Sentences with phrase «by extorting money»

According to the criminal complaint, the charges stem from a scheme where Skelos, 67, abused his «official position by extorting money from others» by receiving payments to his son Adam Skelos, 32, from companies to whom he promised to use his elected office to benefit.

The complaint said Dean Skelos monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

Authorities say Skelos monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

Authorities say he monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

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It wasn't wireless, but rather cable provider Comcast trying to extort more money from Netflix by slowing the streaming service.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

After 6 weeks of studying the over one year court proceedings on the ongoing trial involving four suspects; Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, and Chris Handler, accused of allegedly conspiring to extort money from Asamoah Gyan, the new Attorney General headed by Madam Gloria Akuffo, is set to appear in court for trial to continue.

Even the World Bank pre-paid meters that were installed about 3 years ago have been deliberately damaged by AEDC personnel in order to continue to extort money from us.

Mr Kyeremanten, however, said the monies were not extorted from expatriate businesses during the event as has been claimed by the Minority.

The three soldiers arrested by some residents of Tarkwa in the Western Region for allegedly extorting monies from them, are not members of government's Operation Vanguard Task - force, according to the Ghana Armed Forces.

The regional security capo, on Sunday September 24, going by same modus operandi, allegedly tried to extort money from a businesswoman.

Such an attack can be used to extort money from online companies (such as casinos) by preventing customers from reaching them, to eliminate security firms or other enemies, and to attack civil and governmental Internet infrastructure: it's a transition from tool to weapon, with spam becoming a mere platform for further developments.

Then the scammer extorts money from the victim by threatening to release the photos and videos.

Their happiness is shattered by the arrival of the girl's lover Mario (Robert Dane), whose cousin Harry (John Close) extorts a tidy sum of money from David.

Instead of reporting him to the police, he attempts to extort money but does gain a measure of revenge by having sex with Wang Mei (Elaine Jin), Lin Dong's wife, who can not have children.

There's grimness to this clip where one of the father's «friends» (played by Stacy Keach) tries to extort some money, and the son ends up learning an ugly truth.

In «Experiment in Terror» from 1962, Ross Martin hatches a plot to anonymously extort money from Lee Remick; his efforts are thwarted by FBI agent Glenn Ford.

Then outside of the story missions you have a bunch of different side tasks that you can carry out, the most entertaining being having to basically extorting money from local businesses by interrogating them and «persuading» them to pay for your protection.

12 THE BIG STONE GRID by Craig Zahler A cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others.

I'd rather give my money to Chase than get extorted by UA.

While property scams — selling land that is later revealed to be owned by someone else — on expatriates and even native Belizeans are common throughout the country, scams tourists should be wary of include: unregistered taxis overcharging exorbitantly; tour companies that charge lavishly on undelivered promises; taxis driving travelers to places they have arranged with the proprietors to bring business to; «sob story» con artists who stage a reason to pity them and ask for money; and the infamous «exit tax» scam on travelers crossing from Mexico into Belize, where shuttle drivers and officials extort a fee from travelers to leave the country.

3rd parties should make their money the honest way by selling products to consumers, not by extorting Nintendo for bribe money.

On the one hand, we can think of cults which we know exist to extort money (and other things) from people by using illegitimate means of persuasion: brainwashing, bullying, false promises.

Essentially, solving the longer term energy problem — i.e. let's quit relying on buying fossil fuels from places that don't like us and extort money — also solves any CO2 emission problem (if it exists) by default, meaning that climate change is a secondary beneficiary and not a primary reason to do any of these things.

There were 457 camp complexes [iv] and even though these camps were conquered by Nazi Germany, we can not ignore that some would have helped or «handed over» Jews to their deaths; an estimated 200,000 Jews were killed by Poles, either by handing them over to the Nazis or being extorted for money and murdered for not complying [v].

There were 457 camp complexes iv and even though these camps were conquered by Nazi Germany, we can not ignore that some would have helped or «handed over» Jews to their deaths; an estimated 200,000 Jews were killed by Poles, either by handing them over to the Nazis or being extorted for money and murdered for not complying v.

Groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association, and the Application Developers Alliance say that patent trolls, such as Lodsys, harm innovation by litigating in order to extort money from developers and companies based on generic software patents that they don't even use for practical purposes.

So - called patent trolls stifle innovation and harm our economy by making dubious claims of patent infringement and using the threat of expensive litigation to extort money from small businesses and nonprofits.

Getting an order in place speeds up the process if the tenant refuses to move following the notice date and prevents the tenant from extorting the landlord by demanding more and more money in order to move out.