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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.