That unique space, or the Shakedown, is a series of underground Los Angeles lesbian club nights — Shakedown sessions — that started with erotic dancers like Mahogany, one of the original Shakedown Angels.
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Then the arrest — and subsequent shakedown — would begin.
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Critics — and investors — saw it as a shakedown.
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"It's a shakedown of Glencore," says an analyst in London.
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Short story ... Hank says he's the victim of a shakedown.
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Critics called it a consolidation of power and a shakedown.
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He asked Musk where in the letter the shakedown occurs.
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We are confident that this shakedown lawsuit will go nowhere.
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Kelly denies the allegations and chalks it up to a shakedown.
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Any officials involved in such a shakedown should search their conscience.
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The Ukrainian government seems to have understood it was a shakedown.
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He called it a "mafia-like shakedown" of a foreign leader.
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"Schiff just apparently referred to this as a shakedown," said Rep.
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As for Tinder, a company spokesperson says this is a "baseless shakedown."
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"This was a shakedown, pure and simple," Gianaris told reporters on Thursday.
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Outside of Harrisburg, past an overgrown football field, we found ShakeDown BBQ.
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Shakedown is screening at New York's Gavin Brown Enterprise through October 24.
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"This isn't an Agatha Christie novel — this is a shakedown," said Rep.
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"This isn't an Agatha Christie novel -- this is a shakedown," said Rep.
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It&aposs just like a shakedown but now we know it was worse.
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That's especially evident when the president's alleged shakedown of Ukrainian leaders comes up.
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" Carrey has previously spoken out about the pending lawsuits, calling them a "shakedown.
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TESS is currently in the shakedown phase that accompanies any big science mission.
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What do you think about there being no true shakedown scene in Manhattan?
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Despite the shakedown, shareholders unanimously reapproved Sillerman as a boardmember just last week.
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I was 23, and [the staff at Shakedown] was very open and supportive.
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"It's a complete shakedown and it should not be allowed," Heinemeir told lawmakers.
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That is uncomfortably reminiscent of an old-fashioned shakedown, and it is shameful.
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"We saw further evidence that there was a shadow shakedown going on," Rep.
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By now we should all know the script to the North's shakedown film.
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You engaged in a shakedown to get election dirt from a foreign country.
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Bypassing the traditional media, he wrote a highly personal post alleging a shakedown.
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Singer called the claims "completely false" and a "sick, twisted shakedown" at the time.
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Other financial firms hit with similar complaints have grumbled about a shakedown and settled.
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Remember the tobacco litigation and settlement, simultaneously a shakedown and a government-enforced cartel?
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"This is simply a shakedown for money," Foose said in an interview on Saturday.
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This is a shakedown, a mob protection racket, with Puerto Rico a captive market.
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But the opacity of the process has led others to call it a shakedown.
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Critics said the campaign amounted to a power play and shakedown of political rivals.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) was in an extended post-shakedown availability.
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Yesterday, he was arrested for what prosecutors said was an attempted shakedown of Nike.
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"In another era, we might have called this a shakedown," Geragos said of the lawsuit.
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It assumes the new tech on the iPhone 8 won't need any extra shakedown time.
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Your next project, drum 'n' bass group Urban Shakedown, was signed to Paul Weller's label.
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In another case, author Daniel Bergner complained of a brazen shakedown at the warden's hands.
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Their shutdown shakedown did not work, and government was reopened with no resolution to DACA.
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"Burstein's shakedown was so brazen that it was tantamount to extortion," the sanctions brief said.
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Adam Schiff of a doing a "classic, mafia-like shakedown" in his dealings with Ukraine.
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It seems clear to me that the president of Ukraine was subjected to a shakedown.
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And the way the wall is financed now could determine how the shakedown plays out.
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One wayward driver in Mexico was certain his wrong turn had invited a police shakedown.
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Twelve days after the hearing, Fischl's company (a tier of cells) had a seemingly routine shakedown.
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In Greenpeace's case, these corporations see boycott pressure from its constituents as a form of shakedown.
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"Schiff has characterized Trump's call with Zelensky as a "classic Mafia shakedown of a foreign leader.
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"I didn't know he was a minor until the shakedown letter," one of the texts reads.
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The move caused a major shakedown of the rankings, with Thomas 1:12 behind France's Alaphilippe.
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Critics said it amounted to a power play and shakedown of the crown prince's political rivals.
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Jost: This week, President Trump was accused of a shady, mafia-style shakedown of the Ukraine.
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It was criticised as a power play and shakedown of the crown prince's potential political rivals.
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Meanwhile, a number of service members were also reporting shakedown calls to military investigators and police.
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In his shakedown cruise, he has had the advantage of a majority government and a fragmented opposition.
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"President Trump has perfected the financial shakedown of seeking political influence as a way of life," Rep.
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We grow bored by the scene, and start to get our own cell ready for the shakedown.
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Still, a suspicious mind could also interpret all this public signaling as something like a shakedown instead.
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If the answer is "none," give your soul a shakedown by listening to the Atlanta-based quartet Algiers.
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He sees the lack of funding for the Shakedown as yet more evidence of an industry in decline.
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Trump's broader posture as a shakedown artist has deeply glitched out America's decades-long, delicate partnerships in Asia.
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"We are bringing forward the people who were direct witnesses and actors in the president's Ukraine shakedown," Rep.
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Last December, Spencer staked his career on finishing the elevators by the end of the post-shakedown availability.
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Grateful Dead shakedown shops and 80's hardcore zine fairs come to mind, but those were niche markets.
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Beyond finding Ms. Tirschwell's allegations hard to believe, Ms. Jackson suggested they had the look of a shakedown.
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His two previous Grateful Dead-inspired works include "Cumberland Blues," staged in 1998 and "Shakedown Street" in 2005.
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All of the evidence supports one central conclusion — Donald Trump developed and executed this shakedown strategy toward Ukraine.
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Public markets in the U.S. now allow a complete shakedown of shareholder rights that were championed for generations.
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That would be its first monthly fall since June and its worst month since a global shakedown in January.
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"The Mueller investigation was a shakedown and a disgrace," he told Geraldo Rivera for his "Roadkill" podcast on Thursday.
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Weintraub says Jean Paul's bitter Ray J's company is a soaring success and the suit's just a frivolous shakedown.
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Since every bit of time on the tight and tricky track mattered, though, drivers ran the shakedown session anyway.
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Rich Saudis, fearful of falling victim to another shakedown, are trying to move their money out of the country.
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Defenders insist there's no direct evidence linking Trump to any political shakedown of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky; Arizona Rep.
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"President Trump has perfected the financial shakedown of people seeking political influence as a way of life," said Rep.
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A decade later, and thwarted in yet another stadium shakedown, the Raiders returned to Oakland, which re-embraced them.
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"These were Mueller people, and the whole Mueller investigation was a shakedown and a disgrace," Trump said of the prosecutors.
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Goguen filed a counter complaint the following week, referring to the suit as a "shakedown" from a jilted ex-lover.
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"I get these shakedown letters quite a lot," Musk said, referring to a letter Unsworth's attorneys sent him in August.
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That test was Red Flag, the Air Force's annual, weeks-long, all-hands-on-deck, multinational shakedown of military aviation technology.
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"We were so excited to put them out," student Kayla Mays, co-editor of the The Shakedown, told the Indy Star.
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PIA said it grounded the flights after Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority decided to conduct "shakedown tests" of PIA's entire ATR fleet.
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" According to Ben Ammar and Maerov, Weinstein told the board that the whole incident "was a setup by a shakedown artist.
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His characterization of President Trump's call with Mr. Zelensky as a "classic organized crime shakedown" is easy for people to understand.
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To the Editor: As bad as President Trump's shakedown of a struggling Ukraine is, the House and Senate Republicans are worse.
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Critics said it amounted to a power play and a shakedown of the political rivals of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.
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Employers facing mass arbitration campaigns have been known to resort to words like "extortion" and "shakedown," to describe such negotiation requests.
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Some of its targets have been bad apples, but others have been ordinary businesses subjected, in effect, to clandestine shakedown operations.
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The government characterized the arrests as a crackdown on corruption but critics have called it a political purge and a shakedown.
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Some call it a shakedown: the Mubaraks are among the few old-regime figures who have yet to trade wealth for freedom.
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It's precisely this nebulousness of identities that reveals the limitations of our concepts — that makes Shakedown a thrilling and also valuable film.
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"In the past, you wouldn't hear back from other platforms for a few days," said Brian Provinciano, the creator of Shakedown Hawaii.
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"It's still a very young sport," said Brendan O'Dowd, who ran the Shakedown competition in southern Quebec for the past 14 years.
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" Numerous other outlets cited writer Michael Lewis's 20-year-old tirade against tipping, which he equated in some cases to a "shakedown.
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Alternately tragic, bittersweet and frightening, the film traces the consequences for the kids when a shakedown of a taxi driver goes sideways.
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If you're near Harrisburg, make a pit stop for sandwiches at the well-hidden ShakeDown BBQ (668 Firehouse Road, Grantville, Pa.; shakedownbbq.com).
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The 65 diamonds in Korniyets' apartment had been seized from a jewelry factory in a previous shakedown, according to the factory owner.
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And Nxivm, the cult that masqueraded as a quasi-feminist self-help group, gets another shakedown courtesy of reporters from the CBC.
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"As one of the most famous athletes in the country, Mr. Beckham presents an enticing target for shakedown artists," Beckham's suit reportedly says.
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"We've heard from three of his deputies who have provided consistent testimony on what was going on with this shakedown scheme," Swalwell said.
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Avenatti was arrested in New York, according to multiple reports, on separate charges related to an alleged effort to shakedown Nike for money.
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They called the plan "Orwellian," and said it was a "shakedown" that would hurt truck drivers, small businesses and middle-class Queens residents.
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Apple: Cramer wanted to prepare investors for the inevitable analyst-led shakedown of consumer products giant Apple after it reports earnings on Thursday.
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Roth's lawyer Ed McPherson says the whole thing is nothing more than a celebrity shakedown, although pics of the alleged attack look pretty gnarly.
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The Clintons appear to have operated an aggressive shakedown operation of domestic and foreign interests, including Russian, many of which are unsavory and criminal.
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The other contends that banks have been the victims of a capricious and unjustified shakedown, driven entirely by politics, with little opportunity for redress.
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The deal, reported by The Sacramento Bee on Sunday, which called it "a shakedown," provoked a fierce outcry across the state and the country.
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The team said in a statement on Friday that an initial shakedown run will take place in private at Silverstone circuit on Feb. 14.
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"What those notes reflect is a classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader," said Democrat Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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"What those notes reflect is a classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader," said Democrat Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Go deeper: Schiff calls Trump-Ukraine call a "classic Mafia-like shakedown" This story has been updated with additional comments from Schiff and Ratcliffe.
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Others have called it a shakedown, noting that the detainees were denied access to their lawyers and could not negotiate freely or defend themselves.
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Mr Moro is investigating whether he benefited from the shakedown of Petrobras, which appears to have started while he was president from 20.5 to 22.5.
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"The Ukraine shakedown was not some kind of aberration but rather the expression of the complete policy on the part of the president," Raskin added.
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It's a shakedown by a $22013-billion company that's pitting communities—out of desperation for jobs or prestige—against one another in a bleak competition.
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He described the shakedown of techies as the best and worst of Nigeria colliding, when it comes to shifting perceptions and stereotypes of the country.
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And some advertisers are openly challenging search ads as a "shakedown" and "ransom" by the tech giant, which controls about 90 percent of web search.
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Shakedown explores the world of underground lesbian clubs in Los Angeles that were owned and run by Black women throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Senator Chris Murphy said Trump was "preying on a vulnerable foreign nation" for "personal political benefit," while Senator Jack Reed accused Trump of a shakedown.
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"We saw further evidence that there was a shadow shakedown, and I would say, the lead deputy for the president was Rudy Giuliani," said Rep.
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Now that Democrats control the House of Representatives, they will have the power to give tech leaders their own, liberal version of the Silicon Valley shakedown.
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In January 2016, during the Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose Twitter shakedown, West Tweeted some serious slams at his ex and her then-boyfriend .
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On Tuesday, Carrey's legal team filed court paperwork obtained by PEOPLE, in which the actor dismisses White's mother's wrongful death lawsuit against him as a 'shakedown.
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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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The team carried out a brief 'shakedown' of the car in Barcelona on Saturday but Ferrari had the circuit to themselves on Sunday for private filming.
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Consider the following scenario, which would have seemed wildly implausible only a few months ago: Donald Trump is forced from office over the Ukraine-Biden shakedown.
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Singer also doubles down on what Carrey already told us -- that he will NOT settle with Burton and will fight what they consider a "shakedown lawsuit."
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Solid Oak's lawsuit amounts to a shakedown and copyright trolling, said a law professor, Christopher Jon Sprigman, who teaches about intellectual property at New York University.
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Weinraub shot over 400 hours of footage at Shakedown beginning in 2002, starting with still photography and moving to film and interviews with the club's dancers.
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There is rare unanimity among both the progressives in government and the conservative opposition that America is engaged in an unacceptable shakedown of a longstanding ally.
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They need to rebrand Trump's alleged transgressions with a term that most Americans don't need to Google to understand -- one with teeth. Bribery. Extortion. Payola. Shakedown.
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Then there's Shakedown, directed by the CEO of streetwear brand Hood by Air, which takes us into the underground world of Black lesbian stripclubs in Los Angeles.
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" In the Globe and Mail, Sarah Kendzior argued that Trump's encounters with Comey sounded like "a cross between a Mafia shakedown and an audition for The Apprentice.
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"I don't think Xi Jinping deliberately tried to do a shakedown of Obama upon his arrival," said Zhang Baohui, a professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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"You own the space," said the artist N.D. Austin who opened the tiny tavern, the Threesome Tollbooth, on Friday night after a shakedown run of several months.
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On finding an audience Shakedown has a small theatrical release in the UK in November, but I'm looking for a way to distribute the film in America.
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Conceptual artist Leilah Weinraub's 2018 documentary Shakedown is now available to stream for free on Pornhub (that link is safe for work, but is still on Pornhub).
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Even if no other witnesses had come forward to testify, Trump's own words are enough to merit impeachment based on the Ukraine shakedown and obstruction of Congress.
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The boy's lawyer, Mahmoud Al Shinawy, calls the case a revenge plot against the father, an affluent businessman who had refused to submit to a police shakedown.
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Go deeper: Schiff calls Trump-Ukraine call a "classic Mafia-like shakedown" Trump vents frustration that Ukraine drama overshadowed UN trip The call heard 'round the world
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Perry said Favorov told him he was concerned about the nature of the offer, likening it to a shakedown of management that also had little chance of success.
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And, moreover, YouTubers are rarely as inane and uncreative as the latest Tom Cruise summer flick or yet another shakedown of the Pirates of the Caribbean money tree.
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Bill Nelson, a Democratic senator who requested the study and sits on the committee that oversees the airline industry, has described the charges as a "last-minute shakedown".
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It entered common parlance in the late 1970s, particularly after the publication of "Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job" by Lin Farley in 1978.
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Recorded around 2003–2004 in lo-fi camcorder quality, Shakedown follows the strippers—called "angels"—as they balance their real life personas with their lives on the dancefloor.
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On Monday, PIA grounded its fleet of 10 European-made ATR planes after Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority decided to conduct "shakedown tests" of the carrier's entire ATR fleet.
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"After a challenging post-shakedown availability at Newport News Shipbuilding, the crew is excited to turn their hardhats in and get Warship 78 back out to sea," Capt.
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Certainly, this could just be the shakedown cruise common in tech booms, the point where something that claims to "change everything" ends up changing just a few things.
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Mr. Schiff never said Mr. Trump did nothing wrong, but rather described Mr. Trump's conduct as a "classic organized crime shakedown" and "a real betrayal" of national security.
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Without an actual tape of Trump ordering a shakedown of Ukraine -- and maybe even with one -- Republicans will not be shaken in their cultlike devotion to the president.
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Once you accept the possibility that this bust was for profit, not just for justice, then suddenly the unsealed court files can look like MTV Cribs: Shakedown Edition.
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Much less loudly, they also complain that the CRA has been a sort of shakedown, in which they must satisfy political needs rather than meet well-defined regulatory standards.
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One of the last shot is of the dancers exiting the club after their last performance, leaving us with a bitter ending and the breakup of the Shakedown Angels.
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Some right-wing MPs see the foreign-aid budget as ripe for a shakedown, an idea that has gained traction following a scandal at one big charity (see article).
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The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is concluding its post-shakedown availability, a 15-month extended maintenance availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding in Norfolk, Virginia.
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" In the text messages to her friend, though ... Asia admits to sex with Bennett but claims she didn't know he was a minor until he sent a "shakedown letter.
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If Blackhawks-Blues draws a 1.7 rating, the NHL should commit to one huge 15-game shakedown in 2017-18 before having an outdoor game sabbatical the following season.
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And he sent a letter to the governor of Massachusetts complaining that the state was engaged in a "shakedown" of Maine drivers who did not pay tolls on time.
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Apollo 28 was a shakedown cruise in Earth orbit, with the command module and the lunar lander practicing the orbital rendezvous that would be necessary for the moon mission.
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" House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said at a news conference Wednesday that the President's call amounted to a "classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader.
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Critics say the government's campaign amounts to a shakedown and is aimed at shoring up the crown prince's power base as he exerts control over the world's leading oil exporter.
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Per the traditional shakedown model of garment-sector labor relations, Jaba Garmindo promptly stopped paying wages owed to the factory's former workforce, and withheld all severance from them as well.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reads like a "classic mafia-like shakedown," House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
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What is billed as justice for climate change is just a big city shakedown routine, filing their coffers at the expense of hardworking Americans in energy producing states like Pennsylvania.
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Not only that, but this is the third show the writer Michael Norman Mann has created using the Dead's catalog, after "Cumberland Blues" in 1998 and "Shakedown Street" in 2005.
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The Ocean Cleanup towed "System 001" under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific just after Labor Day, first parking it about 200 miles offshore for an initial shakedown period.
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"Individuals who have served their time or were arrested but found not guilty, should not be subjected to what amounts to a shakedown by these websites," McKnight wrote in an email.
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She has danced in drag shows like Dimes for Divas for over 30 years, and it was she who urged Ronnie Ron, herself a forceful presence, to start regular Shakedown sessions.
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Over at Let's Play Video Games, a PS4 Slim—that the site says was acquired on eBay—gets a nuts-and-bolts shakedown, from unboxing and to on-screen set-up.
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If it is, I hope you have a very credible reason to do it besides just doing a shakedown, or to stand outside your integrity for the sake of media perception.
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For his fellow royals, the rapid rise of this young and modestly educated son of King Salman has been something of a mixed bag, ranging from arrest to shakedown to promotion.
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Schiff immediately hit back at Trump on Twitter on Friday, accusing him of engaging in "a shakedown to get election dirt from a foreign country" and trying to cover it up.
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Schiff has characterized Trump's call with Zelensky as a "classic organized crime shakedown," and took that analogy further in a contentious hearing Thursday with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.
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Midway through "Shoplifters," Kore-eda has revealed just enough about the family — there's a scramble from authority and an amusingly cunning shakedown — that it no longer seems to hold much mystery.
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In another indication that Russia was seeing a high-level shakedown at the FSB, Kommersant reported that on January 13, the director of the Center for Information Security, Andrei Gerasimov, was fired.
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This pre-worship shakedown routine began junior year of high-school, after my Volkswagen Cabrio and I misjudged the height of a snowdrift late one night and thought we could clear it.
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Schiff has accused Trump of a mob-like "shakedown" of Ukraine's president and defended himself amid the president's criticism, saying he became a target because he first raised alarm about the complaint.
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Jessica Lessin, founder and editor of news website the Information, called the suit a "shakedown," and, in a decision handed down Tuesday in Santa Monica, Judge Mark A. Young dismissed the complaint.
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Every minute the news focuses on whether the White House should turn over documents is a minute the news is not focused on Trump's attempt to shakedown a foreign leader for personal gain.
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After revisiting these underwater tours of Arizona, check out the NOAA's live stream of the Okeanos team performing "shakedown" cruises, exploring two Japanese mini submarines which were sunk before the aerial attacks began.
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Saleh and Saad Bin Laden were released last year under the anti-corruption campaign, which netted princes and ministers, shattered investor confidence and was decried by critics as a shakedown and power play.
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The transcript of a shakedown call Trump made to the Ukrainian president in July was moved to a highly classified server, and the president appeared to direct subordinates to deceive about the incident.
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His lawyers countered that the girl's mother beat her into complying with the fraudulent criminal claims, as part of an attempted shakedown of Maraj's superstar singer, according to Newsday's account of the proceedings.
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Basecamp CEO and co-founder Jason Fried sounded off against the practice Tuesday, calling it a "shakedown" and saying it's like ransom to have to pay up just to be seen in results.
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On how making Shakedown helped her find herself [When I was making the film,] I'd go into those interviews with an agenda, but I'd have to also be open to that agenda changing.
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But Dan Gilbert, the team's billionaire owner, and N.B.A. executives can take solace in having capitalized on James's success to pull off a perfectly legal shakedown of a not-so-economically-healthy city.
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House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) compared the president to a "Mafia boss" engaging in a "classic organized crime shakedown" after the transcript of Trump's call with the Ukrainian president came out.
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Now Mexico finds itself facing the biggest shakedown of all from north of the Rio Grande, as the United States president demands $12 billion to $15 billion to pay for a border wall.
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But even if it isn't conclusive evidence of a shakedown, such a tape of the conversation is likely to show that Mr. Trump, like Mr. Nixon, used his presidential powers against political opponents.
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House Democrats released the texts after deposing Volker for more than eight hours behind closed doors, in which Volker provided "further evidence that there was a shadow shakedown going on," according to Rep.
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Shortly after unveiling his shakedown scheme, Mayor de Blasio seemed to have admitted that he was grasping at straws, acknowledging — per the New York Times — that the lawsuits could take years to conclude.
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"The scheduled 2244-month PSA/SRA will install remaining combat systems, complete deferred work and correct remaining discrepancies identified during sea trials and shakedown," William Couch, Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman told Warrior Maven.
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Matt leads a group of officers, including Harlee, whose members work a shakedown racket, convincing themselves that they're serving the public good by keeping criminals in check, drugs away from schools and so on.
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Michelle Burress, an English teacher and media advisor at Plainfield High School, is facing criticism from the school board after her publishing class distributed the first issue of their student-run magazine, The Shakedown.
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This only makes sense as a shakedown if we assume Trump has badly miscalculated the politics—but if he's miscalculated the politics, he presumably thinks he has a much stronger hand than he does.
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The Edelson allegations certainly track with claims last year by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, which accused Bandas of a shakedown after he filed an objection to the firm's $75.5 million TCPA settlement with CapitalOne.
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This includes Pornhub Art, the project Shakedown is a part of, and their Visionaries Director's Club, which includes films by Brooklyn rapper Young M.A and actress Bella Thorne (neither link is safe for work).
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Perhaps Unsworth's burn that Musk's building of the mini-sub for the rescue was a "PR stunt" so insulted Musk that he decided this was the "shakedown letter" he decided to take to court.
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Federal authorities say he ran an old-school shakedown, threatening to stall city permissions to remodel a fast-food restaurant unless the owner hired Mr. Burke's private law firm for real-estate tax work.
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So far, Miami-Dade, Fernandina Beach and Miami Beach have all eliminated minor pot offenses from their law enforcement's shakedown repertoire, while this novel concept is currently under consideration by the St. Petersburg City Council.
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I would be disappointed if you as a group believe that we have invested in entrepreneurs that would take advantage of such an unfortunate situation without knowing full facts to renegotiate and do a shakedown.
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On Tuesday, Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood made an announcement on Twitter and Facebook: The band had been "hacked," and the perpetrator attempted a $150,000 shakedown to prevent the public release of the files.
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That year, Kim Jong Il, the father of the current youthful despot and second hereditary ruler of the dystopian dynasty that is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, set a new standard in international shakedown.
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"We cannot test like this," the team's double world champion Fernando Alonso, who was all smiles after giving the new MCL33 a shakedown on home asphalt in northern Spain last Friday, commented over the radio.
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Weinraub stitched together the film using over fifteen years of footage, starting in 2002 when she became the in-house Shakedown filmographer, and long after the club night was officially shuttered by authorities in 2004.
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In what has been called a "protection racket" and a "blatant shakedown," President Donald Trump is again pressuring South Korea to increase its contribution to the costs of maintaining US military bases in the country.
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At least Hoffa believes in something, corrupt though his methods may be; Sheeran believes in nothing but the next kill or shakedown — and ends the film alone in a nursing home, staring into the abyss.
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Locking up his own family members in a corruption shakedown at a five-star hotel isn't democracy as we know it, but most of them were able to walk away, tribal dignity and honor intact.
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Leilah Weinraub, its chief executive, is focusing on her filmmaking; her film "Shakedown," about the Los Angeles black lesbian strip-club scene, is included in this year's Whitney Biennial, and will be screened in May.
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Photo: GettyCalifornia's two net neutrality bills are poised to become one, offering the state's 40 million residents comprehensive protection against internet service provider trying to shakedown businesses and subscribers in the wake of the FCC repeal.
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Their Republican colleagues have now said that Trump abused his powers as president to extort and shakedown the Ukrainians to dig up dirt on a political opponent by withholding military aid and a White House meeting.
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Without net neutrality, they predict, consumers could end up paying more money for less bandwidth, while tech companies that have come to depend on fast connections could be faced with a shakedown: Pay up or choke.
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Check out our documentary about debtors' prisons in America Darron Yates, a 48-year old black man unemployed save for the occasional odd job, recalled a court-ordered shakedown that began one evening this past January.
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At a time when a number of other online small business lenders like OnDeck and Can Capital have stumbled under iffy business models, amid a wider shakedown in the online loan industry overall, Kabbage has grown.
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The week-long sea trials, the last step as the ship concludes its post-shakedown availability (PSA), will be followed by a quick return to port and then 18 months of post-delivery tests and trials.
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From what I have read, it seems clear that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was subjected to a shakedown — pressured to become a foreign participant in President Trump's re-election campaign, a violation of the law.
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Allegations of wrongdoing are flying around — a record of a July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reads more like a mafia shakedown than a conversation between two world leaders.
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THE weeks before the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin on August 15th are shakedown time in Naples: one of three moments in the year when traders can expect their neighbourhood mobsters to collect protection money.
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In fact, the Treasury Department has rolled out a series of Ukraine-related sanctions on Russian individuals and entities, and as far as we know, that program never got mixed up in Trump's bribery and shakedown schemes.
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FanDuel, like all of the other companies known to have been targeted in Keller Lenkner mass arbitrations, contends that the plaintiffs' firm is engaged in a shakedown, attempting to leverage requisite arbitration fees to extract a settlement.
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To be clear: His choices, what Trump did with the information — the withholding of aid money, the alleged shakedown of the Ukrainian president, the claims that it was a "perfect" phone call — that's all his own doing.
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The films move from the offices of an international accounting firm (Pilvi Takala's The Trainee) to a quick-paced Chinese factory (Cao Fei's 11:11) to the planning of a weekly lesbian party in LA (Leilah Weinraub's SHAKEDOWN).
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Ocon, who is team mate to Australian Daniel Ricciardo, drove the Renault for the first time at a limited mileage 'shakedown' at the Barcelona circuit on Monday and the 23-year-old said even that had been impressive.
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The only reason the plot was aborted was that a whistle-blower from the intelligence community drew attention to the president's plan, forcing him to release the money to Ukraine — moments before his shakedown exploded into public view.
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They're not even sure whether they want Rudy Giuliani, a key player in the attempted Ukraine shakedown, to testify, because he might melt down—and they think Giuliani melting down before Congress would be politically damaging to Democrats.
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The drug cartel Los Compasivos controlled a majority interest in the boardwalk and its environs, and, while a shakedown of the boy's booth was rare, the smack addicts left in the cartel's wake made for a poor clientele.
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"It is placing his interest before the American people, it is a breach of the public trust, it is a form of extortion, it's a shakedown, it has all the makings of a mob activity," she told CNBC.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), a new construction which was initially expected to be delivered last year but may not have full capability for a few more years, is preparing to leave its post-shakedown availability (PSA).
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But the practiced I.O.C. shakedown of cities, the demands that local officials compete to construct obscenely expensive stadiums and news media centers and to guarantee that tourist zones have been swept of the desperate, has rarely looked more problematic.
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But I'm no fortuneteller: I asserted that the Olympics were already a public calamity for many citizens, especially for those affected by the evictions, by police brutality and by the anti-democratic shakedown of an unequal and segregated city.
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That it now concerns a "Mafia-like shakedown" orchestrated by one of Wilson's successors tells us something about the trajectory of American politics over the course of the last century and it has not been a story of ascent.
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He has presented the arrests as a campaign against corruption, but his targets call it a shakedown, and he has turned for advice to a former Egyptian security chief who has been pilloried at home for brutality and graft.
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It is virtually certain there will be an article on abuse of power, one on bribery for the alleged Ukraine "shakedown" (which Trump denies) and one more on obstruction of Congress for the unprecedented stonewalling of several House committees.
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The 35-year-old Briton pointed to Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas, handed the first laps in the sleek W11 car at a private shakedown session at Silverstone circuit on Friday, when asked who would be his biggest challenger.
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This round of testing is allowing the crew to further test the improvements made during its post-shakedown availability (PSA) at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding while also allowing the crew to gain experience on these unique systems.
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This round of testing will allow the crew to further test the improvements made during its post-shakedown availability (PSA) at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding while also allowing the crew to gain experience on these unique systems.
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DoorDash's lawyers described a "shakedown scheme" in which Keller Lenkner approached the company with a letter vowing to file thousands of arbitration demands – with fees approaching $20 million – unless DoorDash chose to discuss an alternative resolution of workers' claims.
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Spencer, Modly&aposs predecessor, had previously staked his job on getting the Ford working properly, promising President Trump that he would get the elevators working by the end of the post-shakedown availability or the president could fire him.
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Shovel Knight's new prequel chapter is exclusive to Switch for a month, and upcoming titles like Steamworld Dig 2, Graceful Explosion Machine, Runner3, and Retro City Rampage follow-up Shakedown Hawaii will all launch on Nintendo's console before anywhere else.
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A possible shakedown The Energy Department did not say whether Perry, who as secretary has been deeply involved with Ukraine and its critical energy industry, was aware of the activities of Parnas and Fruman to influence Naftogaz on the management level.
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It was completed earlier this year, and has been on a shakedown cruise since then: researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ran astrophysics, climate, and precision medicine simulations on Sierra while ferreting out bad components and other technical hiccups.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a video and "fact sheet" that may give hints about the articles of impeachment - formal charges - Democrats may pursue against Republican Trump, accusing him of abuse of power, a "shakedown" involving Ukraine and a cover-up.
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The double world champion, who gave the new papaya orange and blue car a trouble-free shakedown at the Navarra circuit in northern Spain on Friday, stepped out of the stranded car as marshals waved red flags to halt the session.
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EMALS and the AAG, as they&aposre known, have had problems, but the Ford has done more than 70 successful launches and landings with them on this cruise, which follows improvements made during the carrier&aposs protracted post-shakedown availability.
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The only suspense here is whether the eye-popping disclosures in John Bolton's memoir — the ones telling us, for the umpteenth time, that Trump is lying through his teeth about his shakedown of Ukraine — will sway any of the Republican senators.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanFormer GOP senator to Republicans: Trump subjected Ukraine leader to a 'shakedown' Impeachment inquiry: It's a question of who should run the show Juan Williams: Trump has nothing left but smears MORE, a White House expert on Ukraine.
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They may acquire unused patents or they may patent general or obvious ideas — like the basic credit card and podcast patents that I mentioned — and use them to shakedown those who inadvertently stumbled into their unjustifiably patented territory, patent traps.
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"A suit and tie doesn't mask the fact that at its core this was an old-fashioned shakedown," Geoffrey Berman, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York told reporters in March after announcing the charges against the attorney.
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The audio company's CEO is testifying at noon for the House Judiciary Committee, alongside executives from PopSockets, Tile, and Basecamp — all of which have complained about copying, unfair pressure, or even a "shakedown" at the hands of big Silicon Valley companies.
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According to the Miami Herald, which spoke with several passengers about the particularly soggy shakedown in question, it works like this: After completing a ride, a diver fraudulently reports the passenger to Uber as having thrown up in the car.
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Within a month of the shakedown, agents had done a deep dive into Corbally's background and uncovered the Corbally family's secret: The Corbally Detective Agency, opened in Newark in the 1920s by Tom's grandfather, had deep connections to New Jersey underworld figures.
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The very first episode, directed by legendary Game of Thrones director Michelle MacLaren, who also executive produces the series, begins with your basic money shakedown: Vincent (James Franco) gets mugged just after he's "dropped" the night cash from one of his two jobs.
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Bin Laden was one of the most high-profile figures arrested in November 2017 on the orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a purge that also netted princes and ministers and was decried by critics as a shakedown and power play.
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In January, following nearly 15 months in detention, Bakr became the last of his brothers to be released after an anti-corruption campaign that netted princes and ministers, shattered investor confidence and was decried by critics as a shakedown and power play.
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For Japan, whose prime minister has spent considerable energy and personal dignity courting Trump, the shakedown coincides with several other key alliance discussions, including on the very sensitive topic of whether American missiles are likely to come to Japanese soil anytime soon.
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The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford is billions of dollars over budget, years behind schedule, and potentially months away from fixing a problem that was expected to be solved by the conclusion of its post-shakedown availability at the end of October.
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Investigators discovered during the course of the scandal that the Nixon campaign had effectively run a shakedown operation against major American companies, extracting millions in illegal donations for a re-election slush fund by threatening greater IRS scrutiny or promising favorable regulatory treatment.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is wrapping up its post-shakedown availability and set sail last Friday for sea trials, a short evaluation process which will be followed by 18 months of post-delivery tests and trials in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Federal authorities have accused the City Council's longest-serving alderman, Ed Burke, of running an old-school shakedown, even as the local news media reported that a second alderman had cooperated with the authorities, secretly recording his conversations at City Hall for months.
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Recently, the CEO of a popular software program, Basecamp, called Google's paid search ads a "shakedown," arguing that the only way his otherwise No. 1 search result can rank at the top of the search results page is to buy an ad.
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He argued that Democrats shouldn't accuse Trump of bribery for his Ukraine shakedown unless it meets the statutory definition, even though a 2014 Washington Post op-ed essay by one Jonathan Turley made clear that criminal statutes aren't controlling in the impeachment process.
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The controversy overshadowed the launch on Monday of May's "Modern Industrial Strategy", a central plank of her plans to rebalance Britain's economy as it leaves the EU. The so-called "demonstration and shakedown operation" happened in June, shortly before May became prime minister.
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Having conceded their original defence (that there was no shakedown), Mr Trump and his supporters have therefore fallen back on a line that takes less account of the Ukrainian matter in hand: the president is the victim of a vast left-wing conspiracy.
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Once the shakedown cruise is over, it will take two or three weeks to tow the system another 1,000 nautical miles to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where they'll see if it actually collects plastic and if it can survive harsh winter storms.
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As well as the inevitable tit-for-tat attacks, those involved in that world are now more likely to be armed and dangerous, whether police decide to conduct a mass shakedown or not because, in 2018, their life is more at risk.
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This rule -- or some version of it -- is ancient but it really grew teeth in 1961 in the case of Mapp v Ohio when the Supreme Court said the rule applied in a convoluted case connected to the attempted shakedown of boxing promoter Don King.
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Indeed, Riyadh saw its foreign investment figures drop dramatically in 275, the same year that the powerful crown prince ordered a so-called anti-corruption shakedown, detaining hundreds of Saudi royals and businessmen in the Ritz Carlton hotel and confiscating large portions of their finances.
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He sees evidence of a shakedown in the timing of the Cayman suit, which came just as the firm was dealing with regulators over the planned move of its headquarters to Switzerland—and therefore more likely to pay to make the suit go away.
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Prosecutors said Avenatti's alleged effort to shakedown Nike for millions of dollars kicked off in earnest last Tuesday, and quickly escalated over the next two days as he threatened to hold a press conference accusing the company of being involved in bribing amateur basketball players.
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The day's two witnesses, George Kent and William Taylor, both deeply experienced diplomats, provided precise, scrupulously nonpartisan and damning testimony about the effort at the center of the inquiry: the secretive shakedown of Ukraine by Mr. Trump and his associates, for the president's political gain.
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Last Friday, CVN-78 set sail for sea trials as it wraps up a post-shakedown availability that officials characterized as "action packed" and "challenging," due largely to the difficulties the Navy and the shipbuilder have encountered developing and integrating the Advanced Weapons Elevators.
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" "Senate Democrats refused to fund the government unless we agreed to their demands on something entirely unrelated," Republican speaker Paul Ryan said, addressing the House on Saturday, adding that "it is a shakedown strategy that Senate Democrats have been talked into by their base.
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Imprisoned in the luxurious confines of the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, they were gradually released in what looked like a shakedown rather than any genuine legal process -- but only after huge sums of money had been extracted from them, according to the New York Times.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanDirector of National Intelligence Maguire should stand for the whistleblower Adam Schiff's star rises with impeachment hearings Former GOP senator to Republicans: Trump subjected Ukraine leader to a 'shakedown' MORE and other witnesses not to say anything that could reveal the individual's identity.
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House Republicans have seized on Schiff's exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown, as well as a New York Times report that a whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide.
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It's "a shakedown, a mob protection racket, with Puerto Rico a captive market," as Nelson A. Denis, a former New York State Assembly member and author of War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, wrote in the New York Times.
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Needless to say, having a clause like this in your pocket is a wonderful thing if you're an owner, since it means you can escape any commitment you made to stick around town in order to get your original stadium and begin the shakedown cycle anew.
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Indeed, while he's not sure how much he can do to help Cloudflare, which has a Boston office, a bill that Senator Lesser helped craft will be heard in committee next Tuesday, and it would put a serious crimp in what he calls "shakedown operations" more broadly.
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While Geragos is not charged with Avenatti, he has been identified as the person who prosecutors in court papers claim acted as a co-conspirator in Avenatti's alleged scheme to shakedown Nike in the past week by threatening to expose damaging information about the sneaker giant.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanDirector of National Intelligence Maguire should stand for the whistleblower Adam Schiff's star rises with impeachment hearings Former GOP senator to Republicans: Trump subjected Ukraine leader to a 'shakedown' MORE was the whistleblower's "handler," a thinly disguised accusation of disloyalty at best, espionage at worst.
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Critics decry the campaign as a shakedown and power play by the 32-year-old heir to the throne, who is aiming to wean Saudi Arabia off reliance on oil revenues and modernize the deeply conservative kingdom by sponsoring public concerts and lifting bans on cinemas and women driving.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is behind schedule, over budget, and still a ways from fixing the weapons elevators that were expected to be ready by the time the first-in-class aircraft carrier leaves Norfolk Naval Shipyard at the end of its post-shakedown availability later this month.
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Developer bootcamps — several-month training programs that are designed to help people get up to speed with the technical skills they need to become a developer — exploded in popularity in the early part of the decade, but there's been a bit of a shakedown on the space recently.
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" US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman issued this statement: "While the defendant may have tried to hide behind legal terms and a suit and tie," the statement said, "the jury clearly saw the defendant's scheme for what it was -- an old fashioned shakedown.
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But a daily drip of new revelations and impeachment related bombshells in recent days have made life even less pleasant for GOP senators, for instance when indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas implicated the President in the shakedown of the Kiev government in a pair of television interviews.
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"It is shocking at another level that the White House would release these notes and felt that this somehow this would help the president's case or cause, because what those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader," Schiff said during a press conference.
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Simmons' lawyer says in court papers he believes this is nothing more than a shakedown, and that "only after hearing that women were able to recover money for real abuse by sexual predators, did Ms. Jarosik decide to see if she could extract large amounts of money" from him.
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Even when the White House does, on occasion, suggest they will buck the donor class — as when officials hint that approving the AT&T–Time Warner merger may be contingent on CNN covering Trump more favorably — they are quite open about saying it's a shakedown designed to advance Trump's personal interests.
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If there's no proof of the mob-shakedown described by Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffNunes's facial expression right before lawmakers took break from Sondland testimony goes viral Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep Maloney wins House Oversight gavel MORE (R-Calif.), there's also no proof it didn't happen.
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At the same time, I feel I must also help bring to light many of the aggressive, shakedown practices that these associations use at the expense of hardworking companies, many of which have no idea that unlicensed software is being used and would be happy to purchase it, had they known.
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Days after the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford sailed out of a "challenging" post-shakedown work period that was extended three months because of maintenance problems, the dry dock holding the second Ford-class carrier, the John F. Kennedy, was flooded, launching the carrier three months early.
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Reactionary forces abound, not least within the sprawling royal family, some of whom Prince Mohammed locked up in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel in November, with not a fig leaf of due process, in a display of Shakespearean anti-corruption theater that was also a shakedown and a ruthless assertion of power.
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Gaetz read passages from an interview with Anton Yermak, an adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he denied a "shakedown" by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon SondlandGordon SondlandRepublicans eschew any credible case against impeachment Conservative group hits White House with billboard ads: 'What is Trump hiding?
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Li Zhuang, a Chongqing lawyer and vehement Bo critic who was jailed for two years and six months after defending suspected mafia bosses, said Bo and Wang's purported organized crime sweep resulted in "large numbers of unjust and false charges" and led to a shakedown of many legitimate and innocent business people.
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After the release of the partial transcript, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffDemocrats express alarm over whistleblower complaint, but offer few details Trump seeks to shift questions from impeachment at UN House Intel member calls whistleblower complaint 'deeply disturbing' MORE (D-Calif.) compared Trump's request to a mob boss shakedown.
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One man's murder cast a new light on the smearing and harassment of dozens of dissenters abroad and their detention at home, a campaign run by MBS' main "fixer" at the Royal Court, the indifference to civilian suffering in Yemen, the shakedown of the corrupt at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh last November.
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" Chinese state media took a more bellicose tone, with China Daily warning: "The Trump administration is behaving like a gang of hoodlums with its shakedown of other countries, particularly China," adding the tariffs "have set off the largest trade war in economic history, demonstrating a typical hegemonic attitude against the rules of world trade.
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While testimony from Bolton and other potential witnesses might extend the impeachment circus for a few days or weeks, depending on how the President's claims to executive privilege are resolved, no new and substantive information relevant to the alleged Ukrainian shakedown or other offenses outlined in the two articles of impeachment is likely to emerge.
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From Lady Gaga's triumphant performance of "Til It Happens to You" alongside sexual assault survivors at the Academy Awards in February, to Beyoncé's complete and utter internet shakedown with Lemonade in April, and Taylor Swift making bank despite not releasing an album this year, there were plenty of moments that had us cheering for the ladies like never before.
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Rain came, went, and came back again all the way up until the early evening "shakedown" session, which is when drivers get a handful of laps to see what the track looks like, and the series organizers get a chance to make sure everything — from the track to the assembly of the cars — is in race shape.
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Congress punts a continuing resolution for a matter of months and then waits for the last possible moment to vote on appropriations, thereby setting up the threat of a government shutdown in order to shakedown and extort the other party into making a deal that, again, will only last months before the whole process repeats itself.
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When the government detained many prominent Saudi businessmen, government ministers and royal family members at the Riyadh Ritz last year, headlines in the West called it a power grab by the crown price and a financial shakedown, but many Saudis — especially young, ambitious Saudis — saw it as a sign that the government might be addressing corruption seriously, finally.
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Having alienated many foreign investors over his thinly-disguised shakedown of the country's rich and powerful, and alleged involvement in the Khashoggi affair, the heir apparent's sense of isolation would be close to complete if it were not for the continuing support of much of the Saudi population, particularly the young, who have embraced his social reforms.
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Read more: Half the US Navy's aircraft carrier fleet can't deploy, but the service says it has what it needs to maintain the fleetSpencer promised last year that the elevators would be ready to go by the time the Ford concluded its post-shakedown availability (PSA), which was supposed to end in July but was extended out to October.
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NEW YORK — When I arrived at New York's JFK Airport on Thursday after spending a few days outside a coronavirus hot zone in Italy, I was expecting a shakedown: a temperature check at customs and some questions about where exactly in the region I'd been and if I had come into contact with any sick people during my stay.
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Alexander VindmanAlexander VindmanFormer GOP senator to Republicans: Trump subjected Ukraine leader to a 'shakedown' Impeachment inquiry: It's a question of who should run the show Juan Williams: Trump has nothing left but smears MORE, a combat veteran with a Purple Heart from his time in Iraq, is accused of being in the "deep state" by Sen.
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Trump and the GOP have seized on Schiff's mid-hearing exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukraine to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown, as well as a New York Times report that a whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide, which Republicans have used to allege without evidence that Schiff helped coordinate the complaint.
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Trump and the GOP are targeting Schiff's mid-hearing exaggerated rendition of Trump's phone call with Ukraine to make it sound like a mob boss shakedown and invoking a New York Times report that the whistleblower sought guidance from an Intelligence Committee aide, which Republicans have used to allege without evidence that Schiff helped write the complaint.
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