Sentences with phrase «of blackmail»

John Cyzgier, Surrogate Court Judge of Suffolk County Assemblymember Helene Weinstein also made the slur of blackmail in her debate speech at the assembly floor debate on June 18, 2015.

A Lexington man recently received a new kind of blackmail letter, one demanding that he pay thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

Section 87 (3) provides that a person guilty of blackmail is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).

That's a form of blackmail, Turley suggested.

Eugene Volokh had a nice piece on the complexities of blackmail on the Volokh Conspiracy this week.

But both of those meet the definition of blackmail (as gnasher pointed out above!).

It almost sounds like a form of blackmail: give us money or we'll burn down these trees!

It is a complicated matter, but since I work with people who have mental issues, I can see how it isn't outside of the realm of possibilities to use allegations as a means of blackmail for instances.

I can see how it isn't outside of the realm of possibilities to use allegations as a means of blackmail for instances.

I hate this kind of blackmail.

Tragically, a few Chinese students committed suicide because of the blackmail threats.

Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain - smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ranks of The Devil's Advocate, the Party's underground newspaper, and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors.

Q: Gemma is accepted into the most powerful and mean - spirited clique at Spence only because of blackmail — she keeps a secret that could destroy Felicity's future.

And Seth's past has made him a target of blackmail — as a secret he's kept hidden for years threatens to explode, destroying his new life and his new love....

Paranoid readers will especially enjoy Coben's latest thriller full of blackmail and unraveling secrets.

Cue the elaborate — but, it would appear, perfect — Hitchcockian murder plot, with a diabolical bit of blackmail throw in.

THE MAN WHO WAS N'T THERE (Grade: B): The new film from the Coen Brothers is a slow - paced, straight - faced, black - and - white film noir about a small - town barber of the»50s (Billy Bob Thornton) who becomes snared in a web of blackmail and murder.

Synopsis: When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.

But what used to be a narrative underpinning — the totalitarian corruption from which bread and circuses are meant to divert attention — has become superscript this time, with President Snow (Donald Sutherland) so deeply concerned about Katniss» capacity to incite an uprising amongst the wretched, increasingly angry masses that his usual handling tactic of blackmail swiftly escalates to murder plans.

Jamie Bell plays a fellow cop who's a real threat to Bruce's promotion, so he's got a ready supply of blackmail material on the lad.

Swirls of blackmail, murder, and sexual innuendo follow, and the ending murder mystery is actually very entertaining.

8:00 pm — IFC — The Player Robert Altman takes on Hollywood in this story of a script screener (Tim Robbins) who gets drawn further and further into a web of blackmail and double - crosses when he's threatened by a screenwriter whose script he rejected.

The plot thickens when the classified CIA documents she downloads onto a disc off her hubby's computer accidentally land in the hands of blackmail - minded Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Pitt), co-workers at Hardbodies Fitness Center.

This creates a chain of blackmail and murder involving love, lust and money.

A mother is drawn into a sinister web of blackmail while trying to protect her son in this drama.

Two men from the UK who posed as underage boys on Grindr have been found guilty of blackmail.

Stay inside your comfort zone by sticking to Unicorn's peachy nude, or step outside the Crayola box with a swipe of Blackmail's deep, berry wine.

He said an Ed Miliband government would be subjected to a «daily dose of blackmail» by the nationalists, and that would be a «recipe for mayhem».

She is also said to have granted sexual favours to some of the top officials, and continues to enjoy their support due to threats of blackmail if they attempt to expose her.

«No amount of blackmail will stop the government from strictly following due process and rule of law,» Ayorinde said.

Second, the Conservative Party and its supporters have claimed that including the SNP in any government will lead to chaos as Miliband's government would be liable to a «daily dose of blackmail» that will result in continuous instability.

No amount of blackmail, lies, intimidation and harassment will detract my attention from championing responsible and fiscal discipline.

He also accused Makarfi who was the chairman of the ousted Caretaker Committee of the party of blackmail.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Kaduna State chapter has affirmed that the labour movement will never be intimidated by tactics of blackmail being deployed by the...

«We need to stop this issue of blackmail.

On the other hand, there were all these mega-billionaires who (a) threatened to target him if he voted no; (b) promised him huge campaign contributions if he went along; and (c) would pay to call him a «hater» and a «homophobe» and even, perhaps, pay «witnesseses» to allege he was in the closet as part of a blackmail scheme.

Conservative party deputy chairman Robert Halfon has admitted having an affair with a Tory activist, as allegations of a blackmail plot emerge.

«There is no amount of blackmail or insult by these detractors, no matter how hard they try, that can erase the achievements of former President Goodluck Jonathan.»

We are an organization that is guided by international best practices in all our undertakings and no amount of blackmail will distract us from our resolve to achieve our mandate of defeating the menace of Boko Haram in the country.»

He said, «You would recall the series of blackmail he [Buhari] faced in the media and everywhere before the 2015 general elections, but in the end, we have him as the President.

The rights advocate however pledged to continue to advocate for the freedom of the girls in the face of blackmail, intimidation and threat to her group from the federal government.

He also admitted he had never heard of the fact that his senior reporter at the News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck, had been found by a judge to be guilty of blackmail.

A self - help organization in Albany called Nxivm has begun to unravel as members reveal disturbing practices like branding of women and fears of blackmail.

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

As another side note, you mix a (completely unfounded) 1 claim of blackmail with changing «sixteen Chechens» from the very news you link to «sixteen Russians», probably to suggest some intervention of the Russian government in the Belgium attacks.

More darkly, Sunstein warns there is a risk of blackmail.

And, recalling Sunstein's fear of blackmail, there is a risk that Scotland will use the threat of independence to exercise a disproportionate say over UK policy - making: agree with us, or we leave.

«Running through many of these games is a certain amount of blackmail and bribery,» Morgan says.

«This act of blackmail and deliberate tarnishing the image of perceived political enemies won't help the image of the EFCC and it won't get it result.

A former deputy governor of Osun state and a key chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Iyiola Omisore, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of blackmail over allegation of fraud being leveled against him.