Ferguson was found guilty on nine of 11 counts, including racketeering and several counts of extortion.
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If found guilty of extortion, he could be sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Mr Gomez was arrested in 2008 and charged with kidnapping, extortion, rebellion and giving false testimony.
Most independent monitors blame the Indonesian forces, involved in extortion rackets of one kind or another.
The virus amounted to "digital extortion" and victims should not pay up, said German police.
"This is a form of digital extortion, " said the BKA in its alert about the virus.
Alas, most businessmen submit to the 'ndrangheta's extortion and others willingly exploit the local situation.
The extortion epidemic has badly hit a business community already affected by an industrial slowdown.
Police say the extortion rackets are partly run by two crime dons living overseas.
It was all UNNECESSARY, if only FBAR compliance, and not penalty extortion, the main objective.
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"It's absolutely a form of extortion, " says attorney David Stetler, who successfully defended TAP exec Alan MacKenzie.
But elsewhere, impoverished militia groups appear to be reverting to old ways - turning to banditry and extortion.
His underlings levied arbitrary taxes on the Lebanese, and practiced other forms of extortion, car theft and racketeering.
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Sporkin rejected that argument, writing in his opinion that Cisneros failed to prove that extortion was Medlar's motivation.
"The model in people's heads right now is extortion, " Robert Reich, President Clinton's former labor secretary, tells me.
Mr Montesinos filmed his bribery and extortion on videos, 700 of which are in the hands of prosecutors.
Pavel Ryaguzov, a former agent with the FSB, Russia's domestic-security service, was acquitted of a related extortion charge.
It is among the states with the highest levels of homicide, extortion and kidnapping, according to official statistics.
He also uncovered records showing that Mr. Spier was accused, but never convicted, of extortion and attempted larceny.
Property agent Girish Acharya says three sales he brokered fell through because the potential buyers received extortion calls.
They are advised that if they receive an extortion threat, they should report the matter and not negotiate.
Complaints of extortion more than tripled from 251 in 1997 to 806 between January and November last year.
Kilpatrick, who was convicted of an array of racketeering and extortion charges, faces at least 20 years in prison.
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The family has leveled five counts against him: invasion of privacy, defamation, libel, harmful access by computer, and extortion.
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But Selna accepted Monex's argument that the Gilliams were engaged not in protected activities but in unprotected attempted extortion.
Sgarbi was sent to jail for six years for fraud and attempted extortion.
Kennedy died in 2009, and DiMasi is currently on trial for extortion and corruption and may go to jail.
Earlier this year, a German court convicted Kani Yilmaz, Mr Ocalan's representative in Europe, of extortion and attempted murder.
Fraud, theft, forgery, extortion and the wrongful use of a power of attorney are other common forms of financial abuse.
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