The extortionist provided screenshots of an alleged conversation with a customer support account on AlphaBay itself, which suggest the extortionist was paid in exchange for keeping the dox private.
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No one in the room knew who the extortionist was.
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"I'm not an extortionist, I'm not a stripper," Sabbag said.
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If they're not the extortionist, then they're a scam artist.
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" Any criticism of Pyongyang's extortionist ways will be regarded "anti-peace.
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Then comes the decision of whether to pay the extortionist or not.
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He aggressively wants to help law enforcement identify and catch the extortionist(s).
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Consider the staff of AlphaBay, currently the largest dark web marketplace, who appear to have given an extortionist several payments, because the extortionist claimed to have uncovered the identity, or dox, of a former administrator and current employees of the site.
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She's been called trash, garbage, a pig, an extortionist, a felon, a husband stealer.
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But the Uber hacker was an extortionist holding data hostage, not a bounty participant.
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Finally, the cost of litigation should be shifted to the failed patent troll extortionist.
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With the extortionist still on the line, she told them to find her daughter.
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I was called a liar, an extortionist and the girl who had the threesome.
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The dispute stems from Qualcomm's charging of patent royalties, which Apple has decried as extortionist.
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Furthermore, we are willing to pay extortionist prices for that ineffable je ne sais quoi.
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Correction: This piece has been updated to correct the name of the convicted TalkTalk extortionist.
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Kirchner characterized the judge as an "extortionist" and said he was part of a mafia.
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"Montia and I are delighted that the alleged extortionist is being brought to justice," Bloom wrote.
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Here it's the big guy's gentle treatment of an old couple being squeezed by extortionist loan sharks.
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Woman at center of Kevin Hart scandal speaks "I'm not an extortionist, I'm not a stripper," Sabbag said.
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As we first reported, the FBI is on the hunt for the extortionist and they have a suspect.
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A pamphlet denouncing him as a liar and extortionist who lit the fires himself has circulated around town.
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A pamphlet denouncing him as a liar and extortionist who lit the fires himself has circulated around town.
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The alleged extortionist also reportedly told TMZ that they were trying to get money and expose Hart for cheating.
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Judging by the messages, it appears alphabaysupport may have paid 35 bitcoin (around $45,000) to the extortionist in February.
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The alleged extortionist reportedly told TMZ that he or she was trying to get money and expose Hart for cheating.
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He said the payment was aimed at stopping "false and extortionist accusations" Daniels made about a sexual encounter with Trump.
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Uber has called Jacobs an "extortionist," referencing the $4.5 million settlement he received over his claims about the company's secrecy measures.
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The crazy thing is this ... if the person is the extortionist, they're essentially saying they would go to prison for $500k.
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" The president said the Daniels agreement "was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.
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One of these characters is revealed to us as someone who is abusive toward her girlfriend and, later, as an extortionist.
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Padilla described Jacobs as an extortionist who made explosive claims about what Uber was up to in order to score a payout.
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It was recently revealed that the alleged extortionist was a close member of Hart's entourage; he now faces four years in prison.
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Attorney Lisa Bloom seems to say Kevin Hart contacted her client and accused her of being the extortionist behind the sex tape.
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The rapper recently unleashed a Twitter storm calling out an unnamed ex-boyfriend for a myriad of stalker-like and extortionist behavior.
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" He added that the agreement with Daniels was made "to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.
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As we first reported, the extortion demand actually reached 8 figures at one point but the extortionist lowered it back down to 7.
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The brass ring for law enforcement is decoding the encrypted emails the extortionist sent to Kevin's people and figuring out the sender's identity.
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But life is easier for the extortionist as well, who can rob hundreds of thousands of people at once while still in pyjamas.
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Whatever strikes the extortionist brought on have now been reversed, according to a series of tweets aimed at ObbyRaidz and another creator, KenzoOG.
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Now here's what's shocking ... the extortionist who made the video says the point is 2-fold ... to expose Kevin and to get money.
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Ali, an underwear salesman cum small-time extortionist, discovers golf accidentally while collecting money from a businessman playing a round on the greens.
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Kesha's a liar and an extortionist who got exposed by a judge who figured out what's up ... this according to Dr. Luke's lawyers.
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"Cunha seems more like an extortionist of businesses, and with that money he sustained his own personal caucus in Congress," another source said.
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Her lawsuit said she was made out to be a "liar" and "extortionist" when the comedian, his wife and his attorney issued blanket denials.
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The extortionist first contacted Motherboard in August 2016, saying they had identified Alpha02, the creator of AlphaBay, and other staff members of the site.
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The police said a special team investigating the Potsdam pharmacy package was doubled to over 50 officials and they were searching for the extortionist.
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Are "Le Figaro" and Komrade the same person, an extortionist masquerading as a whistle-blower, or perhaps a whistle-blower who dabbles in extortion?
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Clearly he was bad, because he was a racketeer, an extortionist (though "rent collector" was the term he preferred), an arms trafficker and a mobster.
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"Since the winner pays the amount of the second highest bid, this would increase their costs a lot, without costing [the extortionist] anything," Johnson said.
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On Wednesday, Ms. Padilla testified that the letter, which has not been made public in its entirety, was "clearly extortionist" and filled with "fantastical" information.
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The extortionist told Heath to immediately go to his bank and withdraw money if he wanted to see his 43-year-old son Nakh alive.
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I know that sounds kind of murky, and it sounds like extortion, and a lot of people call me an extortionist, but no, I'm not.
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Cosby and his representatives responded in three separate statements by depicting Hill as a liar and an extortionist who was out for money, her attorneys said.
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Fast forward to this week, and the extortionist gave Motherboard the username and password for a Reddit account that includes conversations with alphabaysupport conducted throughout February.
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Thus far, that part seems to have been established without any detailed counter narrative, so it matters less whether the extortionist threat was clear or implied.
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" On Wednesday, the woman at the center of the sex-extortion video scandal came forward at a press conference Wednesday, saying, "I am not an extortionist.
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The extortionist rages in the video about Kevin proclaiming he's now a one woman man and how she says it's all just a big, fat lie.
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"Victims often try to appease the extortionist, but these efforts just allow him to retain the underserved mantle of a decent person," Mr. de Becker wrote.
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" At the time, model Montia Sabbag came forward at a press conference, identifying herself as the woman involved with Hart and saying, "I am not an extortionist.
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"Qualcomm is attempting to use injunctions against our products to try to get Apple to succumb to their extortionist demands," Apple said in a statement to Reuters.
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Gilles believes Brown painted her as "a homewrecker, prostitute, and extortionist" and in her lawsuit, Gilles paints a very different picture of her life with Brown and Belafonte.
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After it was revealed he was the alleged extortionist, Kevin tweeted ... "Mind blown ... Hurt ... at a loss for words and simply in complete disbelief at the moment. WOW."
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Uber's legal team has referred to the letter as "extortionist" in nature; the company paid a $4.5 million settlement to Jacobs over his claims about the company's operations.
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This means, according to the researchers, that an extortionist could demand higher amounts of money and victims would be more willing to pay than in traditional ransomware attacks.
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The following month, Trump said on Twitter that Cohen had entered into an agreement "to stop the false and extortionist accusations" that he claimed were made by Daniels.
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" In September 2017, Sabbag came forward at a press conference, identifying herself as the woman involved with Hart in the recording and saying, "I am not an extortionist.
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Last week, both creators shared stories of how their channels were being threatened with a third copyright strike — and the possible termination of their channels — from an anonymous extortionist.
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They produced a huge amount of information — fake information — about me, accusing me from being a pedophile to being an extortionist to a drug trafficker to a car thief.
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"Right after the weekend in Las Vegas I think they had some contact, but since the extortionist came out with these images, it's all been through attorneys," Bloom says.
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"Right after the weekend in Las Vegas I think they had some contact, but since the extortionist came out with these images, it's all been through attorneys," Bloom said.
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First, his former personal lawyer, quite unethically, accused him of having committed a criminal violation of the federal election laws by paying money to an extortionist, alleged ex-mistress.
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Justice porn is seeing Olivia Benson and whatever partner she's with nailing criminals—a rapist, a killer, an extortionist, a blackmailer, a sex-trafficker—and putting them in prison.
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This is the woman at the center of the Kevin Hart video that triggered a multi-million dollar extortion demand, and the extortionist freely admits money is the end game.
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The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.
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Bolsonaro, 63, a former army captain turned congressman running on an anti-graft platform, praised the truckers in social media messages for fighting "extortionist" taxes levied by Temer's "corrupt" government.
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The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair... despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.
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The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair,...... ...despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair.
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Kevin Hart's alleged sex tape extortionist says he didn't do anything wrong -- he was just trying to make some money and happened to have a "newsworthy celebrity sex tape" worth selling.
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Bloom tells PEOPLE both she and Sabbag provided law enforcement with "theories" on who they think the extortionist might be during a three-hour meeting Monday, but declined to name them.
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Lisa just spoke with Harvey Levin on "TMZ Live" and said she believes Kevin may have contacted her client once, but Montia Sabbag vigorously denied any allegation of being the extortionist.
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The boy, gangly and pimply, is a fledgling member of the 24th Street Revolutionaries, a faction of the 2431th Street gang, and he works as an extremely small-time roadside extortionist.
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" They continue, "According to a Complaint filed today in California, an executive assistant employed in 2015 to help with business and personal matters, turned out to be a grifter and extortionist.
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"Even considering these three statements together as a combined, single statement, this newly 'conjoined' statement does not lead to an inference that Plaintiff is a 'liar and an extortionist,'" Judge Schwab wrote.
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The lawsuit alleges that Shakhnazaryan, also known as Lianna Azarian, "turned out to be a grifter, a Peeping Tom(asina) and an extortionist," alleging that Shakhnazaryan secretly filmed Carey without her knowledge.
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"Even considering these three statements together as a combined, single statement, this newly 'conjoined' statement does not lead to an inference that plaintiff is a 'liar and an extortionist,'" the judge wrote.
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" In a series of tweets on Thursday morning, written in a lawyerly voice unlike his own, the president went further in disparaging Daniels, calling her claims of an affair "false and extortionist.
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Charlie Sheen says the "hooker" suing him for exposing her to HIV is an extortionist, who rolls the dice with STDs on the regular because she's banged "hundreds, if not thousands," of guys.
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Deol seems especially out of depth playing an extortionist in suburban Delhi, where he and his gang of flunkies force homeowners to sell apartments at dirt-cheap prices by threatening them at gunpoint.
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Kevin Hart wasn't just a close friend of his alleged sex tape extortionist, J.T. Jackson -- he acted like a devoted agent for the guy ... getting him roles in commercials and a lot more.
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Parrish was photographed Sunday with her wedding ring on, walking her dog in L.A. The alleged extortionist reportedly told TMZ that he or she was trying to get money and expose Hart for cheating.
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Not only might the amount have destroyed the company, which is now 16 years old, Newegg, which viewed Soverain as an extortionist, opted against settling for fear the decision would invite future patent suits.
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"The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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First reported by CNBC, the lawsuit portrays Qualcomm as an extortionist over basic smartphone technology and accuses the San Diego-based chip company of withholding payments to Apple in "retaliation" for cooperating with investigators.
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" Trump added that such deals are "very common among celebrities and people of wealth," and that it was used in this case to "stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair.
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" But Dr. Luke and his team trace the extended legal battle back to contract negotiations — and what he called "extortionist threats" by Kesha and her mother — that started in 2013, following the release of "Warrior.
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But then, when his extortionist threatened to lie and say that he paid the hush money out of Treasury funds, Hamilton realized if he had done so it would have constituted an impeachable high crime.
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The hackers, Alexandru Isvanca and Eveline Cismaru, are being described "as part of a bigger extortionist hacking group," and face up to 20 years in prison if they're convicted on charges of fraud and computer crimes.
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"You've shot yourself in the leg and dug your own hole by paying me," the extortionist replies, before demanding even more money: 147.92 bitcoin (over $190,000) allegedly left in the wallet used to pay them originally.
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For years, it's been quietly paying the world's most popular ad blocking service millions to let its ads through the firewall, even as the IAB, of which Google is the biggest member, railed against such extortionist practices.
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"The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair, despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair," Trump wrote in a pair of tweets.
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Narcotraffickers and crime syndicates also pay off gang members to support illicit trafficking and to assert their power; the jobs vary from hit man, kidnapper, extortionist, arsonist, carjacker and recruiter of low-level supporters of criminal activities.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said on Twitter that Cohen was reimbursed for that payment through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, to stop "false and extortionist accusations" Daniels has made about a sexual relationship with the president.
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"Kevin Hart was privy to me wanting to expose him, as I have made countless attempts to expose this information to various blogs, in an attempt to also get paid," the alleged extortionist allegedly said, according to TMZ.
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"Uber's deputy general counsel Angela Padilla testified that Jacobs and his attorney were attempting to extort the company and that Uber disclosed his letters to the US Attorney's Office to "take the air out of his extortionist balloon.
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Renita Hill, 48, had claimed she was defamed her when the comedian and his representatives called her a liar and extortionist as he defended himself after she went public in 2014 with allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police on Monday investigated further suspicious mail packages found around the country as they tried to catch an extortionist who sent a defective parcel bomb to a pharmacy in the city of Potsdam last week.
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"We felt that Halunen was trying to extort the company, and I wanted to take the air out of his extortionist balloon," Padilla testified, explaining the decision to turn over his letters to the US Attorney's Office in June.
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Our sources say before making a multi-million dollar demand to Kevin in return for keeping the video a secret, the extortionist tried to get at least one media outlet to pay $15 million for the highly produced video.
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As one Reddit user pointed out, this extortionist was able to carry on an extortion scheme from a recently created YouTube channel with no videos, made from a throwaway email address, easy to create and easy to identify as suspicious.
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One of the people who could be the extortionist behind the Kevin Hart sexually explicit video contacted his lawyer and offered to take a lie detector test ... but the comedian would have to write a huge check to make that happen.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police said on Saturday they had arrested a suspect in the case of an alleged extortionist who attempted to force supermarkets into coughing up tens of millions of euros by slipping a potentially lethal poison into baby food.
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" How Trump defended the Stormy Daniels agreement: Trump said the nondisclosure agreement "was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair," adding that such arrangements "are very common among celebrities and people of wealth.
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" But after Giuliani said that Trump had paid Cohen back, Trump confirmed in a tweet that he had reimbursed his lawyer through a monthly retainer and insisted that the payment was necessary to ward off Daniels's "false and extortionist accusations.
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"The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair ... despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair," Trump wrote, adding that Daniels and her lawyer had violated it.
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Trump on Thursday acknowledged in a tweet that he did reimburse Cohen for the payment, but insisted that it was necessary to protect himself against Daniels's "false and extortionist accusations" and that none of the money came from his presidential campaign.
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Mally Mall had his home raided and searched because police are investigating allegations of multiple sexual assaults and human sex trafficking, along with alleged importation of exotic animals ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ, but the music producer says the principal accuser is an extortionist.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday his personal lawyer was paid back through a monthly retainer, not campaign funds, for the $130,000 given to adult-film star Stormy Daniels to stop "false and extortionist accusations" she made about a sexual encounter with him.
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The company did share the letter from Mr. Jacobs's lawyer with three different United States attorney offices, because Mr. Jacobs had threatened to take his claims to federal prosecutors and Uber wanted to "take the air out of his extortionist balloon," Ms. Padilla testified.
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When I couldn't show up, Sheen's powerful attorney revealed to the judge that I was away in order to appear at a nightclub, billed as a "world famous adult film star"—on top of calling me an "extortionist" in the press and other attacks on my character.
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A woman who reached a settlement with Bill O'Reilly over harassment allegations sued Mr. O'Reilly and Fox News on Monday for defamation and breach of contract, saying that public statements he and the network made violated the settlement and portrayed her as a liar and politically motivated extortionist.
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WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his lawyer Michael Cohen did not use presidential campaign funds to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a contract that he said was aimed at stopping the adult-film star from making "false and extortionist accusations" about an affair.
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"If that guy, who's obviously an extortionist, is able to convince the help desk for YouTube that something isn't fraudulent when it is, you can only imagine what he can get done to those same people…[to] get them to give him certain information he should not have," Klijnsma said.
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But those virtues needs a clean space to thrive and flourish, a place where an innocent 13-year-old Hispanic girl trying to earn some extra money as a babysitter is exempt from having to negotiate with extortionist gang-bangers who extract half her earnings from her under the pretense of protecting her life and her virginity.
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TMZ broke the story ... the extortionist created a highly-produced video which begins with a photo (above), then a scene with a bed where it appears 2 people are having sex (although you can't see who they are), followed by a naked man putting his clothes on in the same room, who definitely looks like Hart.
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The NFL is calling out the NFL Player's Association ... saying the league has received tips that the NFLPA is going on a smear campaign against Ezekiel Elliott's accuser in an effort to exonerate the RB. Multiple reports have surfaced in the past few days, painting the accuser as everything from a racist to an extortionist ... and the NFL's public relations honcho says the reports are shameful.
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It reportedly details Vaughn's alleged involvement with the hacking group Apophis Squad, and accuses him of engaging in swatting—a potentially deadly prank that involves summoning a tactical police unit to a victim's house by reporting a fictitious violent crime—and making bomb and shooting threats to schools in Britain and the U.S.The indictment also details Apophis Squad's alleged involvement in defacing websites and launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against websites with the intent of temporarily disabling them, according to NBC, which reported that Vaughn was also accused of (in its words) sending "extortionist emails" to one company demanding payment in exchange for ceasing an attack.
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