Sentences with phrase «of extorting money from»

As international criminal gangs increasingly target online dating and social networking sites, as a means of extorting money from unwary victims, research suggests.

BENTONVILLE — An Indiana man is accused of extorting money from a woman he knew and setting up profiles of her on online dating sites that led men to her home.

But the team decided to change the terminology because, «if you have a Sicilian mafia background, [«shakedown»] has a different connotation,» he said, referring to the illegal practice of extorting money from small businesses, generating laughter from the audience.

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

«One Senator Isa Misau, a member of the 2 nd respondent (Senate), while raising a matter of urgent national importance, had sometime between September and October 2017, alleged that the applicant instituted roadblocks across Nigeria with the purpose of extorting money from unsuspecting motorists.

Three persons who have been accused of extorting money from Black Star Skipper, Asamoah Gyan over an alleged sex tape have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court.

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There is a significant increase in the amount of malware designed to extort money from unsuspecting PC as well as mobile phone users.

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.

We were told that they murder without fear of retribution, extort money, cattle and land from the poor and have so filled the land with spies that everyone fears his or her neighbor; even the canecutters in the Dominican Republic expect their words and deeds to be recorded.

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.

Take as much money as we can extort from Chelsea or Liverpool and give a chance to some of our young stars who actually love the club.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba has accused Daniel Bugri Naabu of extorting money, cows and goats from people with the promise of securing them contracts under the School Feeding Programme.

Kennedy Agyepong said though the president is unaware of such happenings in his office, some of his staff are busy using their presence to extort monies from people who want to invest in the economy.

The walk is expected to see huge crowds of NDC faithful, and repented supporters of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), which has made a total mess of this year's Hajj, extorting money from, and physically beating victimized Muslims, drawn to the charismatic John Mahama.

«Extortion» in this case is political hyperbole and not necessarily meant as a statement of fact - ie North Korea was literally extorting money from the US.

In the past, North Korea has used the threat of attack to extort money from other countries.

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

Importers of have constantly complained about the inefficiencies at the port and about officials of these agencies who claim extort monies from them thus raising their cost of doing business.

leadership of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has registered its discontent with regards to principals who consistently extorted monies from teacher trainees in the name of utility bills.

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.

Authorities say he monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

Authorities say Skelos monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

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.

The complaint said Dean Skelos monetized his position by extorting money from others, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from a senior executive of a major real estate development firm who was cooperating with the government.

Again, Asamoah Gyan's manager tendered in chief, evidence of some phone conversations he claim are the supposed conspiracy conversations amongst the suspects to extort money from Asamoah Gyan.

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.

Ms Djaba accused Mr Naabu of extorting money, cows, and goats from people with the promise to secure them appointments in the Akufo - Addo government in a radio interview after Mr Naabu had interrupted her meeting with the women on Friday, 5 May.

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

The leader and founder of Glorious Waves Church International, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi has sent a strong warning to persons using his name in extorting monies from people on social media.

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 former $ 5,000 - a-night hooker who accused Eliot Spitzer of choking her in a Plaza hotel suite tried to extort money from him before she jetted back to her native Russia, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The Nigerian Air Force has alerted the public to be wary of the activities of fraudsters masquerading as the organization's recruitment agents, with a view to extort money from unsuspecting Nigerians.

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.

According to him, any electoral officer extorting money from people in the name of registration will be made to face the wrath of law because they are acting outside the law.

The new Commissioner of Police in Bauchi State, Haliru Gwandu, has warned officers in the state to avoid extorting money from citizens.

DSS Arrest, Parades Suspected Blackmailers (Statement) The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to draw the attention of the public to the infamous activities of some unscrupulous elements who have resorted to condemnable tactics aimed at blackmailing and extorting money from unsuspecting and innocent people.

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.

In an interview with some businessmen and women who purchase their wares from Togo to sell at the regional capital, Ho, they alleged that Appiah Fenteng asked them to notify him anytime they wanted to purchase goods; and has since been extorting various sums of money (of not less than 500 Ghana Cedis) from them any time they brought in goods from Togo.

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....

The book shows how the «debt boomerang» on its return trip contributes to disturbing global climate and reducing biodiversity, flooding Northern markets with cocaine, extorting money from you and me to subsidise commercial banks, robbing Northern industry and agriculture of hundreds of thousands of jobs, encouraging immigration to the North and contributing to global instability.

SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY - Feb 13 - According to Experian Hitwise, the UK's most popular dating site is PlentyofFish, whose founder last week accused an alleged hacker of trying to extort money from PlentyofFish.

AmateurMatch.com is just full of amateur girls who think they can fool and extort money from men.

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.

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.

Their happiness is shattered by the arrival of the girl's lover Mario (Robert Dane), whose cousin Harry (John Close) extorts a tidy sum of money from David.

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.