Sentences with phrase «to extort money»

Kagame's government in turn has accused Rusesabagina of extorting money from people who took refuge in his hotel.

«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.

In June 2013, then President Obama said of patent trolls while directing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to address the abusive practice: «They don't actually produce anything themselves, they're just trying to essentially leverage and hijack somebody else's idea and see if they can extort some money out of them.»

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.

In the company blog, Telsa referred to Organ as having «a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims» and said that the company «would rather spend more on a trial and clear its name than settle with the plaintiff.»

The Volta Regional Coordinator of the National Security, who was apprehended by the Police for allegedly extorting monies from traders and aiding smuggling, has denied the claims, describing them as fabricated stories seeking to tarnish his image, and to frustrate his efforts to save the state the needed revenue.

I have an idea for a movie about a bogus agent who extorts money from desperate wan na be authors and self publishing «writers».

In his closing comments, lawyer Ampaw told the Investigator to the face: «I put it to you that Osarfo Anthony, Sarah Kwablah, and Ekow Micah did not extort any money from Asamoah Gyan!

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.

In a further development, on 17 April 2018, troops of 35 Artillery Brigade Alamala Barracks, Ogun state while on Operation CHECKMATE, arrested an impostor, Mr. Taiwo Ayomide at Ademola Hotel beside Yasmin Mosque Sagamu, dressed in Military camouflage while extorting money from unsuspecting citizens.

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.

The debate also featured Olu Agunloye of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, who stated that the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, being collected means extorting money from citizens in form of taxes without providing services.

I think that fear and threatening can be used to extort money which is plain wrong and illegal.

So the tax collectors became greedy, and often extorted money from their own Jewish people.

«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.

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.

President Nana Akufo - Addo has found the allegations that the Trade and Industry Ministry extorted money from expatriates, as part of the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards ceremony, baseless.

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.

He believes the move is aimed at unlawfully extorting monies from drivers.

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.

Because Silver knew better than to directly extort money, he separated his actions and his payoffs and then offered the wildly unsuccessful defense that he had simply engaged in politics the New York way and so had committed no crimes.

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

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....

Then the scammer extorts money from the victim by threatening to release the photos and videos.

In «Experiment in Terror» from 1962, Ross Martin hatches a plot to anonymously extort money from Lee Remick; his efforts are thwarted by FBI agent Glenn Ford.

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.

daily a. Rescues extort money from you if they take a cat.

We made a call early on that, in a list celebrating the best that gaming has to offer, we should exclude games that ruin their design to shamelessly extort money from their players.

This is a controversial subject that TreeHugger has been covering for a couple of years; many have suggested that it is akin to blackmail, with Ecuador extorting money to leave the oil under what is supposed to be a national park.

The Maryland Judiciary is warning the public about a new telephone scam that uses the threat of wage garnishment in order extort money from potential victims.

Patent trolls extort money from legitimate small businesses and innovators, hurting our economy and society - at - large.

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.

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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.»

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.

State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam are also currently on trial for allegedly extorting money from companies by promising to push favorable legislation.

Through this lawsuit, we hope to make sure Shipping & Transit can not extort money from small businesses again.

How else to explain why Skelos would allegedly try to extort money for his son at a time when Preet Bharara and fellow prosecutors are picking off state lawmakers like so many sitting ducks?

Police operatives attached to the Central Police Station, Aba in Abia State, have arrested a suspected armed robber identified as Obasi Chibuike, who allegedly wore a police bulletproof jacket while extorting money from motorists on the highway.

A spiritualist who extorted money to the tune of GHȼ33, 000.00 from a man under the pretext of securing him an ancient schnapps bottle has been remanded into prison custody.

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.

Scopo was a powerful labor racketeer, and he used his position to extort money from cement contractors, which would then be divvied up between four mob families.

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

Among other things, a grand jury alleges the suspects, along with another Illinois man, put a bomb on railroad tracks near Effingham, Ill. in an attempt to extort money from the Canadian National Railway.

While more of a socially engineered scheme, BEC attacks, like ransomware attacks and DDoS attacks, are waged to extort money.