"It's illegal for Metro employees to be shaken down," Ackerson said.
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Companies such as Acacia Mining have been shaken down for huge tax bills.
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Instead of being shaken down, you were taken on a plush, interior ride; your
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Enforcement is inconsistent: One might be stopped and shaken down or let off if uncooperative.
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Some were shaken down in backroom immigration offices or at the airport when they arrived.
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Mr Sinik decided who got killed in Medan and who should merely be shaken down for money.
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When industrious growers are shaken down by gangsters it is crazy to hit them in their wallets again.
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Everybody is flying blind, waiting to be shaken down by someone who claims that their work has been infringed.
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Dealings with the authorities increasingly take place online, where it is harder to get shaken down for a bribe.
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No more would they be dragged to police stations and shaken down for bribes to avoid six-month jail terms.
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The UFC honcho says multiple people working on the UFC 224 event were shaken down for phones, wallets and passports.
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"It is so completely normal to be shaken down ... that he didn't even bother to check up before sending the money," he told Reuters.
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Musk refused to be shaken down over a tweet, so his team hired someone who approached them with information and they thought was a legitimate investigator.
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"She apparently can't decide whether the president has shaken down the president of another country for his own political purposes," Hirono told The Hill last week.
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And outside firms can find themselves at a big disadvantage over incumbents, which have the connections to break rules with impunity whereas newcomers can be shaken down.
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What's the deal with the ransom, which Greenwood weirdly says was "reportedly" demanding $150,000, as if the band itself was unsure of what they were being shaken down for.
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Mr Macron is desperate to dispel suspicions in Germany that he wants a "transfer union" in which prudent northern European taxpayers are shaken down to subsidise the indolent elsewhere.
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If they make it through the days-long desert crossing to Libya, the migrants are sometimes beaten, detained for weeks by smugglers and shaken down for yet more cash.
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A cold laser stimulates the cells, needling them until they cannot take it and just collapse, giving up their contents like they've been shaken down for their lunch money.
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Scores of Central Americans have fallen to their deaths jumping on trains or been shaken down by Mexican police, murdered, kidnapped, robbed or raped on their way to the United States.
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Sure, you'll want to get shaken down by a Stormtrooper, build your own lightsaber, or pilot the Millennium Falcon — but you've also get to get a few perfect images for the 'gram.
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Korniyets, the chauffeur-turned-prosecutor, was implicated in the summer of 2015, when a Ukrainian businessman told the new inspector general that he was "being shaken down" by Shokin's cronies, Kent explained.
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"She apparently can't decide whether the president has shaken down the president of another country for his own political purposes," Hirono told The Hill as she walked to Senate votes on Thursday.
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" He had said that Ms. Ashworth had tried to get a settlement from Mr. Gooding after he was arrested on the first groping charge but that the actor would not be "shaken down.
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She cites the example of an Afghan who was shaken down nine times by police on a single journey, and vowed not to warn them if he saw the Taliban planting a bomb to kill them.
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Ronald Watts, and what I learned right away was that Ronald Watts had been convicted federally of exactly what Ben said had happened to him: being shaken down and framing someone for putting drugs on someone.
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For every minister forced from office, for every disenfranchised conservative cleric, for every rich royal hauled in for corruption and fleeced of allegedly ill-gotten billions, for every businessman shaken down, more potential enemies are created.
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It could establish a new blueprint for how multi-billionaires can demand that the public pay virtually all of their stadium construction costs, all the while insisting that they're providing a welcome "investment" in the locale being shaken down.
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For sure, the driver pulled over by a traffic cop, the contractor looking to speed up approval of building plans, or the store owner being shaken down by a fire inspector all have to pay cash on the nail.
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Those uprisings began in Tunisia in December 19833, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 21983-year-old high school dropout who worked as a fruit and vegetable vendor, set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid after being shaken down and humiliated by local officials.
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As Mr. Gras watches Mr. Kasongo making the arduous trek — taking breaks from exhaustion, or being engulfed in dust from passing traffic or shaken down for money — it is hard to ignore the presence of the camera (and the potentially helpful human being operating it).
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Not long after he was audited by the I.R.S., he created "Inside the IRS" (1974), a Bosch-like descent into a hellish government fortress where agents wear Cossack uniforms and a taxpayer is forced to hang by his heels while being shaken down for his last cents.
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When we last checked in with the always pugnacious leader of the car-hailing company, he was getting shaken down by the the mayor of Pittsburgh, seeing accidents and regulators plague his troubled self-driving car efforts and getting tsk-tsked for taking some Uber employees to an escort bar in South Korea.
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When we last checked in with the always pugnacious leader of the car-hailing company, he was getting shaken down by the mayor of Pittsburgh, seeing accidents and regulators plague his troubled self-driving car efforts and getting tsk-tsked for taking some Uber employees to an escort bar in South Korea.
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He had to leave a job as a harbor pilot, in Kismayu, Somalia, due to resentment from the local warlord's militiamen. In 2003 he was working as a driver for an employee of Mohammed Dheere, a Somali warlord. Dheere's men accused him of owing Dheere money, and when he refused to be shaken down, they handed him over the CIA.
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In India the trees flower in July to October and fruits are formed soon after. In February–March the fruits are mature and in some places a second crop is produced in the fall. Pickings are done by hand from ladders and about 110 lbs (50 kg)is harvested per day. The fruits remaining on the tree are shaken down.
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As the maiden voyage progressed, these would become loose, and in many cases fall to the deck (shaken down). For this reason, it was common for the shipyard to send a 'shake-down' team with the ship on her maiden voyage. These men would be specialists equipped with the proper tools and spares to relocate or replace any displaced fixtures or fittings.
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He hands her a large envelope containing cash. Although it makes her feel like a prostitute, she realizes quickly that this may be her calling in life because she loves sex and money. She starts meeting up with Yves' friends. Xaviera prospers as a prostitute until she is shaken down by a corrupt police officer who takes her money and tries to rape her.
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Stüssi- Lauterburg 2003, p. 45. Communications between the cities were interrupted, official envoys were shaken down and ships on the rivers were captured. The peasants even sent a letter to the French ambassador at Solothurn assuring the French king Louis XIV of their good intentions. The confessional conflicts that dominated the relations between the ruling city authorities were only secondary to the peasants of the Huttwil league.
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Another of his underbosses was Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo who was involved in the numbers racket in Boston, and was being shaken down by rival mobsters because he was not a "made" member. He solved this problem by paying Patriarca $50,000 and agreeing to pay him $100,000 a year to become a made member of the family. Angiulo was based in Boston and gained complete control of gambling in the city.
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At times, Rosenberg aided Cellini's case by testifying Cellini never asked him to make a political contribution nor asked for any money. “Never in 30 years,” Rosenberg said of his longtime business friend. Rosenberg also claimed Levine never wanted money from him.Korecki, Natasha, "Cellini’s alleged victim: ‘I told Bill I would not be shaken down’ ", The Chicago Sun- Times, October 20, 2011 Closing arguments were presented to the jury on October 25.
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Sections were normally furnished with six bunks. The construction work then went on rapidly, until the resources of concrete and bricks began to be depleted due to the excessive demand placed on them so suddenly. Also, the performance of the early street shelters was a serious blow to public confidence. Their walls were shaken down either by earth shock or blast, and the concrete roofs then fell onto the helpless occupants, and this was there for all to see.
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Sosa has Omar killed for being a police informant and makes Tony his business partner. At The Babylon nightclub, Tony is shaken down by corrupt narcotics detective Mel Bernstein, who informs him he has evidence linking Tony to the murders of Rebenga and the Colombian drug dealers. Bernstein proposes to "tax" Tony on his transactions in return for police protection and information. Tony is convinced Frank sent Bernstein because only Frank would know details about the murders.
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Skeeve is chosen as their next target; however, he doesn't get shaken down because Tananda and Aahz are old buddies. Aahz finds the solution to their Isstvan problem and the three of them, with the dragon Gleep, go back to Klah. Back on Klah, Quigley, the demon hunter, joins their troupe. The five would-be heroes and the dragon Gleep and Quigley's war unicorn Buttercup confront Isstvan and defeat him by tricking him into consuming wine that destroys his magical ability.
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In his 1927 election campaign George Spotton held the motto "We Will Win" and though he won, garnering 1,915 votes, it was hardly an endorsement of leadership of any level. He polled about 1,891 votes only half of the eligible voters in Horwick county. George Spotton was then accused of corrupt election practise when several voters said they were shaken down by police for money, this was later discovered to be an attempt to mudsling at George Spotton. He was not the only member facing trouble.
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One Israeli official likened Palestinian olive trees to Palestinian children. They look naïve but several years down the track they turn into ticking bombs. The centrality of such olive groves for Palestinians is, according to Michael Sfard, viewed in the Zionist narrative as emblematic of "Arab laziness", since it grows alone and can be shaken down once a year to yield its wealth. In one analysis in 2006 it emerged that only 4% of complaints against settler trespass and destruction of Palestinian olive trees ever led to prosecution.
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The second one features a genderless little person of unknown age in a hooded winter jacket spray-painting graffiti on public walls in or near the city of London. The band members of Starsailor are depicted as animated graffiti whilst playing the title song throughout. At the end of the video the faceless, anonymous elfin creature is caught while standing on a bridge and shaken down by the police. One of the scenes in the video can be seen as the art cover for the Hard-Fi single Hard to Beat.
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Whitley, 1988, p.27-28 After the formation and federal recognition of the squadron Kearns would become the squadrons chief test pilot and serve as a Master Sergeant within the unit. All new aircraft the unit received were tested and shaken-down by Kearns. On June 27, 1924 Kearns flew the first set of Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny' aircraft delivered to the fledgling squadron.Whitley, 1988, p.31 Kearns' early test flights from Lowry Field proved that such aircraft could operate at the high altitudes of Colorado. Kearns would later be commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant for his role within the squadron.
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At this point one murder followed another. Honest merchants were shaken down by dishonest lawmen. In 1864 the Esmeralda Star is quoted with saying "No sooner had the Marshal been sworn in than the worst villains that ever infested a civilized community were appointed policemen, and with but few exceptions they were composed of as hard a set if criminals ever went unhung." In April, 1863, Daly Gang member Jim Sears had seen a horse tied in front of Mayberry's, near Hoy's Station, on the banks of the West Walker; mounted the animal and rode away.
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Later that night, the guerrillas start a shootout and bomb threat at a mall where people are doing their Christmas shopping. During the attack, Hunter, having shaken down an informant, comes into the mall and takes down the guerrillas one by one. National Guard troops are called up, martial law is declared, and armed civilians organize to protect their communities from further guerrilla attacks. Hunter continues pursuing the terrorists, stopping their plans to bomb a church, killing Rostov's right-hand man Nikko (Alexander Zale) right before the latter can initiate a public massacre, and saving a school bus full of children from a bomb.
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Another group, consisting of the battleship Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser , and a screen of six destroyers, under the command of Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland in Hood, cruised to the south of Iceland to intercept the Germans once they were detected. Norfolk and Suffolk spotted Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on the evening of 23 May; Suffolk was fitted with radar that allowed them to shadow the Germans through the night whilst remaining outside of German gun range. Prince of Wales was a newly commissioned King George V-class battleship, similar to Bismarck in size and power. Prince of Wales had not yet been properly "shaken down", and her crew was inexperienced.
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The Williams FW33 was a Formula One racing car developed by Williams F1 for the 2011 Formula One season. It was driven by Brazilian veteran Rubens Barrichello and 2010 GP2 Series champion and rookie driver Pastor Maldonado. The car was shaken down at Silverstone on 28 January 2011, and made its full on-track debut at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain, on 1 February 2011 in an interim testing livery. The definitive livery was released on 24 February, adding white, silver and red to the existing dark blue in a design directly inspired by the Rothmans livery used from 1994 to 1997.
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With this lineup, The Statesmen began recording for RCA Victor and began starring in the Nabisco Hour national TV show as mentioned above. Popular songs of this period include "Get Away Jordan" and "Happy Rhythm". As early as 1950, The Statesmen used the phrase "Rockin' and rollin'" in a song, and Hovie Lister's frantic boogie-woogie piano, piano bench acrobatics, and hair shaken down in his eyes would have great influence on early rock and roll artists, particularly on Jerry Lee Lewis, who was a fan of gospel music and the Statesmen. On July 4, 1955, the Blackwood/Statesmen team traveled to Texas for an engagement that would feature several secular artists on the same program.
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According to Texian Noah Smithwick, "grapeshot and canister thrashed through the pecan trees overhead, raining a shower of ripe nuts down on us, and I saw men picking them up and eating them with as little concern as if they were being shaken down by a norther." In his official report to Austin, Bowie remarked that "The discharge from the enemy was one continued blaze of fire, whilst that from our lines, was more slowly delivered, but with good aim and deadly effect." The Mexican infantry were assigned Brown Bess muskets, which had a maximum range of only , compared to the effective range of the Texian long rifles. The Texians were short of ammunition, however, and although Mexican ammunition was plentiful, it was poor quality.
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The man was in the company of a 14-year-old runaway and had contacted the boy's father in Texas to wire plane fare so the son could fly home.The father had grown suspicious when the man had asked for $150—twice the needed amount." The man McDonnell met in that Western Union office appeared to be a NYPD member, but a quick conversation with him revealed that the man, John Aitken, had an arrest record and had been trying to use the boy in a robbery scheme. Aitken's subsequent interrogation revealed that "he had knowledge of an extortion ring that had shaken down dozens of prominent closeted homosexual men across the country—most of them married and with families.
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After the reformed division had shaken down, on 4 May, 167th Brigade took over part of the line facing the Gommecourt Salient, where it was due to attack in the forthcoming Battle of the Somme. On 5 May, the battalion received a large draft of veterans of Gallipoli and Egypt from the 2/3rd Bn which was being disbanded (see below). The Gommecourt sector was static – the division's first action was on 18 May when 1/3rd Bn beat off a German raid – but working parties of the battalion were required to dig new communication trenches in preparation for the offensive, and these parties suffered a trickle of casualties from German artillery. The working parties alternated with periods holding the frontline trenches and sending out night patrols. On the night of 25/26 May, 167th Bde dug a new jumping-off trench half-way across No man's land.
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