Sentences with phrase «extort some money out»

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.»

It's hard to respect a model of giving that is routinely used to guilt trip and extort money out of the flock.

Not all of the mostly - white NFL owners are callous racists, but they are all successful business people, and you can bet they would rather cut off their own finger than hire someone who is actively trying to harm their business / extort money out of them.

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.

Recently, the cyber security researchers have encountered a strain of scam emails that attempts to extort money out of users from Australia and We tested the biggest dating sites in this space and report back about which are legit and which are scams.

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.

Very few make it, but self - publishing companies do their best to try and woe them with untold riches and fortunes to extort money out of them (lulu, authorssolutions, Kirkus reviews)

They're just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.

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Or we might do a Carlos Vela and use the clause to extort more money out of the club we are selling too.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

When people use this line — the district isn't paying, the money comes from the state / the federal gov» t. — do they truly not realize that ALL of the money is being extorted out of US in the first place?

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.

Publishers are finding more and more «creative» ways of extorting you out of your money and if you peel -LSB-...]

No doubt, there have been cases of fraudulent players who set out to simply extort money from unsuspecting victims, these players pretend to create genuine products, only to vanish with people's funds, leaving them with tokens of almost no value.

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.