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 EXTORTION
This is the most serious form of extortion in our modern law system and it is punishable by imprisonment for five to forty years and a large fine.
Both bribery and blackmail are considered types of extortion in modern day law and are both punishable by a fine and time in jail.
The legal requirements for extortion are very similar to those of robbery.
http://www.iejs.com/Law/Criminal_Law/extortion.htm   (1567 words)

  
 Criminal Resource Manual 2403 Hobbs Act -- Extortion By Force, Violence, or Fear
Several courts of appeals have limited the claim-of-right defense to the context of labor-management disputes by refusing to extend the defense to extortionate violence and economic fear in commercial disputes and public corruption cases.
However, other courts have held that the extortionate use of fear of economic harm in commercial disputes is subject to a claim-of-right defense on the grounds that, unlike violence, the use of economic fear is not inherently "wrongful." See United States v.
Where the claim-of-right defense applies, courts have generally held that the Government must prove that the defendant knew that he was not entitled to receive the property which he sought to obtain.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm02403.htm   (1984 words)

  
 Extortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term extortion is often used metaphorically to refer to usury or to price-gouging, though neither is legally considered extortion.
Even if it is not criminal to disclose the information, it constitutes extortion to demand money or other consideration not to disclose it.
Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, or other goods and/or services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to this person, reputation, or property.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion   (277 words)

  
 extortion on Encyclopedia.com
EXTORTION [extortion] in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him.
In most states of the United States, extortion is more widely defined to include the obtaining of money or property of another by inducing his consent through wrongful use of fear, force, or authority of office; blackmail, ransom, and threat of force are included under this definition.
Shcherban was arrested in the United States on suspicion of extortion and abuse of power at the demand of Ukrainian authorities, the Ukrainian state prosecutor said 13 October 2005.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/e1/extortio.asp   (850 words)

  
 RICO ACT, Jeff Grell, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, RICO, Attorney at Law - Civil RICO in a Nutshell
Governmental power, by its nature, is legalized extortion, e.g.,: unless you abide by the law, you'll go to jail; unless you buy car insurance, your license will be revoked; unless you pay taxes, you'll go to jail and be fined; unless you register your gun, your gun will be confiscated.
The "racketeering activity" is the criminal activities in which the Mafia engages, e.g., extortion, bribery, loan sharking, murder, illegal drug sales, prostitution, etc. Because the Mafia family has engaged in these criminal actions for generations, the criminal actions constitute a pattern of racketeering activity.
Thus, if acts of extortion do not allegedly cause any plaintiff to depart with their money or property, the acts of extortion do not afford a civil plaintiff any standing under RICO.
http://www.ricoact.com/ricoact/nutshell.asp   (13524 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Upon conviction of a felony violation under this chapter, the fact that the victim was an elder or dependent person, as defined in Section 288, shall be considered a circumstance in aggravation when imposing a term under subdivision (b) of Section 1170.
Every person who extorts any money or other property from another, under circumstances not amounting to robbery or carjacking, by means of force, or any threat, such as is mentioned in Section 519, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.
Every person who commits any extortion under color of official right, in cases for which a different punishment is not prescribed in this Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/pen/518-527.html   (437 words)

  
 The contagiousness of aircraft hijacking
However, it was not until the end of May 1971 that another extortion hijacking occurred in the United States.
In the United States, the majority of extortion attempts have been in pursuit of money for personal gain, although several have involved attempts to free prisoners.
Thus, the hypothesis was supported, provided it is interpreted to refer only to hijackings of the same type and those from the United States.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/hijacking.html   (7649 words)

  
 EXTORTION BY INSURANCE COMPANIES
The way it is operating today, most of the insurance industry is engaged in racketeering, fraud, extortion and incompetent practice of medicine without licenses by diagnosing across state lines and in some cases with no medical licenses at all.
And you can try to say it's not "quite extortion" or it's "legal extortion" but I'm telling you it's NOT LEGAL and it's not only extortion, but people have been convicted of extortion for far less egregious behavior than what insurance companies are doing DAILY.
Every time a confidentiality agreement or gag clause is signed under these circumstances, there is obstruction of justice and threatened retaliation against witnesses to the crime.
http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/INS/jm22.html   (1032 words)

  
 Big Labor's Immunity Against Anti-Extortion Law
Indeed, the ineffectiveness of state extortion laws as applied in cases of union violence provides yet another basis upon which to argue that FUVA is both constitutional and necessary.
By the time the case concluded at the U.S. Supreme Court, a clear-cut case of union extortion would be twisted beyond common sense, and not for the last time.
Since extortion is defined as the "obtaining of property…" only union officials can be charged under the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA) because an employer would not be trying to obtain property.
http://www.nilrr.org/unviol2000.htm   (5697 words)

  
 DRUDGE REPORT 2004®
By reason of Defendants’ attempted extortion, Plaintiffs are entitled to declaratory and injunctive relief as well as compensatory and punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial.
Accordingly, Morelli and presumably Mackris know that their demand that Fox pay $60 million to keep this matter out of the court and out of the media is nothing short of attempted extortion.
In sum, Defendants’ outrageous demand leaves Plaintiffs with a Hobson’s choice due to Defendants’ perversion, exploitation and abuse of the legal system.
http://www.drudgereport.com/fox.htm   (3485 words)

  
 JS Online: Chvala charged with extortion
Three extortion charges against Chvala involved payments he is accused of demanding for favorable consideration on legislation from the Wisconsin Realtors Association, the Wisconsin Wholesale Beer Distributors Association and William Petersen, the owner of a Lake Geneva mansion who wanted to obtain tax benefits in exchange for donating the property to the state.
A sweeping 67-page criminal complaint lays out in lurid detail repeated instances in which the Madison Democrat is alleged to have demanded cash for favors, punished or rewarded special interests based on payments and created elaborate means to hide money trails.
Madison - In the most damning public corruption case in modern Wisconsin history, state Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala was charged Thursday with 20 felonies alleging extortion, money laundering and illegal schemes to exceed donation limits to candidates.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/oct02/88618.asp   (2216 words)

  
 Union Corruption: Why It Happens, How to Combat It
The court ruled a union could be exempt from federal extortion statutes if seemingly illegal acts were related to "legitimate" union objectives like wage and benefit increases.
The civil action filed in October 1987, Judge Griesa admitted then, "gave promise of a full-fledged case against the union defendants, including evidence of threatened labor disturbances.
He was acquitted on four of the charges when the chief witness against him became unable to testify due to "extensive medical treatment."
http://www.nilrr.org/corruption.htm   (20610 words)

  
 Forgery Lawyers - Extortion Attorneys
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Extortion (or blackmail) differs from robbery in that the threats, stated or implied, that cause the victim to give money or property to the offender are not threats of immediate violence but rather threats of future harm.
http://www.law4usa.org/forgery_lawyers.htm   (1939 words)

  
 Extortion via DDoS on the rise
Extortion is "becoming more commonplace," says Ed Amoroso, chief information security officer at ATandT.
While MCI has been asked to help with prosecutions in other cybercrime cases, Rigby says he does not recall a service provider being subpoenaed in a distributed DoS extortion case.
Companies are not required by law to report these crimes, Porter says, and she suspects a fear of being sued over the consequences an attack might pose to one's customers contributes to the reticence of many to do so.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/051605-ddos-extortion.html   (1196 words)

  
 Wi-fi hopper guilty of cyber-extortion
Myron Tereshchuk, 42, pleaded guilty this month to a single charge of "attempted extortion affecting commerce" for demanding a seventeen million dollar ransom in exchange for not broadcasting proprietary information he obtained from MicroPatent, LLC, an intellectual property firm that packages patent and trademark information for law firms.
Tereshchuk ran a small, competing patent document service that ran into trouble when he was allegedly caught removing files from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and was temporarily banned from the facility.
The clearest sign came when he issued the seventeen million dollar extortion demand, and instructed the company to "make the check payable to Myron Tereshchuk."
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8991   (411 words)

  
 How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist — and Won - CSO Magazine - May 2005
Online crime laws are weaker in Eastern Europe than in the United States and the desire to enforce them weaker still (and the FBI wouldn't get involved with offshore gaming sites being extorted from overseas).
Maybe a third or more of targeted companies pay extortion fees, drawing the money from disaster funds, acceptable loss budgets or insurance.
As with fraud, a certain shame attaches itself to victims, especially those who choose to pay protection fees.
http://www.csoonline.com/read/050105/extortion.html   (8019 words)

  
 Bali Police Extortion - Indonesian Mafia
If you do not pay it, you will go to court and likely pay more.
But amazingly, they each pay at least 20 million rupiah to be able to join the "service" in the first place.
Historically, the only reason someone becomes a police officer in Indonesia, is to make extortion money.
http://www.fugly-bali.org/police.html   (1885 words)

  
 Super Bowl fuels gambling sites' extortion fears InfoWorld News 2004-01-29 By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
Because they are located outside U.S. jurisdiction, the companies have little legal recourse against the extortion attempts, Matthews claimed.
Typically, those behind the attacks offer "insurance" for a set period of time to companies that pay the extortion, he said.
The problem was unheard of a year ago, said Felicity Bull, a spokeswoman for the U.K.'s National High Tech Crime Unit.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/29/HNsuperbowl_1.html   (2146 words)

  
 Threats / Intimidation / Extortion / Deterrence
QUOTE: The Supreme Court ruled today that states may make it a crime to burn a cross with a purpose to intimidate...
Fairness.com is a service mark of Fairness.com LLC.
QUOTE:...the BSA's [Business Software Alliance] campaign is primarily a marketing effort essentially designed to scare people into buying more software.
http://www.fairness.com/resources/by-metacat?metacat_id=483   (5035 words)

  
 Feedback Extortion
Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
Feedback extortion is not a reason for feedback removal under eBay’s Abuse, Withdrawal and Removal Policy.
Please include the full header of any email you send as evidence.
http://pages.ebay.ie/help/policies/feedback-extortion.html   (274 words)

  
 Extortion Items
Gene Autry Extortion Case FBI Files On CD-Rom
FBI Files: Errol Flynn White Slavery And Extortion Case
Steve Allen Extortion Cases FBI Files On CD-Rom
http://www.sportrucks.net/extortion.html   (229 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: EXTORTION!
What you probably don't know is that the ACLU is using your money to do it – such as when it received close to half a million taxpayer dollars after successfully suing to have the 10 Commandments removed from Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's courthouse.
"Suing the pants off America" by Sherrie Gossett, a groundbreaking and in-depth investigative report exposing how the ACLU uses litigation, recruiting and legal "extortion" to keep its coffers full.
The headlines assault us daily: "Silent Night" can't be sung at school; the Defense Department must stop sponsoring Boy Scout troops; a tiny Christian cross must be removed from the Los Angeles County seal; Nativity scenes on a courthouse lawn are unconstitutional.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41808   (967 words)

  
 Legal Definition of Extortion
The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Extortion *
EXTORTION - The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent.
The Hobbs Act defines "extortion" as "the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2).
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e073.htm   (106 words)

  
 CITES BY TOPIC: alien
26 U.S.C. §872: Extortion by officers or employees of the United States
- Extortion by officers or employees of the United States
See also Blackmail; Hobbs Act; Loan sharking; Shakedown.
http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/CitesByTopic/extortion.htm   (311 words)

  
 extortion
[n] unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority): "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty".
http://lookwayup.com/lwu.exe/lwu/d?s=f&w=extortion   (33 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: extortion
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A tag is like a subject or category.
http://www.technorati.com/tag/extortion   (467 words)

  
 OSCN Found Document:Definition of Extortion
Cite as: O.S. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another with his consent, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right.
http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeID=69901   (29 words)

  
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Blackmail is a form of extortion in which the threat is to expose embarrassing, damaging information to family, friends or the public.
It is a felony in all states, except that a direct threat to harm the victim is usually treated as the crime of robbery.
http://dictionary.law.com/definition2.asp?selected=709&bold=   (74 words)

  
 Definition of "Extortion"
Extortion (Black's Law Dictionary - 6th Edition) is defined as:
http://www.clr.org/extortion.html   (34 words)

  
 D wedding put extortion off the hook
Police sources say there may be several reasons for it.
The number of extortionists arrested in July-August is 26, (20 locals and 6 gangsters) as compared to 21 arrested in June-July, said a senior crime branch officer.
“The extortion threats were under control since a long time, and other factors viz deluge, marriage etc has no direct relevance to the fall in the number,” Roy said.
http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2005/august/117340.htm   (712 words)

  
 Kidnap Ransom Extortion Insurance
However, the use of kidnapping or extortion to gain access to industrial secrets, to make socio-political statements, or for monetary purposes, continues to rise.
This product is optimal for personal and corporate individuals, especially those who have international affiliations.  The optional EPIC 2 Supplement allows this plan to be tailored to your specific requirements.  It is cost effective and sensible coverage.
http://www.eglobalhealth.com/kidnap-ransom-extortion-insurance.html   (324 words)

  
 O'Reilly: Female Aide In $60M Extort Bid - October 13, 2004
In an aggressive preemptive strike filed today in New York State Supreme Court, O'Reilly names Fox associate producer Andrea Mackris and her lawyers as defendants in the action, which charges them with extortion, infliction of emotional distress, and wrongful interference with contractual relations.
O'Reilly claims that Mackris, 33, and her counsel tried to extort hush money from him by threatening to file a bombshell lawsuit, a copy of which you'll find below.
OCTOBER 13--Claiming that he was the target of a $60 million shakedown bid, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly today filed a lawsuit against a female colleague who has been threatening to lodge a harassment complaint against the TV personality over offensive comments allegedly made to her by the "O'Reilly Factor" host.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013042oreilly1.html   (311 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon/InformationWeek - Cyber Extortion Study
The guidelines will describe the most common methods extortionists use against their targets, how to ready your information infrastructures against this, and what to do if you become a victim of extortion - regardless if you plan to work with law enforcement or not.
Second, create immediately usable guidelines for organizations that may be "at risk" to extortion.
This research has two goals: First, generate the first academically available statistics on the advent and threat of cyber extortion against small and medium sized businesses.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gbednars   (402 words)

  
 Extortion - Findlaw for the Public -
Most states define extortion as the gaining of property or money by almost any kind of force, or threat of 1) violence, 2) property damage, 3) harm to reputation, or 4) unfavorable government action.
For example, Dan goes to Victor's place of business and demands monthly payment from Victor for the business's "protection" from vandalism and after-hours theft.
While usually viewed as a form of theft/larceny, extortion differs from robbery in that the threat in question does not pose an imminent physical danger to the victim.
http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/a-z/extortion.html   (231 words)

  
 Online extortion works The Register
Extortion is always a problem for law enforcement, since the blackmailer has something over those he's blackmailing.
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
To my mind, this is one of the great extortion scenes in literature (and I'd love to hear if my readers can think of any others).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/online_extortion_works   (1057 words)

  
 Is Scientology Breaking the Law? - Extortion
Patrick Jost says two Scientology representatives tried to get payment for past services (which were originally delivered on a "sponsored" basis) and to get him to sign up and pay for two more years of services; when he refused, one threatened that he could kill Patrick with a thought.
This page was last updated on May 8, 1999.
Yolanda Howell describes both financial and emotional extortion - being forced to pay off her "freeloader’s debt" and being threatened repeatedly with loss of contact with her children.
http://www.scientology-lies.com/extortion.html   (393 words)

  
 Kidnap Ransom Extortion
Kidnap Extortion and Detention are real dangers for companies operating both overseas and in domestic markets.
It would be relatively straight forward if companies were exposed only to day to day commercial and competitive threats, however many business hazards today are far more difficult to protect and quantify.
They are often overlooked by management on the grounds that "it won't ever happen to us", but the damage this can inflict on a business can be very severe - as the annual roll call of corporate and individual victims around the world testifies.
http://www.kidnapransom.com/Kidnap___Ransom/kidnap_ransom.html   (333 words)

  
 Experts fret over online extortion attempts - Security - MSNBC.com
While there have been a string of reported payoffs by online gambling sites, there is no hard evidence that more general e-commerce sites have buckled under.  Some experts are skeptical of widespread extortion claims, which often come from vendors who sell software solutions to denial of service attacks.
A computer security worker at a major New York-based financial institution, who requested anonymity, said not only was his bank targeted recently, so were many other major banks, brokers and other financial service providers.
"The basic contents were an extortion threat, a request (that said) 'Pay us a significant amount of money, otherwise we'll attack your servers.' That's basically what happened.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6436834   (1464 words)

  
 None Dare Call It Extortion (December 1999)
Leave it to President Clinton to lack the shame to attempt his extortion publicly.
There is nothing new about politicians' threatening businesses with controls and taxes if they don't obey.
http://www.fff.org/comment/ed1299y.asp   (605 words)

  
 Power Line: The NAACP resorts to extortion
The NAACP, a once-great civil rights organization, will now devote itself to extorting money from corporations whose predecessors it thinks can be tied, in some fashion, to slavery.
The extortion tactics are described by the Washington Times.
The money will come from shareholders who had nothing to do with the "peculiar institution," and whose ancestors probably didn't either.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011004.php   (250 words)

  
 USAT's $9 day use extortion
The content of the USAT's $9 day use extortion article is:
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Since 2001, over 90,000 cyclist's have joined Cycling Forums to discuss topics from general cycling to equipment, training, racing and travel or vacation destinations (especially in europe during the tour de france).
http://www.cyclingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-16481.html   (3238 words)

  
 ♫ Crazy Beat Records -Extortion
We can offer several Extortion deals that are available to you from a Extortion CD album to a Extortion vinyl album.
We offer Extortion at reasonable prices for individuals and wholesalers.
Crazy Beat Records Extortion 45’s UK are a Extortion Shop tailored to meet the needs of every consumers Extortion CD requirements.
http://www.crazybeat.co.uk/Extortion.htm   (527 words)

  
 List or Blacklist? =TheHill.com=
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, compiled his list to show that many business groups hire more liberal Democrats than conservative Republicans, and wants to reverse this trend.
The list consists of the names of several thousand Washington lobbyists and association employees, their party affiliation, if known, and political contributions.
MICHAEL S. DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe on the K St. Project: “I call it extortion.”
http://www.hillnews.com/062602/ii_kstreet.aspx   (745 words)

  
 RESULT GROUP - Kidnap & extortion
Throughout the case the victim’s family was counselled by an experienced psychologist.
Home > Services > Security and crisis management > Kidnap and extortion
International security experts have detected a consistent increase in kidnap and extortion.
http://www.ov3.de/templates/5560/start.php?file=content.htm&nid=22&sid=&ovs_lang=en   (398 words)

  
 BW Online August 22, 2000 Cyber-Extortion: When Data Is Held Hostage
Although computer-security experts believe cyber-extortion remain relatively infrequent, incidents such as the Bloomberg case are becoming more common.
Bloomberg reportedly brought two London police officers, one posing as a company executive and the other as a translator, to the meeting.
They promptly arrested Zezov and Yarimaka, who have each been charged with three felony counts, including extortion and unauthorized computer intrusion, in the U.S. Despite the outcome, the incident requires a closer look.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2000/nf20000822_308.htm   (1088 words)

  
 mhrsr03
Those who unable to serve in forced labour duty has to hire a person on his behalf and those who had no money to pay for various extortions were forced to serve as military porter to the frontline.
On 20 October 2003 the SPDC military officer forced the people from Pyicha, Myitchinzu, Lerhpadoh, Wagon, Mawkakle, Kataungni and Pasaw O village, which situated 50 miles in the south of Tavoy to work as domestic labours.
Every month the SPDC's village headman demanded them 500-1000 kyat to feed the arriving SPDC troops.
http://www.karen.org/refugees/humanrights/Info03/October03.htm   (2324 words)

  
 Here is the card you requested my master
The acting minion's controller takes control of this card (put this card in play).
A Methuselah can burn the Edge to burn all Extortion cards he or she has.
He or she can burn the Edge to burn all Extortion cards he or she has.
http://monger.vekn.org/showcard.html?ID=1001   (116 words)

  
 Networking Pipeline Blog
The company says it is in negotiations with several Web sites willing to pay extra fees to BellSouth for more bandwidth than it provides to other sites.
BellSouth's new business model, a slightly more polite form of the kind of extortion practiced by Tony Soprano, is starting to pay off.
Provides speedy, secure remote PC access, dynamic inventory, automated scripting and more.
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/bellsouth_cyber.html   (553 words)

  
 Empire Movies - Movie News, Notes and Rumors
Filming is expected to begin later this year.
"Extortion" is an urban crime thriller set in Los Angeles.
Tyrese will play a street-tough detective who risks blowing his cover when he investigates his foster brother's murder.
http://www.empiremovies.com/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1054646380,93435,   (197 words)

  
 Bible Law
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for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.'
'Ezek 22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.'
http://www.biblelaw.com/cgi-bin/stc.cgi?tn=extortion&tt=s   (217 words)

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