and prosecutors have identified Ms. Park as a criminal accomplice, a first for a South Korean president.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia police on Saturday deported 61 Chinese nationals wanted in China on suspicion of extorting money over the internet and by phone, they said, but Taiwan said 19 were from Taiwan.
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The scandal engulfing Ms. Park's government involves a longtime friend and secretive adviser, Choi Soon-sil, who has been charged with extorting the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars from South Korean businesses.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Other suspects may appear in a criminal case in which investigators have charged Russia's former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev with extorting a $2 million bribe, unnamed sources told Russian news agencies on Wednesday.
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The sheriff's statement on Asrary's apprehension alleges he not only confessed to extorting the then-9-year-old victim for sexual images and videos, but further implicated himself in several similar crimes around the country.
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In addition to individual defamation suits like the one above, aggrieved Yelp users have unsuccessfully sued the company for alleged offenses like extorting businesses with review scores and inflating stock prices by exaggerating its reliability.
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Stephen Belafonte went to the LAPD several days ago and told cops a former girlfriend was extorting him ... threatening to make up stories he abused her, unless he paid her a large sum of cash.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched a sweeping anti-graft crackdown last November, arresting dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen accused of crimes such as money laundering, bribing and extorting officials.
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"Treasury is targeting digital currency exchangers who have enabled Iranian cyberactors to profit from extorting digital ransom payments from their victims," said Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker in a statement.
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A grand jury last week indicted six detectives and a sergeant on charges of extorting money and robbing residents, filing false court paperwork and making false overtime claims, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland said.
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That was evident this week in Coatzacoalcos, an oil industry city in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz where residents say gangs have been fighting over turf and extorting business owners with threats of violence.
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Hastert initially said that he made the withdrawals because he mistrusted the banking system, then told the FBI that Individual A was extorting him over false allegations of misconduct, which he now acknowledges was untrue.
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Law enforcement agencies in two states have filed child pornography and extortion charges against Bryan Asrary, who allegedly confessed to extorting a California girl via social media in order to obtain the sexual images and videos.
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Kevin Hart once had a fun guys' night out on the town with J.T. "Action" Jackson -- the guy charged with extorting Kevin in the sex tape case -- and a TMZ photog captured the whole hilarious scene.
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Although cells operate mostly in rural areas, burning crops and extorting local farmers, in February, two people were killed and 29 wounded when a car bomb went off in Mosul, once the group's capital in Iraq.
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Apple said it was already paying royalties to Nokia for certain technologies used in its products, but that the Finnish firm transferred some patents to third-parties in order "to be used for extorting excessive royalties".
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The 27-year old mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, was arrested Friday morning and charged with a slew of crimes, including extorting legal marijuana businesses for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, federal prosecutors said.
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The group was thrust into 24 hours of chaos after multiple reports emerged that LaPierre sent a letter to the NRA board accusing North of extorting him and pressuring him to resign over alleged financial impropriety.
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In 2020, with a president openly extorting foreign powers to investigate his political opponents — and a Republican Senate that appears set to let him off the hook — our democracy will live or die by these margins.
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But one of the suspected SEA members seemingly ditched that ideology, and started hacking and extorting several companies for tens of thousands of euros, and another hacker in Germany helped launder the proceeds back into Syria.
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Though the president will almost certainly be impeached for extorting Ukraine to aid his re-election, he is equally certain to be acquitted in the Senate, a tacit confirmation that he is, indeed, above the law.
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Paul Michel, a former top judge on America's patent court, attributes them to an "unco-ordinated overcorrection" to the plague of patent trolls, who accumulate patent rights with an eye to extorting payments from supposed infringers.
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But he was not, apparently, better at obeying the law: In 13, he was convicted of extorting about $3 million out of companies seeking casino licenses, and he served eight years of a 10-year sentence.
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The goal is to so enamor the police of their civic responsibility that they will decide to refuse the money they could make extorting civilians or aiding drug gangs, as is common in much of Mexico.
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Valov was accused of extorting 300,000 rubles ($4,330) from Napso, allegedly in exchange for deleting blog posts about a private swimming pool allegedly built by the lawmaker on a municipal beach in the Black Sea resort city.
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Padma Lakshmi, the host of hit cooking show Top Chef, took the stand this week and testified against the four men from Boston Teamsters Local 25 accused of harassing and extorting the Top Chef crew for jobs.
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Photo: GettyAn Argentine man who advertised services to help lonely victims find love using witchcraft and spells before extorting them over sexually explicit videos was sentenced this week to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft said on Wednesday ex-economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev, charged with extorting a bribe from the company, had himself come to a meeting in Rosneft's office and left it with cash.
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No administration—least of all the Trump administration, which is extorting host nations in the region for support payments—will find it easy to convince allies that they should agree to host American missiles on their soil.
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Jeff Bezos in a court filing on Monday accused Michael Sanchez, the brother of his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, of extorting him via a defamation suit dealing with leaked nude photos of Bezos sent to the National Inquirer.
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Five hundred years before Twitter, the most feared troll in Italy was Pietro Aretino, a satirist, pornographer, playwright and blackmail artist adept at extorting money and favors from nobles and cardinals with the power of his pen.
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The coercion charge against Ms. Park stems from $653 million she and a longtime confidante, Choi Soon-sil, were accused of extorting from big businesses in the form of "donations" to two foundations that Ms. Choi controlled.
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The allegations against Ms. Park are unique in their colorful details — a mysterious adviser, Choi Soon-sil, is suspected of having secretly influenced Ms. Park's public speeches and decision-making while also extorting millions from major corporations.
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Ms. Park was identified as a criminal accomplice in November, when state prosecutors indicted Ms. Choi on charges of extorting tens of millions of dollars from Samsung and other chaebol by leveraging her connections with the president.
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American officials say the main source of revenue for the Libya branch is taxation and extorting fees from residents who live or businesses that operate in the 150-mile swath of territory they control in and around Surt.
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They created a compelling narrative that these trolls were extorting huge sums of money from hard working U.S. companies, including main-street mom and pop businesses, and that their actions threatened the very fabric of the nation's economy.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti's legal troubles escalated on Wednesday as federal prosecutors announced new indictments accusing the lawyer and prominent critic of U.S. President Donald Trump of ripping off porn star Stormy Daniels and extorting Nike Inc.
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All four of the Tripoli militias have profited by extorting protection money from banks and government ministries, according to United Nations experts and an authoritative study by Wolfram Lacher of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
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"It was a difficult decision for the whole family, but we had no other choice: the Taliban were extorting us," he said, a sense of resignation in his voice, on why he allowed his youngest son to join.
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MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft said on Wednesday ex-economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev, charged with extorting a bribe from the company, had himself come to a meeting in Rosneft's office and left it with cash.
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One group called Mara Salvatrucha and two factions of another, Barrio 2591, have carved up much of the country into zones over which they rule and from which they extract profit—mainly by extorting money from businesses and residents.
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" The company also hit back at the lawyer in Vaughn's case, saying they had "long track record of extorting money for meritless claims and using the threat of media attacks and expensive trial costs to get companies to settle.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former senior Kenyan athletics official David Okeyo, who was last week banned from the sport for life for siphoning sponsorship funds, has been cleared a extorting money from athletes in exchange for lighter sentences in doping cases.
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"Shark Tank" star Robert Herjavec says an ex-girlfriend of his is trying to exploit the Harvey Weinstein/Hollywood sexual harassment scandal by extorting him for millions of dollars over what he says are false claims of sexual assault.
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" I suppose he meant to say, "Only we here at the Justice Department do the extorting, with special counsels, daylight raids of people's attorneys, bankrupting people with legal fees, threats to prosecute family members, and questionable wiretapping of Americans.
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Earlier Tuesday, Cosby's lawyer opened the defense's case by portraying Constand as a "con artist" bent on extorting money from the famed comedian, saying she concocted a false story to pay for her education and set up a business.
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At some point, though, either the sports channels or the leagues themselves are going to decide that they can make more money by selling their services directly to viewers than by extorting the cable companies for the biggest payoffs.
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Cox has seen the group evolve from its early days of extorting US medical centres, right up to its current campaign around the 9/11 documents, and how The Dark Overlord has adapted its strategy, and brazenness, over time.
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"The Iranian Government targeted and arrested Jason Rezaian, subjected him to torture and other cruel treatment, and held him hostage for the unlawful purpose of extorting concessions from the U.S. Government and others," the lawsuit by Mr. Rezaian asserted.
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The Taliban have also been allowed to raise millions more by extorting "taxes" by pressing hundreds of thousands of Pashtun guest workers in the kingdom and menacing their families back home, said Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser.
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Even if they wanted to, service providers would have a hard time extorting money from huge companies like Google and Netflix, because each service provider needs Google and its billions of users a lot more than Google needs it.
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Football Leaks, a website that has been in the news recently for what it claims is an attempt to increase "transparency in the world of football," is also not opposed to extorting a bit of a profit out of their efforts.
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A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit by Chicago-based law firm Edelson accusing three lawyers of extorting money from class action counsel across the country by filing objections to settlements and demanding payments to drop their challenges.
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"Botched" star Dr. Terry Dubrow and "Real Housewives of Orange County" star Heather Dubrow are being sued for allegedly extorting a lawyer ... threatening to blast him on social media if he didn't make good on a business deal gone bad.
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In the streaming service's new movie, real-life famed Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (Melissa Leo), her son, and her granddaughter are all taken prisoner by a former employee named David Waters (Josh Lucas), who plans on extorting $1 million from them.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday called off next week's trial of two members of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's administration accused of extorting a music festival production company into using union labor after a court ruling jeopardized the prosecution's case.
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The survey, by the International City/County Management Association and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, found that extorting ransom was the most common purpose of cyberattacks on city or county governments, accounting for nearly one-third of all attacks.
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Both Jha and White operated the Mirai botnet, which amassed more than 300,000 devices, according to the court documents, with the goal of making money by renting the botnet out to other hackers, and extorting the victims of their cyberattacks.
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Mr. Serrano, who had previously been a state assemblyman, was first elected to Congress in 1990 in a special election to fill the seat of Representative Robert Garcia, who was convicted of extorting money from Wedtech, a Bronx military contractor.
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Mel B claims estranged husband Stephen Belafonte was a monster, brutally beating her, extorting her into doing 3-ways with other women and threatening to release sex tapes ... and now she says she and her children fear for their lives.
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Lawrence Ray "exploited and abused young women and men emotionally, physically and sexually for his own financial gain," ultimately extorting approximately $1 million from five victims, Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Tuesday.
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Bernie and Elizabeth and others are advocates of single-payer healthcare, but in the context of maintaining the privately owned healthcare system in the United States, which is one of the most horrendous, profit-making, extorting systems in the world.
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Can you think of any reason on God&aposs green earth that Barack Obama, Hillary, putting aside all the evidence that we now know they had, that Vladimir Putin had agents in America bribing, extorting, money laundering, racketeering, they knew in 2009.
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The gang published false news and fabricated information with the aim of extorting Lebanese banks, claiming their ownership of deeds of assets to the value of millions of U.S. dollars, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, the head of General Security, said in Beirut.
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When investigators listened to calls between Mr. Hastert and the man he claimed was extorting him, they said they detected no threats and instead came to believe that Mr. Hastert was making payments on an agreed-to settlement of up to $3.5 million.
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MOSCOW — A Russian military court on Monday handed down harsh sentences of up to 103 years to seven members of a group of left-wing activists, who in turn accused the authorities of extorting confessions through torture and threats against their families.
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This lack of knowledge on the part of the Ukrainians at the time of the call, he argued, meant it would not have been possible for Trump to be extorting them to open an investigation into the Bidens in exchange for the aid.
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Prosecutors have evidence on how high-profile officials at the finance ministry shared their illegal profits when they led the so-called VAT mafia, a group of people who made money on extorting VAT tax from the state, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported.
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Out of a combination of personal pique (Netanyahu fired him) and his more principled opposition to the ultra-Orthodox parties extorting particularistic benefits from past governments, Liberman has refused to serve in a government with his otherwise natural partners on the right.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - "Top Chef" TV show host Padma Lakshmi appeared in federal court in Boston on Monday, and testified she was "terrified" after a member of the Teamsters union, accused of extorting the show's production company for jobs, appeared to threaten her in 2014.
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Their argument was simple: the towns and their utilities services take their orders from the religious leaders of the FLDS and discriminate against gentiles (non-members) and apostates (ex-members) by withholding utilities from, extorting, and harassing those who are not of the FLDS faith.
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Civilian uprisings made headlines in 2013 and 2014, when self-defense groups took up arms in what they saw as an absence of adequate state protection to defend themselves against the violent, repressive drug cartels who were extorting, raping, pillaging and killing local people.
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But the authorities eventually implicated the Brotherhood in monopolizing drug dealing, gambling, extortion, prostitution and other prison rackets, as well as murdering guards and rivals, fomenting racial warfare among prisoners, recruiting ex-convicts as accessories and even extorting tribute from John Gotti, the Mafia boss.
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Not long after, his lawyer told the investigators a different story: The lawyer said that Mr. Hastert was paying large sums — and promising as much as $3.5 million, the authorities say — to Individual A because Individual A was extorting him for false allegations of abuse.
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Former members of al-Shabaab and Somali intelligence agents said the terror group is extorting thousands of dollars per day through road blocks and taxes on merchants attempting to transport food and supplies to sell to internally displaced people in towns where they are concentrated.
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SEOUL, South Korea — President Park Geun-hye acted as a criminal accomplice for her longtime friend in extorting tens of millions of dollars from businesses, prosecutors said on Sunday, dealing another blow to the South Korean leader, who faced a nationwide call to step down.
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This strategy has drawn criticism from humanitarian groups that point to the dire conditions inside state detention centers, where Mignone said some 6,000 now are held, and in the much more numerous "camps" where smugglers hold migrants, often extorting them or forcing them to labor for free.
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NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - Attorney Michael Avenatti, who represented adult film star Stormy Daniels in her legal battles against U.S. President Donald Trump, has been charged with extorting more than $20 million from Nike, according to a criminal complaint filed by federal authorities in New York.
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According to Chea, the head of Pride of the Khmer, after Taing had reported some villagers to the forest ministry for logging, the villagers reported him for extorting "about 10,000 or 20,000 riel," or about $2 to $5, for which he spent six months in prison.
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The former governor of Córdoba was cooperating with the federal authorities and had agreed to wear a wire during meetings with the prosecutor and a middleman who the former governor said were extorting him, according to the indictment unsealed Tuesday in United States District Court in Miami.
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The US attorney's offices in the Southern District of New York and the Central District of California have charged Avenatti with a plethora of financial crimes that carry years of potential prison time, including charges of extorting Nike and multiple criminal counts related to alleged financial crimes.
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Mr. Ulyukayev was charged with extorting a $2 million bribe from Rosneft, the state oil giant, as a thank-you for endorsing a deal for it to buy a chunk of Bashneft, a smaller, government-owned oil company that the Kremlin recently confiscated from an oligarch.
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In 2005, Thomas Gioeli, the Colombo's acting boss, elevated him to underboss, according to the F.B.I. With the law-enforcement spotlight again on Mr. Franzese in 2011, he was convicted on federal charges of extorting protection payments from two Manhattan strip clubs and a Long Island pizzeria.
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In December 1972, the commission found that corruption — from accepting gratuities to extorting drug dealers — was widespread in the police force, but that the department's top officials had done little about the problem after being alerted to it by the whistle-blowers and The Times's reporting.
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Kurt Rappaport, the mega-realtor who claims his estranged wife is extorting him for millions and threatened to ruin his life if he doesn't pay up ... allegedly got into a heated argument over having children, and that's what ended the marriage ... this according to estranged wife Sarah Mutch.
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Her anger feels a bit forced in some of these situations — even Tara points out that maybe Rosita should "save some of this for them," as in maybe direct her anger at the people actually extorting them for food and supplies and bludgeoning people to death with baseball bats.
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Speaking in court at the beginning of his trial, Ulyukayev said Sechin had made false allegations to the Federal Security Service, or FSB, that he was extorting a bribe, and then tricked him into coming to the meeting at Rosneft's headquarters on the banks of the Moskva river.
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The US attorney's offices in the Southern District of New York and the Central District of California charged him with a plethora of financial crimes that carry more than 203 years of potential prison time, including charges of extorting Nike and 36 criminal counts related to alleged financial crimes.
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Lawyers Accused of Extorting $6 Million From Porn Pirates in Elaborate ScamTwo lawyers were indicted yesterday on charges of fraudulently targeting internet users who…Read more ReadThe details of the case are worth paying attention to, just in case you ever find yourself the victim of this kind of plot.
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The allegations against Prince Alwaleed include money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, one official told Reuters, while Prince Miteb is accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own companies including a $10 billion deal for walkie talkies and bulletproof military gear worth billions of Saudi riyals.
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"They deliberately engaged in an extreme form of 21st-century digital blackmail, attacking and extorting vulnerable victims like hospitals and schools, victims they knew would be willing and able to pay," Brian Benczkowski, the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department, said in a news conference on Wednesday.
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If the purpose of Trump's freeze on military aid to Ukraine was of a personal nature, such as extorting the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on a political rival, Schiff said it would clearly amount to the "high crimes and misdemeanors" foreseen by Hamilton and the other founding fathers.
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The popular uprising against Ms. Park reflected more than indignation over the bribes she is accused of extorting with a shadowy confidante, Choi Soon-sil; it was a demand to end the cozy and sometimes collusive relationship between government and the family-controlled conglomerates that has dominated the economy for decades.
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The hackers behind the scheme "deliberately engaged in an extreme form of 21st-century digital blackmail, attacking and extorting vulnerable victims like hospitals and schools, victims they knew would be willing and able to pay," Brian Benczkowski, the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department, said in November.
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In the complaint obtained by PEOPLE, the Shark Tank star alleges Danielle Vasinova, whom he dated on and off from January 2014 to February 2015, is trying to exploit the sexual harassment scandal rippling through Hollywood by extorting him for millions of dollars over what he says are false claims of sexual assault.
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In November, the World Anti-Doping Agency identified Dr. Rodchenkov as the linchpin in what it described as an extensive state-sponsored doping program in Russia, accusing him of extorting money from athletes — the only accusation he denies — as well as covering up positive drug tests and destroying hundreds of urine samples.
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When the agent asked why Ms. Sylvia wanted to do this, she told him the man had been extorting money from her for years because he "ended up with some stuff on me that he was gonna report me to the licensing board, which means I have no job," the criminal complaint said.
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Carmine dropped out of high school at 16 and became known to the police as the leader of the Garfield Boys, a street gang that brandished knives, clubs and zip guns — primitive single-round weapons often secretly constructed in high school shops — in battles with rival gangs and in extorting money from teenagers.
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On Track and Field There have been many doping scandals, too many, but if allegations about the demanding and extorting of bribes to cover up test results are true, track and field's former leader Lamine Diack and his minions and relations took the category to a new level of low by corrupting from the top.
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An investigation by the Associated Press last year showed that from 2008 to 2014, around 1,000 officers lost their badges for sexual misconduct: 550 officers were decertified for sexual assault, including extorting civilians for sex to avoid arrest; 440 other officers lost their certification for other sex offenses, including child pornography, sexting juveniles, or having sex while on duty.
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Beyond the bribes, Correia has been accused of extorting a building owner for cash and a Rolex watch in exchange for activating the water supply to a commercial building, and demanding that his chief of staff give him half of her salary in return for appointing her and allowing her to keep her city job, according to prosecutors.
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With the lonely exception of Mitt Romney, who voted to convict Mr. Trump of abuse of power, all Republican senators voted to acquit Mr. Trump of extorting a foreign government in an effort to rig the 2020 election, and then obstructing Congress's efforts to investigate him — the charges contained in the two articles of impeachment approved by the House of Representatives in December.
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Mr. Walton emerged as the public face of the F.B.I. in notorious cases that included the 1981 robbery of a Brink's armored car in Rockland County, N.Y., the arrest in 1982 of a fugitive in Manhattan for extorting $1 million from Johnson & Johnson in the Tylenol poisoning scare and the government's offensive against the Mafia after Rudolph W. Giuliani became the federal prosecutor in Manhattan.
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On the meeting's sidelines, President Obama spoke with Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, about Syria, where the last few hospitals in the rebel-held area of Aleppo have been forced to stop providing care.. _____ • South Korea's political crisis escalated sharply after prosecutors named President Park Geun-hye a "criminal suspect," saying she acted as an accomplice to her longtime adviser in extorting tens of millions of dollars.
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The latest scandal surrounding President Trump and his dealings with Ukraine is, for this reason, a godsend for the Kremlin: The son of an American presidential candidate is suspected of using his father's reputation to get himself a $50,000-a-month job at a Ukrainian gas company; the president of the United States is accused of acting like a geopolitical gangster, extorting kompromat about a political rival.
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The alleged scheme involved a scrap-metal-dealer co-conspirator; the sale to foreign customers of shipments of scrap metal that turned out to contain mostly concrete blocks; a blind client of Luthmann's whose identity the conspirators used in order to set up bank accounts and launder almost half a million dollars obtained by this fraud; and the later kidnapping of the scrap-metal dealer for the purposes of extorting an extra ten thousand dollars from him at gunpoint.
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Todd Chrisley has more drama on his plate -- his daughter ran to cops a month before he was indicted on tax fraud charges, claiming he tried extorting her with a sex tape to get her to lie ... but Todd claims BS. Here's the situation ... Todd's daughter, Lindsie -- who's estranged from the fam -- filed a police report last month in Georgia, alleging her brother, Chase, and her father were harassing her and threatening her with a sex tape of hers she believed Chase purchased.
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The ongoing Russian affair is a morass of bribery and deceit: top Russian sports, anti-doping, and state security officials lying to WADA about some positive drug tests, and breaking into supposedly tamper-proof bottles to cover up others; senior officials from the governing bodies of world and Russian track and field extorting hush money from athletes to cover up PED use; French police investigating the head of track and field's world governing body, Lamine Diack, his advisor, and the organization's former doping chief on suspicion of accepting more than one million euros to do the same; and a report that Diack's organization, the IOC, and even WADA all either ignored or declined to act on evidence of systemic Russian doping presented to them in 2003.
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