Sentences with phrase «blackmail attempts»

Grindr and Hornet began providing safety info & tips in Arabic to inform users about risks but without implementing changes to protect them too - say, eliminating watermarked app logos on photos, which have been used as evidence in court and blackmail attempts.

The Mail on Sunday fingers former Tory parliamentary candidate Mark Clarke as the man behind the blackmail attempts, but Clarke has strongly denied the claim.

The true number of blackmail attempts, divorces, job losses, broken families, ruined lives, witch hunts, violent retributions, and suicides will not be known for years to come.

A married Premier League defender is caught up in a # 100k blackmail attempt following a night of extremely passionate sex with a one - night stand, according to The Sun.

I'm sure that you have seen the recent scandal involving him and some friends, his team mate Mathieu Valbuena and an alleged blackmail attempt over a sex tape.

An example is when Brazilian criminals kidnapped a woman and demanded for a bitcoin payment; or when, back in 2016, a chemist threatened to kill supermarket shoppers with cyanide he bought on the dark web with bitcoins in a # 2 million blackmail attempt.

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Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, called the lawsuit an Israeli attempt to blackmail Facebook and accused Israel of trying to turn the social network into a spy tool against Palestinians.

Mr. Trump has put this all at risk with his bullying tactics and attempts at blackmailing President Enrique Peña Nieto and Mexico into paying for a border wall that we neither believe in nor are willing to help build.

Amaal left home and found a job in a resort hotel, only to have her boss attempt to blackmail her in exchange for sexual favors, prompting her to flee again.

He'll start off by insulting new arrivals and then he'll come out with the same old comment he's been using for years,» I was wanted by the biggest clubs in Europe but chose to honour my contract» in an attempt of emotional blackmail to get the board to at least let him see out his contract until 2019.

Police are trying to find out if Benzema played any role in the extortion attempt targeting France midfielder Valbuena, and if there was any attempt to blackmail the Lyon player.

«It is quite simply disgusting that Nestlé and its colleagues are using economic blackmail against the Philippines in an attempt to force members of congress to accept a bill that the Department of Health, WHO and UNICEF have clearly stated will be damaging to Filipino society.

Laws maintained a secret, one that could have exposed him, the administration and thus this country to attempts at blackmail.

But his recorded notes end up in the hands of naive gym employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and her cretinous sidekick Chad Feldheimer (played for laughs by Brad Pitt) and the film details the pair's increasingly incompetent attempts to blackmail Cox.

Benzema was charged with conspiracy to blackmail last month for an alleged role in an attempt to extort funds from Valbuena, his France international teammate, using a sex tape.

However, she claims someone later attempted to blackmail her.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

The deal includes the Spitzer case, but she does not have to admit to attempting to blackmail Spitzer by threatening to make their affair public.

I thought it was a bit early in the election to start slinging mud, but apparently Gibson and his supporters don't have a whole lot to say about their positions nows that the government shutdown and the attempt to hold the payment of the government's debts for blackmail has come to such a pitiful end.

He decried how the TETFund probe linked to INEC was being used to discredit the recall process, saying, «This is a failed blackmail and we reject it completely and will resist any attempt to derail INEC in the legitimate discharge of its constitutional rights.»

According to Namdas, there was an obvious attempt to blackmail the National Assembly, paint it as an irresponsible institution, one not concerned with the welfare of the people.

Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, said that «if President Buhari retains these ministers in the face of the serious allegations against them, he will show that the entire judicial corruption saga is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to blackmail the judiciary in order to subjugate it and make it a rubber stamp institution of the administration.»

«They have resorted to cheap blackmail as it is becoming obvious that the efforts of Ali Modu Sheriff at frustrating every attempt to impose a non party member as our presidential nominee is beginning to gain the attention of well - meaning members.

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday decried the attempt by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to blackmail it into paying a questionable N224 million debt, saying it will not succumb to such move.

So, saying that I refused to accept the SUV from Wike is an attempt to blackmail me.

Attempts by one Martins Ugwu Okpe, who has been impersonating as a medical doctor to blackmail the country coordinator of the National Centre for...

The statement said: «These are people who have spent months and days in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State and the dungeon of the Department of State Services for attempt to blackmail and extort money from eminent Nigerians, including prominent businessman, Femi Otedola; and a former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu.

She is also said to have granted sexual favours to some of the top officials, and continues to enjoy their support due to threats of blackmail if they attempt to expose her.

Party facing questions over its investigation of former aide at centre of allegations of attempted blackmail, bullying and sexual harassment

The Conservatives are under scrutiny about whether they properly investigated verbal complaints about the Conservative election aide Mark Clarke, who is at the centre of allegations of attempted blackmail, bullying and sexual harassment.

Senator Ibrahim said, «We have since discovered that the trial of the senate president is a mere attempt to blackmail him and make him look bad in the court of public opinion.

«That seems to be the attempt, to blackmail us financially.»

When a lucrative government contract is set to be awarded by honest government worker Jim Hawley (Tom Selleck), a low - life businessman (Barry Sullivan) attempts to get his hands on the contract by setting Hawley up for an elaborate blackmail scheme.

When Elliot fakes his own death, he manages to involve Jonathan and Jennifer in his «murder» and attempts to blackmail them for five million dollars cash.

Dexter dodges bullets both figurative and real as he is forced to decide the fates of those he cares about most; Lila attempts to blackmail Dexter and makes a startling discovery that changes the nature of their relationship.

In defiance of her arranged marriage to Loras Tyrell, Cersei (Lena Headey) is attempting to blackmail Tywin (Charles Dance), by revealing that Tommen has no right to the Iron Throne because he's the product of incest between her and Jaime (Nikowrlaj Coster - Waldau).

Synopsis: «When a break - in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle - maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One - Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case.

Then rape, attempted suicide, blackmail, a rigged car accident, and a one - sided love affair crash to a startling conclusion.

When a break - in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle - maker Franco Arno (Karl Malden), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute's scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus) to crack the case.

The disk is found and mistaken for classified material by spunky Chad (Pitt) and lovelorn Linda (McDormand), and their awkward attempt to solicit a reward for it quickly tumbles into blackmail, with escalating consequences.

When the notes on his memoir are accidentally left behind in a gym, they fall into the hands of gym employees Chad [Brad Pitt] and Linda [Frances McDormand] whose attempt to return them is mistaken for an attempted at blackmail.

The trio are a pretty amoral group in the face of the harsher realities of New Delhi life, but a subplot involving Nitin's attempt at blackmailing a hapless neighbor has a happy ending.

Once in the U.S., they discover an alive Harry Hart (Colin Firth), but also that Poppy is poisoning her drug supply in an attempt to blackmail the government into legalizing all drugs, which would make Poppy both rich and able to come out of hiding from her South American lair.

The inciting incident of the story has him storming into the woman's workplace, trying to convince her to take him back, and, that approach having failed, attempting to blackmail her.

He has a student attempting to blackmail him when he doesn't accept a bribe.

In the normal course of events, it is highly unlikely that a talented seamstress such as Anabelle Honeycote would cross paths with a duke in London of 1815 — unless, of course, she were so unwise as to attempt to blackmail him.

But I recognize the attempt to blackmail a company via the media when I see it.

A great example of this is from early on in the game in which you have to blackmail a code to a safe out an art critic by proving that he was lying about his whereabouts, while having Nico distract the investigator who had just entered as you attempted to open the safe.

Blackmailed by the authorities, Klára attempts to uncover the fate of a missing nobleman's daughter within Csejthe Castle, and offer up the Countess» secrets in order to end her nightmarish reign.

Successfully protecting the privacy of a high - net worth individual whose autobiography writer attempted to blackmail the client by threatening to publish unapproved materials.