Sentences with phrase «extort money for»

How else to explain why Skelos would allegedly try to extort money for his son at a time when Preet Bharara and fellow prosecutors are picking off state lawmakers like so many sitting ducks?

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

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Some companies have alleged that reviewers attempt to «extort» money or other services from them in exchange for not posting negative reviews.

«It's using my picture, but extorting people for money,» he added.

Do nt blame wenger and asenal for that, its the FA and its stupid quota system which is holding the clubs at ranson and allowing average English players like Walcott, sterling, wilshere etc and their agents to extort money frm the clubs for services they are not capable of providing.

It's now a club that extorts money from the fans wherever it can, for example # 2000 appro, a season ticket (most expensive in the world) # 2 - 50 a bottle of water or cup of tea lies to fans about it's ambition and demonstrates it's thirst for money whatever it takes and is now a club I hardly recognise.

Next, we should sell Ox for as much as we can extort from Chelsea or Liverpool, then take all that money, add another ten million plus Chambers, and do a deal with Southampton to get Van Dijk.

If he turns out to be extorting the club for money and signs for $ 125K a week than he's played Wenger and the club and they deserve each other in futboling purgatory.

The 4 accused are facing trial for conspiring to extort money from the black stars captain, Asamoah Gyan but pleaded not guilty to the offence; waiting patiently to open their defence.

On the day Asamoah Gyan's manager met Osarfo and gave part of the agreed amount, the police arrested Osarfo and later charged him and the 3 others, for extorting money from Gyan.

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.

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.

Why he should be entrusted with the people of New Hampshire and the rest of the country when he is willing to mock his own constituents» struggles and threaten to extort his own state's businesses for more money.

Misau who is currently the Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy also accused Idris of extorting money, ranging from N10m to N15 m, from Commissioners of Police, State Mobile Commanders and Special Protection Units Commanders, for favourable posting.

He also argued that the EC has been given huge sums of money from both government and donor partners to conduct the elections hence extorting money from journalists for accreditation is not necessary.

The reputed Russian hooker who was arrested for extorting Eliot Spitzer squeezed nearly $ 400,000 in hush money out of him over two years, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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.

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.

A special unit of the National Security at the Flagstaff House, has picked up the Volta Regional Coordinator of National Security, Appiah Fenteng, for allegedly extorting monies from traders and aiding them to smuggle goods from Togo into the country.

Road safety men take delight in staying in damaged parts of the road and start extorting money from motorist instead of notifying ministry of works to repair the damaged road which damaged tyres that leads to accidents, that for mean should be part of their work after all they are called ROAD SAFETY....

Goshima said he himself had been working for the local chapter of Yamaguchi - gumi since the age of 14, extorting money and collecting debts.

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.

We received too many contacts from people who were on the site for the wrong reason — mostly to extort money from us.

I myself am an ugly man in my late fourties I have never had a girlfriend and am a virgin.I have been using dating sites for 19 years and despite sending thousands of messages to women all I have had back are emails from Admin or women in foreign countries who are attempting to extort money from me.

It's a tale that only gets bleaker; even Abdi's loved ones seem to be in danger, since when he sneaks a call to them on a stolen satellite phone, he's instead extorted for more money via vague threats to their welfare.

He's got seven sisters who hate and mock him, and he's got four goons after him looking for money after he gets extorted following a phone call he made to a phone sex line.

Mistaking him for millionaire Jeff Lebowski two thugs break into the apartment of the chilled out and unemployed Jeff (The Dude) Lebowski, believing that they can extort him for money, and soiling his living room rug in the process.

No matter how tempted you might be, do not fall for these phishing scams, as the only point is to extort personal information or money.

He extorts money and valuables for his services, and is often on the verge of revealing the Jews» location.

The primary plot involves a man extorting the police department for money or key public officials will be assassinated.

Not only did he and his crew get malaria, but his camera operator pulled a hamstring forcing Fukunaga to do double duty as director and camera op; local actors and drivers extorted him for more money; and Idris Elba almost fell off a cliff.

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.

The film starts off with William H. Macy (Down Periscope, Benny & Joon), desperate for funds now that he has run into financial difficulty, hiring a couple of goons to kidnap his wife and offer for ransom, because he wants to extort money from her rich father to the tune of a million dollars.

Her modus operandi is to offer blow jobs to men she can extort for money, saving up so that she can bail her father out of jail.

Fitzgerald didn't mention another scenario: A disreputable «legal representative» claims that someone in another country is registering avriloreilly.cn, for example, and tries to extort money from you to block the registration.

If you don't pay attention to what's selling, you can fall for the scammy vanity press that will extort more and more money from you to endlessly market a book nobody wants.

I have an idea for a movie about a bogus agent who extorts money from desperate wan na be authors and self publishing «writers».

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.

hit store shelves, plenty of time for the internet to be flooded with reviews, desperate forum posts, and countless guides on how to max out your social links and extort your enemies for money and items.

Capcom for Marvel vs Capcom series for put all this DLC on the disk and extorting us money to use what is already available.

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

When are we going to tell the insane inmates to shut up and stop allowing their insanity to control the narrative and extort us for money and power.

Judge recommends jail time for man who used the Americans With Disabilities Act to extort money from businesses

This is a controversial subject that TreeHugger has been covering for a couple of years; many have suggested that it is akin to blackmail, with Ecuador extorting money to leave the oil under what is supposed to be a national park.

(Legal Profession Blog: New Trial For Failure To Hearken) 3) Question: I have a plan to extort money from my wife's four lovers.

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.

People or organizations with unfathomable amounts of money can use forks as an opportunity to extort both the Bitcoin network and the forked network for enticing capital gains when a fork occurs.

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.

No matter how tempted you might be, do not fall for these phishing scams, as the only point is to extort personal information or money.