They work cooperatively to shake down cities to build stadiums.
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We weren't sure how it was going to shake down.
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No sir, you can't shake down Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden.
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I shake down educated elites — literally taking their lunch money — for a living.
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Here's what it looked like to see it all shake down on the ground.
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She demands he stop his shake-down and give her $10,000 every week forever.
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"This is a case about a shake down," Sobelman told jurors in his opening statement.
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"It is not the role of the president to shake down foreign leaders," Pelosi said.
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K. now, just don't stay down/Let's go shake down until we get what we need.
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Pee denies he's been abusive and has called Lira's claims a "15 million dollar shake down."
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The IRS respects taxpayer rights, and these angry, shake-down calls are not how we do business.
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Will they move to another city like San Antonio, or will they shake down Oakland city government?
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These serial plaintiffs shake down business owners who are forced to either settle or go to court.
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Will Obama's orchestrated shake down of Israel at the U.N. really result in Jews abandoning the party?
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Most negative reviews, of course, are meant to warn other travelers rather than shake down lodging managers.
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Sometimes, all you need to shake down a decent number of folks is a well-placed curiosity gap.
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Despite their advanced age and depleted numbers, the boys can still shake down a room full of 'Deadheads.
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Instead, the North will try to shake down the outside world for concessions, as it has done countless times.
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And in the end, you have to believe that it will all shake down O.K. HELEN CLUTTON Dorchester, England
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Democrats said Volker provided clear evidence that Trump had tried to "shake down" Zelensky for his own political gain.
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Always supportive of me, he sang on my song "Shake Down," one of the greatest gifts he left me.
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The takeaway from how things shake down in the Three Eyed Raven playthrough is telling in a more general sense.
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Despite bleeding profusely, he manages to shake down all the medallions in record time save for one at Amanda's end.
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That changes with KeRanger, an application poised to shake down a large number of Mac owners in the coming days.
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Zeke arrives at the store just moments before the local Savage Warlords gang shows up to shake down the owner.
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From a shale shake down to bitcoin bitterness and a Super Bowl snack-fight, here are the headlines of the day.
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And then when people overdose, they lock us all down, and shake down our lockers, and take away our recreation time.
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Game's team filed docs calling it "Mularky!" and preposterous ... claiming it's all a ploy to shake down the rapper for $10 million.
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In short, the Mueller "exoneration," as Trump has referred to it, had become part of the motive for the Ukrainian shake down.
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Apple accused the company of using its position as a top manufacturer of phone parts to shake down companies for hefty fees.
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Mitchell repeats, and appears to believe, allegations that the F.B.I. essentially deputized a mobster to shake down a frightened Klansman for information.
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He engineered special provisions to protect his elected position and confronted Mr Vorobyov when his men tried to shake down a business partner.
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Now the group has embarked on a brazen campaign to shake down state-owned firms, including the national oil and mobile phone companies.
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But soon, stories started appearing in the tabloids claiming that Ms. Mackris was in debt and potentially trying to shake down Mr. O'Reilly.
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Hood said she focuses on return on investment, and she will shake down the couch cushions to invest in initiatives that drive revenue growth.
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The first two year closure experiment was explicitly seen as a "shake-down" mission to identify problems and technologies for future modification and improvement.
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"She continued: "It is not part of his job to use taxpayer money to shake down other countries for the benefit of his campaign.
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Kinshasa's "roulages", traffic policemen who leap in front of cars to shake down drivers at every opportunity, often regretted trying it on with Mambele.
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She has resisted pressure from the left to move more quickly; if a Ukraine shake-down is clear cut, she'll direct the impeachment action.
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Chico is still missing, but Luke is onto something bigger: Cottonmouth's thugs regularly shake down Harlem businesses to fund Mariah's "New Harlem Renaissance" revitalization project.
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This was the matter that precipitated Trump's impeachment after the president last year tried to shake down the Ukrainians to dish dirt on the Bidens.
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Prosecutors said Ms. Park was an accomplice in the scheme, directing her aides to help Ms. Choi shake down major corporations like Samsung and Hyundai.
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We're talking about offensive speech being deemed offensive by someone who thinks they can shake down somebody for a lot of money and a settlement.
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Money paid to people who come out of the woodwork and shake down people under threat of revealing bad sexual stories are not legitimate campaign expenditures.
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To prevent swindlers from trying to shake down naïve investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission bars certain "bad actors" from being on a company's management team.
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Still, legal battles look likely: incumbent banks may go after newcomers, and "non-practising entities" (also known as "patent trolls") may attempt to shake down other firms.
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" The complaint also claims Chyna's relationship and decision to have a baby with Kardashian was "nothing short of an outright fraud to shake down the Kardashian family.
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They say the president's actions were "inappropriate" and "wrong," but trying to shake down a foreign country to go after your political opponent isn't an impeachable offense.
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But the truth was that this arrived anonymously to them from a source, who was giving it to Gawker because he was trying to shake down Hulk Hogan.
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But prosecutors say the evidence they will present shows Avenatti was in deep debt and was trying to shake down the athletic apparel giant for his own gain.
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The goal was to depict her as a promiscuous woman, deeply in debt, who was trying to shake down Mr. O'Reilly, according to people briefed on the strategy.
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It was almost as if he was trying to send a message to Trump — or even to shake down the president so he'd pay Cohen's pesky legal bills.
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" We spoke with sources close to Camilla who tell us Poindexter is adamant she NEVER tried to shake down Penn and there was no request for "hush money.
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He was portrayed as leading his unit on a tireless quest to shake down civilians and find "monsters" — big-time drug dealers with lots of loot to steal.
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He is charged in a separate federal indictment in New York with what prosecutors said was an attempt to "shake down" Nike Inc for more than $20 million.
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Kaufman also says the hackers are trying to shake down the NBA star -- threatening to go public with the cyber goods unless Ty forks over some serious dough.
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" It goes on to accuse the president of using "[American] tax dollars to shake down a vulnerable foreign government to interfere in a U.S. election for his personal benefit.
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The Ukraine affair triggers a gut feeling in all but the biggest Trump diehards that presidents should not shake down foreign leaders for slimy opposition research on American citizens.
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Before he and the crew went out for their shake-down on Thursday, Burling sat casually with his feet dangling over the edge of the dock pulling his shoes on.
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Hillary Clinton and her team went to Russia to shake down the trees with Vladimir Putin&aposs cronies to get information and they&aposre getting away with calling opposition research.
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" The complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, also claims Chyna's relationship and decision to have a baby with Kardashian was "nothing short of an outright fraud to shake down the Kardashian family.
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Franco told VICE News the CJNG is known to shake down mayors in remote towns across Jalisco, particularly in the south of the state where it has a strong presence.
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In New York, prosecutors allege that Avenatti tried to shake down Nike for millions of dollars so he wouldn't reveal allegations the apparel company paid off high school basketball players.
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"Going to an airline check-in counter should not result in a last-minute shake down," Nelson, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said Wednesday.
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Yet the case against Mr Trump, that he sought to shake down a foreign leader for political favours using military aid and other state resources as leverage, is essentially already proven.
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"The enforcement arms of government should not be used in order to shake down the productive sector just because we can, especially when the legal case is shaky at best," he said.
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Local very bored villain and father Hiram (Mark Consuelos, now carrying a fedora everywhere) sends two of his minions to Pop's to shake down his daughter ahead of her big opening night.
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The assault that began Tuesday was the second global strike in two months in which hackers have tried to shake down computer users, threatening to delete their data unless they paid up.
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The airport security agent, who had clearly encountered her kind before, was giving the woman a polite but thorough shake down with her wand, which was emitting a series of boisterous beeps.
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"The reason why we're here is because the president of the United States ... used the power of his office to try to shake down a foreign power to interfere in this year's election."
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Avenatti is accused in the Nike case of trying to shake down the company by threatening to expose alleged evidence of bribing amateur basketball players and their families unless the company paid up.
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Instead, the CFPB felt empowered to shake down major corporations not for actual wrongdoing, but for the simple fact that the agency wanted to steer additional penalty funds to its preferred political causes.
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Graduating from fists to lead pipes, then to dynamite, Raymond and his partner "Nails" Markey (Warner Richmond) sell protection, corrupt unions, buy judges, shake down developers and even threaten the city's food supply.
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If it sounds like a shake down, it is, as noted by Committee Chairman Jeb HensarlingThomas (Jeb) Jeb HensarlingHas Congress lost the ability or the will to pass a unanimous bipartisan small business bill?
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On the other hand, Spanos and Davis could try to use the next year to shake down San Diego and Oakland for more stadium cash, so public coffers aren't free and clear just yet.
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That same year, while helping Mr. Dervishaj shake down the proprietor of a seafood restaurant, Mr. Llakatura told the man that if he refused to pay what he owed his legs might end up broken.
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Now that Lev Parnas, a key conspirator in Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani's plot to shake down Ukraine, is singing, Trump's defenders are pointing out that he is a disreputable person who can't be trusted.
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The biggest issue is not bad-apple officers or hateful individuals who ride in their patrol cars waiting to do harm to a black kid with a toy, or to shake down an elotero man.
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Paul Hansmeier and John Steele actually produced some of the pornography, solely for the purpose of copyrighting it so they could file "sham lawsuits" used to shake down their targets, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said.
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But such soirees are more than an opportunity to mingle with society friends; they also provide her with a setting where she can shake down her connected friends for money to benefit the institutions she treasures.
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New York (CNN)Jury selection in Michael Avenatti's federal extortion trial began in New York on Monday as prosecutors are set to argue he tried to shake down athletic apparel giant Nike for millions of dollars.
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In an instant I felt like I went from middle class getting-college-educated girl who was smart, careful, and didn't have sex to the stupid slut who has to shake down a boyfriend for 'bortion cash.
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" The complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, described Chyna as a "money-hungry" stripper and also claims Chyna's relationship and decision to have a baby with Kardashian was "nothing short of an outright fraud to shake down the Kardashian family.
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Officials claim 21-year-old Geourvon Keinell Sears tried to shake down the Kansas City Chiefs safety in April by threatening to contact TMZ with fake allegations of sexual misconduct if Tyrann didn't come up with the money.
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An alternate reading, if you're more skeptical of arming Ukraine on the merits, would be that the Ukrainians used the prospect of cooperation with Mueller to shake down the president and get him to cough up the Javelins.
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"The president believes that it is his God-given right to shake down foreign leaders for help in his re-election, and he should not be encumbered by the public finding out about it," Mr. Schiff said Sunday.
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The global cyberattack that struck parts of Asia, Europe and the U.S. this week was the second time in two months that hackers have tried to shake down computer users, threatening to delete their data unless they paid up.
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Controversial lawyer Michael Avenatti searched the internet for the term "insider trading" and terms involving Nike stock options as he engaged in a scheme to shake down the athletic apparel giant for up to $25 million, federal prosecutors claim.
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PARIS — In Fiscal Kombat, an online video game introduced this month by the presidential campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, France's far-left candidate, players shake down men in suits to put money into the public coffers, Robin Hood-style.
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Cole reveals that the cops caught his car on a toll booth camera because he was visiting Woodlawn, to try and shake down Allison's doctor for information and find out why she was so damn okay when she returned to Montauk.
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"What we do ahead of (the season opener in) Melbourne is that we try and shake down all of the battery systems to make sure all of the stock that are going racing are in good shape," he told the formula1.
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Goldsmith's "effort to shake down the Foundation with its time-barred and meritless infringement claim is apparently part of [her] campaign to profit from Prince Rogers Nelson's tragic death," reads the Foundation's complaint, which Courthouse News first made available online.
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But Mastro also adds some provocative details about his and his client's interactions with Tantaros lawyer Burstein, asserting that Burstein nakedly attempted to "shake down" Snyder for $15 million in exchange for leaving him out of the suit against Fox.
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By either abandoning or neglecting commitments, or seeking to shake down allies for better deals, a Trump administration might lead us to a world without robust US security alliances -- the very foundation of the "globalist" American posture many Trump supporters disparage.
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According to an anonymous whistleblower complaint, the aid was put on hold around the same time as Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was attempting to shake down the new administration of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for political dirt on the Bidens.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Georgia debt collection company's owner was convicted on Tuesday of having engaged in a scheme to shake down more than 6,000 financially strapped consumers nationwide by warning they could face arrest or prison if they failed to pay up.
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Avenatti was criminally charged by federal prosecutors in New York on Monday with trying to shake down Nike for up to $25 million in exchange for not going public with claims that the company's employees made illicit payments to high school basketball players.
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After many checkpoints, where officers shake down the young men on motorbikes, some riding two or three at a time, their thin arms curled around each other's waists, you'll see a silty brown river snaking past men lounging on charpoys by its banks.
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NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Michael Avenatti had an "agenda" to shake down Nike Inc for millions of dollars by threatening to tar the apparel company with corruption allegations, a prosecutor said on Tuesday near the end of the celebrity lawyer's extortion trial.
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" He then ramps things up, addressing her claims of abuse, "THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A 15 MILLION DOLLAR SHAKE DOWN FROM AN ANGRY WOMEN WHO IS DOWN TO HER LAST AND CLEARLY UPSET BECAUSE A FAILED ATTEMPT TO GET HER CHILD SUPPORT SWITCHED.
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The Capitol — a place the founders envisioned as a safe space from outside influences — has been abuzz with fear the commander-in-chief would take the Senate's vote to acquit on impeachment as a hall pass to shake down any foreign leader he wants.
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Avenatti has already been charged with fraud and embezzlement in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California, and is charged in a separate federal complaint in New York with what prosecutors said was an attempt to "shake down" Nike Inc for more than $20 million.
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You can read more about those letters here, but I want to focus on an example in one paragraph from the FCC's letter to AT&T that really highlights how zero rating and sponsored data are intended to be used together to shake down competitors.
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After the complaint was filed, Rose's lawyer, Mark Baute, said in a statement to PEOPLE that the allegations were "completely false and without any factual basis," characterizing them as "nothing more than a desperate attempt to shake down a highly respected and successful athlete."
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" The complaint also claims Chyna's relationship and decision to have a baby with Rob was "nothing short of an outright fraud to shake down the Kardashian family," branding her as a stripper that has "created a reputation as a money-hungry, shameless pseudo-celebrity.
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A prosecutor told jurors in Manhattan federal court at the opening of a trial on Tuesday that John Williams, 50, encouraged employees at his debt collection firm - Williams, Scott & Associates LLC - to shake down consumers and coerce them into paying money they did not owe.
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While the new right-wing movements participate in electoral politics, many of them have unofficial links with vigilante groups that patrol their country's borders, shake down immigrant businesses, and harass women in hijabs, and small armies of thugs that wait to pick fights at rallies.
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"Even if launched today the submarine will have to undergo a period of fitting-out, then manufacturer's acceptance trials, KPN acceptance trials, commissioning and finally KPN shake-down cruises before becoming truly operational," Bermudez and Victor Cha, well-known Korea experts explained, in their new CSIS report.
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And our (Republican) colleagues will not even tell us whether, in theory, they think it would be wrong for the President of the United States to shake down foreign governments, to come and get involved in our presidential campaigns, in order to harm the president's political opponents.
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"You're going to actually say that if Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE doesn't have the opportunity to shake down billionaires, that AIDS will not be cured?" he asked.
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The Mara gangs, who use murder as a tool to elevate their status within cliques and to shake down businesses, are strangling the local economy, a key factor driving the large-scale emigration of Central Americans to the United States, especially teenagers, whom the gangs target as both victims and recruits.
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The feds stretched the notion of jurisdiction to shake down white collar criminals from abroad for millions, few perpetrators will do any serious jail time, the alleged victim—FIFA—probably will get minimal if any compensation, and FIFA will remain a laughable cesspool of excess (as evidenced by the recent election).
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Prosecutors: 'This is a case about a shake down' Avenatti threatened to make the allegations against Nike public, hurting the company's financial value and reputation, unless they agreed to pay his client $1.5 million and agreed to pay him up to $25 million for an "internal investigation" of the allegations, Sobelman said.
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These risks include reputational damage, potential for politicians to shake down a company for money, and the chance that a company will lose control over an "outsourced" payment to a trade association or other group that ends up supporting political activity in conflict with corporate values or business objectives, or possibly in illegal activity.
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In the end, he was a leader defined and confined by his own political upbringing—a petty, vindictive rabble-rouser trained to shake down corporations, bully local governments, incite grievance mongers, and prop-up shady nonprofits—ultimately exposing him as a president whose basic skill set (and instinct) was always geared to dividing up the pie, never growing it.
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His criticism of regime change, his support for stealing other countries' oil, his vocal support of torture "much worse than waterboarding," his plans to shake down US allies for protection money — put that all together and you get a package of ideas that nobody on any side of those Obama-era debates could support, Republican or Democrat.
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In Zimbabwe, I took two taxis — from the border of Botswana to Victoria Falls, and another to Hwange National Park a couple hours away — and we were stopped four times by police, each time expecting a bribe of some sort, sometimes in the guise that we were driving outside the taxi's zone, and other times an even more blatant shake down.
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"The president believes that it is his God-given right to shake down foreign leaders for help in his reelection, and he should not be encumbered by the public finding out about it," Schiff, a former prosecutor and close ally of Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiHouse Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Overnight Health Care: Judge rules supervised drug injection sites are legal | Is a drug pricing deal still possible?
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President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE branded the whistle blower, who first revealed reports about his effort to shake down Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as a "liar" and "disgrace," suggesting that's what that genre is.
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The fact that there are good reasons to disbelieve every one of these scenarios is a good indication of the corner that the NFL has painted itself into: Normally you'd expect that some city would have made the league's decision easier by stepping to the head of the line with a blank check, so the fact that the bidding war among St. Louis, San Diego, and Oakland barely even heated up—Oakland's mayor didn't even bother to submit a stadium finance plan to the NFL—is an indication that cities may not be quite as easy to shake down for cash as they once were.
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On the other hand, Kroenke is now looking at a potential bill of more than $3 billion—$2.66 billion for the stadium itself, and another $550 million for a relocation fee, less whatever he can get his renter team to chip in—something that he's almost certainly not going to recoup via the increased value of moving his team from St. Louis to LA. • Dean Spanos didn't totally get hosed—he at least has the option to submit to Kroenke's terms for a share of the LA market, and also has 12 months in which to shake down San Diego for a more lucrative stadium subsidy, or else be faced with an NFL-issued "Get Out of San Diego Free" card.
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