Sentences with phrase «extortion scheme»

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a GOP gubernatorial candidate, says Cuomo must explain to the public how Percoco was able to run a bribery and extortion scheme for years before he was convicted.

Yet another high - ranking police official in the Indian state of Gujurat has been taken into custody in connection with a $ 1 million bitcoin extortion scheme.

His former bestie Simon «Sick Boy» Williamson (Jonny Lee Miller) is working extortion schemes with the help of pretty Bulgarian Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova), while Daniel «Spud» Murphy (Ewen Bremner), having recently lost his job, is attempting suicide via overdose when Mark visits and subsequently saves him, much to Spud's chagrin.

The sinister extortion scheme — in which victims must pay to recover precious data — has already hit hundreds of thousands of computers at companies, schools, and hospitals.

In a swaggering press conference at his offices in Manhattan, Mr. Bharara detailed two alleged extortion schemes Mr. Silver undertook to enrich himself: one involving an unidentified doctor handling asbestos cases, who was not charged with a crime after cooperating with the U.S. attorney's office, and another with a small, politically - connected real estate law firm that also avoided charges in this complaint.

``... It is unremarkable that the arrest of the longtime Speaker of the Assembly on allegations that he committed a large - scale and long - running honest services fraud and extortion scheme generated substantial publicity, and it plainly would have done so regardless of any statements made by the U.S. Attorney.»

From 2014 to 2016, Zakharova allegedly targeted Spitzer in an elaborate extortion scheme that involved him making regular hush - money payments of $ 3,000 to $ 50,000 a pop, according to prosecutors.

Elected officials and political observers from across New York are focused on Gov. Andrew Cuomo today, waiting to see if he will explain how a former top aide pulled off a bribery and extortion scheme while working for the governor.

Zakharova was arrested in October 2016 and charged with forgery and grand larceny in what prosecutors called a «systematic and protracted extortion scheme» against Spitzer, a Democrat who was governor of New York from early 2007 to early 2008, when he was forced to resign over a prostitution scandal.

The judge also ruled on other issues, rejecting a whole series of requests from defense lawyers in both the mid-year Buffalo Billion trial and the one starting Jan. 8 that features a bribery and extortion scheme allegedly involving Joseph Percoco, a longtime advisor to Cuomo, as well as three business executives from two companies with business matters before the Cuomo administration.

I guess this is what they discuss on their forums for seekers of young hot bodies, salivating over pretty pics of cute girls happy to engage in communication with old foreign men (read: pay per letter money extortion schemes).

One of the most vicious and lucrative scams is a romance extortion scheme, according to Molly O'Hearn, Vice President of Operations for iovation, an Oregon - based fraud protection program.

Though over half - a-century and an ocean removed from Cruel Story of Youth, Max Winkler's Flower has more or less the same premise, casting Zoey Deutch as a 17 - year - old who offers fellatio to middle - aged men and enlists her friends on a petty extortion scheme.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco says Gov. Andrew Cuomo must explain to the public how a former top aide was able to run a bribery and extortion scheme for years before he was convicted Tuesday on three felony charges.

However, what to do when the perpetrators of a Bitcoin extortion scheme are the police?

In 1988, former US Attorney Rudy Giuliani indicted Congressman Robert Garcia, along with his wife, Jane Lee Garcia, and attorney Ralph Vallone, Jr. on the charges of corruption in a bribery - extortion scheme involving the WedTech Corporation.

Mark Walhbert, Dawyne «The Rock» Johnson, and Anthony Mackie play three buff bros who get caught up in an extortion scheme.

This extortion scheme, though not new, has become big business in recent years, according to the FBI.

Co-defendant Marshall Thompson, a co-founder of the Chi - Lites soul group, was sentenced last month to a year in prison for acting as a middleman in the extortion scheme.

The Skeloses were convicted last December of obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and carrying out extortion schemes.

Zakharova fled to Russia after the dispute and the investigation turned on her when she was charged with grand larceny for the extortion scheme.

Prosecutors» claims that Percoco engaged in an extortion scheme in 2014 was, however, «far before the government has alleged that Percoco performed any «official act» relating to the Syracuse developer,» Bohrer wrote last week.

The men were convicted last December of obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and carrying out extortion schemes.

Skelos, who is charged with using his political position to enrich himself and his son in a bribery and extortion scheme, did not speak to the media.

However, their budding relationship is threatened when Barry becomes the victim of an extortion scheme run by a phone sex operator and her sleazy boss (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Dwayne Johnson's character is an amalgamation of three other men involved in the crime, including Jorge Delgado, Schiller's former business partner who masterminded the kidnap and extortion scheme.

Apparently based on a true story, Pain & Gain tells the story of three moronic but ambitious body builders in Florida who jump head first into a kidnapping and extortion scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Rather than letting the lawsuits before the judge become more examples of what federal district court Judge Otis D. Wright has called «essentially an extortion scheme,» Judge Baylson has decided to move forward with a «bellwether trial» to determine the validity of Malibu's claims.

-LSB-...] exposing her so that she can't engage in her extortion scheme against anyone else.

First, President Obama spoke out about trolls and their extortion schemes, admitting that the AIA didn't fix the problem.