This is an investigation looking into a possible extortionate demand.
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I love getting charged extortionate fees for using my phone abroad!
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"It's affordable, it's not extortionate," said Lisa Ashford, CEO of Ethex.
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Government subsidies were modest; consumers paid for the system through extortionate prices.
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The Airbnb figures do not spell the end of extortionate hotel prices.
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High tax rates can cause problems, even when they are not extortionate.
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Rents are extortionate in the cities people most want to move to.
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In short, he attempted an extortionate quid pro quo, right out in public.
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None of them have any idea that they will owe these extortionate amounts.
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The menu was pretentious, and the prices — such as $72 for a salad — were extortionate.
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As populations grow, making land scarce, landlords jack up rents and lend at extortionate rates.
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For this reason, contracts and stand-alone prices are perceived by many to be extortionate.
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Many of the sites also offer personalized counseling over email for extortionate amounts of money.
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Instead, Avenatti used illegal and extortionate threats for the purpose of obtaining in payments for himself.
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Monopolies When most people think about antitrust, they picture big monopolies abusing consumers with extortionate prices.
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Aside from the extortionate $26 entrance fee, the gigantic alabaster eyesore employed a no phones policy.
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The bar on extortionate fees has roots in the 1689 Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta.
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" Bezos said the statement AMI was proposing was false and described the offer as an "extortionate proposal.
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It's worth remembering, though, that a lot of records just sit at extortionate prices without ever selling.
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Each entity should build scalable, internal and external response teams experienced in responding to extortionate malware attacks.
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" Bezos said the statement AMI was proposing was false and described the offer as an "extortionate proposal.
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European and American cities are becoming less racially segregated due to suburban sprawl, extortionate house prices and immigrants.
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From $329 Hotels that pretend to be dog friendly yet charge extortionate fees are my literal pet peeve.
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Sellers have tried to take advantage, charging extortionate prices for items such as hand sanitizer and toilet roll.
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Now, one researcher says he found an incredible screw-up, worth $30,000, but then received extortionate threats from DJI.
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Equally, his pet peeve is when already expensive hotels charge extortionate prices for everything else like food and activities.
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The purpose, Epstein alleged, was "to defraud investors and support extortionate demands for payment from Epstein," the complaint says.
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The alternative is escape, which brings with it the risk of being shot or having to pay an extortionate bribe.
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With extortionate property prices pushing many restaurateurs out of London's Chinatown, even long-established venues are being forced to adapt.
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They're willing to pay extortionate amounts for a tour ticket scheme, for instance, even when said tour isn't selling out.
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Fresh bread was "sporadically available at an extortionate cost" in Daraya, 30 times above the market price in nearby Damascus.
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When you go to the market and you have a lot of money, the demands made of you are extortionate.
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Once in China, defectors must rely on smugglers who charge extortionate rates to evade Chinese security and North Korean agents.
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Tiny apartments are an obvious way to reduce the extortionate cost of living in Silicon Valley, but there are other solutions.
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Other times, they're all but unavoidable, as with smartphones (with their expensive data plans) and printers (with their extortionate ink refills).
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In late November, the businessmen connected to the regime brought in a new contingent of supplies at their usual extortionate rates.
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But divorce, it seems, would make the (extortionate) price of renting a marquee and buying 50 bottles of prosecco look cheap.
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Mesri has been charged with wire fraud, four counts of computer fraud, interstate transmission of an extortionate communication, and aggravated identity theft.
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The one I've found is amazing and not completely extortionate, the only problem is that the office is down in South London.
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Yet, the bill collecting hounds try to collect extortionate prices from the underinsured while the insured pay far less through their insurance.
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I was being given the exact same documents for every investment, and being charged extortionate fees for a process that takes months.
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Few young people have been able to afford the area's extortionate rent for years, and it's an expensive area to hang out.
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If I managed to lower their confidence to startling levels, they would be less inclined to fight back against my extortionate bets.
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And then on the heels of that discovery he tweets out this extortionate demand that New York drop its lawsuits against him.
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"O'Reilly portrayed himself as a 'target' and claimed that complaints against him are extortionate," the lawsuit reads, as reported by the Times.
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Informal institutions like community banks and microfinance lenders are more common, but they rarely share credit information and often charge extortionate interest rates.
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Britain's disrespect for education is inflicted on its students, who pay extortionate amounts for the self-professed gold-standard of a British university.
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Cieszkowski has instead made up a false story about the encounter and refused to move on unless Baldwin succumbs to his extortionate demands.
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ET. The ban -- which only applies to foreign nationals, not American citizens -- has triggered widespread confusion, extortionate re-booking fees and frantic Googling.
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How can the request of "a favor" from the American President to such a country be understood as anything but an extortionate demand?
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The president should also renew his call for congressional passage of patent-reform legislation to curb the extortionate abuses of patent-assertion entities.
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British foreign secretary Boris Johnson, a leading Brexit advocate, said last month the EU could "go whistle" if it made "extortionate" demands for payment.
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The indictment says they trafficked drugs across state lines, protected other clique members from law enforcement, and collected extortionate rent from local business owners.
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Like most people he knows, he is working off a perpetual debt incurred by money borrowed at extortionate rates for food, fuel and equipment.
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For Charlotte, it's not just the extortionate ticket price that stops Morrissey from being an option, but also his very questionable politics these days.
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I listened to an African-American entrepreneur in Nevada tell me he could only get bank financing for his venture at an extortionate rate.
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"Brady's extortionate and harassing activities described here may, at least in part, be motivated by his failings in his Minecraft interactions," the lawsuit reads.
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Air-traffic services can charge extortionate prices whether or not they are in public hands, notes Kenny Jacobs of Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier.
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"For more than two years, Ms. Travis made a series of unrelenting threats and false statements as part of an extortionate scheme," Mr. Kaufmann said.
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It's allowed me to skip congested airline customer service counters and avoid extortionate airport hotel prices when waves of sudden cancellations trigger huge price spikes.
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Usually, they are hated for charging people with life-threatening allergies extortionate amounts of money for the only drug on the market that can help them.
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Nor have Putin and his surrogates been especially subtle in their extortionate attempts to use this gratuitous proscription as leverage for dismantling of the Magnitsky Act.
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When that extortionate hacking goes beyond encrypting files to fully paralyze computers across a company, it represents not just a mere shakedown, but a crippling disruption.
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Product makers accuse patent owners of threatening lawsuits and using the expense of the legal process in order to demand extortionate royalties for their patent rights.
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Igor Rotenberg owns 50 percent of a company that collects tolls from Russian truckers, who protested in vain in 2015 over what they denounced as extortionate fees.
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For those use cases, you'll want Apple's keyboard-less Smart Folio, which sells for an extortionate $79 or $99, depending on the size of your iPad Pro.
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Specifically, that high-street agents offer average service and charge extortionate fees, while online agents typically charge low fees but offer a worse service as a result.
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Chiquita's lawyers at Covington & Burling and Jones Foster Johnston & Stubbs argued that there's no evidence supporting claims that Chiquita did anything but give in to FARC's extortionate demands.
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Legend has it, according to a museum guide, that the phone line used to be live until a French tourist called home and ran up an extortionate bill.
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They also blame the oligopolistic dominance of tycoons such as Li for social ills including a gaping wealth gap, extensive harbor reclamation, heritage demolition and extortionate property prices.
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The Amazon CEO has penned a now-immortal Medium post — "No thank you, Mr. Pecker" — describing what he calls an "extortionate proposal" by executives from American Media Inc.
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Rohingya are especially vulnerable to human traffickers, who for years have preyed on their desperation and charged extortionate fees for transport through Thailand and by sea, primarily to Malaysia.
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She allegedly made extortionate threats to stalk Shivers and defame him as a stalker if he went through with the divorce filing rather than get back together with her.
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The average teacher's salary in California is around $213,260, which is 20110% more than in Texas, but that does not stretch far because of the extortionate cost of living.
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Carriers might have ruined it by charging extortionate prices for years, but I miss SMS for how it "just worked" and was a single, reliable destination to message anyone.
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"Let's see the case be made, with full debate, on whether the zealots and toadies can justify repealing a rule to protect consumers against extortionate payday loans," Cordray said.
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He drives a rusty Subaru, which he parks on the streets surrounding the lab, declining to pay what he views as the "extortionate" fee for the med-school lots.
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"Let's see the case be made, with full debate, on whether the zealots and toadies can justify repealing a rule to protect consumers against extortionate payday loans," Cordray continued.
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Extortionate real-estate commissions are hardly the only problem—wealthy cities such as San Francisco need to build new housing if people are to move to better-paying jobs there.
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During her testimony last month, Padilla called Jacobs' demands at the time "extortionate," though Alsup questioned why a company would pay anyone millions of dollars to simply make claims go away.
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Because such "disparate impact" discrimination claims are nearly always brought as class-action lawsuits, they can easily be used to force employers to pay extortionate settlements rather than risk ruinous liability.
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"Let's see the case be made, with full debate, on whether the zealots and toadies can justify repealing a rule to protect consumers against extortionate payday loans," Cordray said in January.
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"The fact that this was a multistep malicious intrusion, a downloading of data, and extortionate demands means this wasn't consistent with the way that [the bug bounty] program normally operates," Flynn testified.
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Huawei on Monday hit back at claims by an inventor that it stole his patented technology, saying he has pushed a false narrative to the media and demanded an "extortionate" cash payment.
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Americans rushed to airports, paid extortionate prices for last-minute flights, and, worst of all, created large crowds in enclosed spaces — exactly what we're supposed to be avoiding during the coronavirus pandemic.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The sums of money the European Union is to demand from Britain as part of its Brexit settlement "seem to be extortionate", British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
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The extortionate capital city rents—and the fact six of the eight members were living in the same house—meant Orono slept on sofa in the living room for the first few months.
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The desperate father told CNN he had little choice but to borrow money from a loan shark who charged him extortionate rates of interest to pay her doctor's fees, priced in US dollars.
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But that growth has come with a number of high-profile pitfalls, ranging from sellers who ship out expired food, sell toxic skincare products, or take advantage of customers with extortionate shipping fees.
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The low prices make other outlets seem extortionate, so you load up your trolley with impulse buys—a clock, a bin, storage boxes, tools, lampshades and more tea lights than you will ever use.
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In 2009, after Hurriyet aired corruption allegations against a religious charity close to Mr Erdogan's government, the finance ministry slapped the group with an extortionate tax fine of $2.5bn (later reduced to about $600m).
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Since October, 70,000 Rohingya have fled across the narrow stretch of the Bay of Bengal to Bangladesh—they pay extortionate bribes to smugglers, or some try to paddle themselves across on floating plastic containers.
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For all of the assertions that plaintiffs' lawyers are raking in money from "extortionate" ADA website suits (the Robles brief actually uses that word), these cases are about the civil rights of disabled plaintiffs.
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Trolls often aggressively push for extortionate settlements that far surpass the value of the IP because they know many companies will choose to settle rather than get embroiled in an expensive and drawn-out lawsuit.
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Not many artists go as far as to file trademark applications for lyrics or song titles; the process is expensive and the cost of filing many applications for many lyrics and titles would be extortionate.
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This despite the lower fees I paid, and the total absence of broader education that my colleagues—most of whom had to shell out for extortionate MAs—were required to bring to their application forms.
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Here is the slightly longer version: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has penned a now-immortal Medium post — "No thank you, Mr. Pecker" — describing what he calls an "extortionate proposal" by executives from American Media Inc.
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Although the tale of a Florida man billed $85033,400 for coronavirus test may have been misreported, the broader fear that patients will be billed extortionate amounts at hospitals by out-of-network providers is real.
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Criminal gangs can charge them extortionate prices for onward travel or exploit them for cheap labor with little fear of repercussions — the children have no system in place or relatives nearby who can protect them.
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The developers of the game seem to be just as excited as the players they want to attract, and will ideally acknowledge the not-so-fine line between commercial viability and opportunistically extortionate in-game economics.
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"Given my familial relationship with senior members of the Venezuelan government, I believed that we were potential targets for an extortionate scheme or other violent attempt at retribution against my family and country," Campo Flores said.
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We won't make it all the way to Devon on the petrol we have but don't want to pay for a whole tank at extortionate service prices, so we fill up enough to get us there ($28.06).
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The then new-fangled "transformative technology" was going to change the world, we were told—but underperforming hardware coupled with extortionate pricing and a lack of applications instead left the majority of us turned off and disenchanted.
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Meanwhile, the whole damn thing is probably going to be some exclusive TIDAL event anyway, so you might be pressed to ask yourself why you bother (unless, of course, you pay the extortionate monthly TIDAL subscription fees).
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In Lanzhou, a city of nearly 3.7 million along the Yellow River and the ancient Silk Road in Gansu Province, dozens of former distributors have accused the company of abetting extortionate practices that left them in debt.
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"The defendants used extortionate tactics to garner quick settlements from individuals who were unaware of the defendants' role in uploading the movie, and often were either too embarrassed or could not afford to defend themselves," the indictment reads.
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"You find a way to give me some sports packages without those 85 channels from 1 to 100 that I don't use and I'd be a cord cutter, too, after reviewing those borderline extortionate cable bills," Cramer said.
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The rather peculiar garment is available from online fashion retailer Pretty Little Thing for £25 ($34), which isn't too bad really given some of the extortionate price tags attached to some of the more abstract denim designs out there.
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Chairman Pai exudes charm even as he operates an aggressive deregulatory weed wacker that favors arcane administrative safeguards for phone companies over other matters, such as the long past due reduction in extortionate calling rates paid by prison inmates.
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"In the AMI letters I'm making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal: they will publish the personal photos unless Gavin de Becker and I make the specific false public statement to the press," he goes on.
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Charging the men with a smorgasbord of crimes like gambling, loansharking, extortion, arson, gun- and cigarette-running, and conspiracy to commit assault, the feds are also alleging white-collar offenses like healthcare fraud, credit-card fraud and extortionate extensions of credit.
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After another bottle or two of extortionate wine, he reveals that he is a money launderer for the Russian mob, but that his ruthless new boss, known as the Prince (Grigoriy Dobrygin), has set about bumping off the old guard.
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"Avenatti used illegal and extortionate threats for the purpose of obtaining millions of dollars in payments from a public company," Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday, according to The New York Times.
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And since most merchants operate on tiny profit margins, it means they have to raise prices to cover at least some of these extortionate fees, which in turn means higher prices for consumers, whether they use a card or not.
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They refer to frequent inter-tribal fighting, an extortionate black market, the bad apples who regularly incite rioting when refugees queue up for food or aid, and a creeping panic that something might happen to their wives, daughters, and sisters.
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With his colleagues, he called on the credit agencies to face penalties to the top brass and extortionate fines to hold the companies accountable — and to send a message to others that they can't play fast and loose with our data again.
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The Obama-era rules didn't prohibit data caps; they prohibited service providers from artificially slowing down or blocking specific content in a discriminatory fashion, whether it's to limit their customers' access to rival services or just charge extortionate fees to access certain content.
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Town WiFi Town WiFi Town WiFi is a tool (available for iOS or Android) to help people cut down on their cell data use and avoid extortionate data roaming rates by making it easier and faster to connect to commercial Wi-Fi networks.
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While the Queen was receiving taxpayers' money for the upkeep of Buckingham Palace, her private estate was investing in a fund which held shares in BrightHouse, a retailer which exploited society's poorest and most vulnerable by charging extortionate repayments on household appliances.
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Law enforcement sources tell us Judge Genece Brinkley is being investigated by the FBI for possible relationships she might have in Philly -- including to a local music mogul, Charlie Mack, whom she asked Meek to sign with -- as well as a possible extortionate demand.
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He said the US had a "long tradition" of using every available opportunity to wage what amounted to trade war "if it benefits their own economy", and the "extortionate damages claims" being made in the case of Deutsche Bank were an example of that.
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For new businesses, startup costs will be smaller and many of the risks that come with setting up shop will be mitigated, and already-established retail companies will no longer need to pay extortionate rates to exist on the trendiest high-streets in town.
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After feeling a brief twang of personal satisfaction for taking money from the world champion when he lands in my territory, I end up owing him an extortionate amount of rent just a few throws later, forcing me to mortgage a few properties of my own.
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But HBO is already dealing with a multi-week standoff with a team of extortionate hackers who have begun releasing episodes of shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm—the length of which has clearly left the company very annoyed—and episodes of Game of Thrones continue to leak online.
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What's peculiar about Maplewood's "extortionate scheme," the lawsuit alleges, is that the poor people accused of failing to appear in court are forced to pay a fee of between $300 and 2003, or serve jail time, to have their warrant recalled or even just to access the court system.
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According to the suit, plaintiffs are seeking financial relief against a particular payday lender that partnered with Think Finance to avoid state anti-usury laws and that has "taken advantage of people who are struggling financially by charging extortionate interest rates and engaging in illegal lending practices," it states.
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It's the kind of walk you do when you're self-consciously trying to look relaxed and also a little bit threatening—a tough act to pull off at the best of times, let alone after being ripped-off by an extortionate airport taxi in the sweltering Manila smog.
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The debate over net neutrality isn't whether people are literally going to be unable to upload photos of cute puppies to the internet, but whether they're going to be able to do so on fair terms or arcane, extortionate ones dictated entirely by a handful of ultra-wealthy service providers.
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"Retro gaming" is such a stupid sector of the industry for the most part, with recycled tech given new skins—see that Spectrum handheld—and people charging extortionate prices for old games because grown adults with a little paper in their purses suddenly want to regress to being 11 again.
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His obsessive plotting of the prospects of his wife and children is also a pre-emptive move against his wealthy brother, Ernesto, who gives him an extortionate emergency loan and drunkenly serves up insults at Ramón's 50th-birthday party — until Ramón finally answers him with a champagne bottle to the head.
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Lengthy searching rigmarole, ticket costs, extortionate drinks, not being able to get in, not being able to leave, it's too hot inside, it's too cold outside, losing people, finding the wrong people, cloakrooms, not being able to sit down, toilets, the floor, the ceiling, photographers, phones, shoes, faces, shoulders, bouncers and your legs.
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Other crimes related to cryptocurrency have included extortionate demands for ransom in exchange for cessation of hoax phone calls to the police (a practice known as swatting), a number of muggings at in-person sales of cryptocurrency, and numerous attempts to hijack cell phones in order to change passwords on holding accounts and escape with the contents.
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Much like your bank is now doing Mental Health Awareness day posts while damaging your mental health all year around by charging you extortionate fees for going over your overdraft, a huge part of the emerging sleep industry is interested in the importance of restorative sleep only inasmuch as it leads to more work during your waking hours.
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Photo: APLast week, the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission and its Verizon-loving chair Ajit Pai rammed through a wildly unpopular decision to repeal Barack Obama-era open internet guidelines, potentially opening the door for internet service providers to start blocking or throttling anyone on the web they want or hitting them up for extortionate fees.
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In short, ask (or Google) around and you&aposll quickly deduce that 2006 and 2008 are considered the best available vintages of late (though we can start to look for 2012 and 2013), and you can shop them while supplies last or pay extortionate prices to pry them from the cellars of collectors and the likes.
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When voters look at Washington to see how things are going, this week they will see our leaders approve spending $106 billion more on the military than the rest of the budget combined, while repealing taxes for the health care industry and punting on legislation to protect patients from the most blatantly extortionate health care practice in America.
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"In the AMI letters I'm making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal: They will publish the personal photos unless Gavin de Becker and I make the specific false public statement to the press that we 'have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI's coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces,'" Bezos wrote in the post.
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And if Amazon's going to build the thing, it might as well be in a place that didn't come begging and pulling P.R. stunts, like pretty much every city in the US. But a Puerto Rico deal would require the e-retail giant to forgo some of the practically extortionate tax incentives and deferential treatment being offered by those same cities.
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Founded in 2016 by Asaf Navot, a former Bain strategy consultant and INSEAD graduate, and Nick Binnington, a former British Army Captain and LBS graduate, Home Made's proposition is based on the premise that the letting agent model is broken: "High-street agents offer average service and extortionate fees, while online agents offered low fees, but even worse service," says the startup.
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So Shaub, who now serves as a senior adviser for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), an independent good government watchdog group, decided to use his large Twitter platform to not only sound the alarm about the president feeling emboldened to make extortionate demands in public, but also to keep reminding people that this sort of thing should not become normal.
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Image: Gizmodo Apple is gearing up for its annual product announcement in September where it will reportedly debut a more expensive iPhone and a new 103K Apple TV. Apple wants to be able to tell customers that they can get 4K movies for a slightly less-extortionate price than its competitors are offering, but movie studios hate this idea and both sides are out of their minds.
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Whether I am in a stadium or a basement dripping sweat from the ceiling, I frequently find myself surrounded by music fans many years my junior, and, as I observe them bopping around—the extortionate price of a pint barely registering to them in the face of their naked euphoria—I make myself nauseous with my own faraway-eyed reminiscing about The Good Old Days.
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Let us fervently hope our health care system is not overwhelmed, but just in case … Judith M. Guenther-AdamsOakwood, Ohio To the Editor: Re "After Furor, Reseller Parts With Reserve of Sanitizer" (news article, March 16): Like most of us, I was outraged at the attempt to exploit a health crisis by charging extortionate prices for a greatly needed product and pleased that it was thwarted.
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And now she sees you at your most disappointing and embarrassing: as a human adult, lost in the world without an anchor, too blinded by the bright lights of a big city with extortionate rents and temping jobs, trying desperately to convince anyone—but most especially yourself—that you are an artist, a resting artist; lost and burning up what they always tell you is the best decade of your life being anxious about every second of it.
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He echoes scholars who compare this transfer of wealth from poor to rich nations—a sum, since 1980, amounting to America's current GDP—to the redistributive theft of colonialism, which saw Europe increase its share of the world's GDP from 20 to 60 percent as it looted silver from Latin America, funded the Industrial Revolution with profits from the slave trade, destroyed the Indian textile industry to bolster Manchester's mills, and extracted extortionate taxes across the globe.
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Asked his view on Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's remark on Tuesday that Brussels could "go whistle" if it thought Britain would pay what Johnson called "extortionate" demands, Barnier showed no desire to join in any cross-Channel banter: "I'm not hearing any whistling, just the clock ticking," the Frenchman said, echoing his refrain of the past year that time is tight to conclude terms for an exit in March 2019 that can limit disruption for businesses and millions of people.
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