Sentences with phrase «extort money from companies»

Park Geun - hye was accused of allowing a close friend to extort money from companies.

He hatched the idea of extorting money from the company and got contact numbers of the senior personnel of NDPR.

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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.

Nevertheless, innovators continue to face challenges from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), companies that, in the President's words «don't actually produce anything themselves,» and instead develop a business model «to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.»

better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.

Observers around New York state and beyond will be watching prosecutors try to convict a top state official of extorting money — or «ziti» as it was referred to in emails — from company executives with business before the state.

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.

Skelos is charged with extorting money from a real estate company and environmental firm to aid his son, Adam, who also is a defendant in the case.

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.

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.

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.

The complaint doesn't specify exactly how Keil was demanding money from Magic Leap, but it says the claims were «an effort to extort millions of dollars» from the company.