On the one hand, former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze engaged in what amounts to blackmail.
They are also charged with conspiracy to make threats to kill and conspiracy to blackmail.
In 2009, Klatten won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, an ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions.
Seven men charged with conspiracy to blackmail after a series of explosions in Staffordshire have been charged with further offences.
The ex-fiance of Tamara Ecclestone has denied trying to blackmail her saying he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
Thomas Harris, 27, of Ringwood, Hampshire, has also admitted conspiracy to blackmail, but he did not enter SHAC until 2007, the court heard.
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But frustrated United Nations officials say, in private at least, that this can easily lead to blackmail - the demands simply go on rising.
Cynics brushed aside that move as a ploy by the Nationalist leader, Devlet Bahceli, to blackmail the coalition into letting him replace Mr Ecevit.
His final week in office has been clouded by scandal, with allegations swirling in the Italian media that gay clergy may have made themselves vulnerable to blackmail by male prostitutes.
Edvinas Sermuksnis, 30, also from Belfast, 43-year-old Kevin Proctor from Stoke-on-Trent and Martin Drewery, 42, from the Staffordshire Moorlands, were previously charged with conspiracy to blackmail and bailed, police said.
Southwark Crown Court heard Mr Rose and media studies student Uddin, 20, plotted together to blackmail Ms Ecclestone and drafted an email together which they sent to her manager Dana Malmstrom.
Southwark Crown Court heard Mr Rose and student Mr Uddin plotted together to blackmail Ms Ecclestone, telling her manager Dana Malmstrom the money was offered for details of the former couple's relationship.
Nicole Vosper, 22, from Newquay, Cornwall, and Sarah Whitehead, 53, from Littlehampton, West Sussex, have admitted conspiracy to blackmail companies and suppliers linked to the Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) between 2001 and 2008.
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If someone tries to blackmail a software company by threatening to expose a bug then let them sue, but saying that full details can only be given to trusted insiders is surely not acceptable.
The European monetary system has allowed some countries to get a free ride at the expense of others, while those who cheat are in a position to blackmail those who have to foot the bill.
The accusations against O'Brien follow a buzz in Italian media about claims that gay clergy may have made themselves vulnerable to blackmail by male prostitutes, setting off speculation that a brewing scandal may have triggered Benedict's resignation.
Jason Taft, 41, of Greenfields Farm, Stoke-on-Trent, Thomas Richard Lesley, 55, his son Thomas Lesley, 34, both from Belfast, and Andrew Boal, 32, from Ballygowan, Newtonards, County Down, were previously charged with conspiracy to blackmail and have been remanded in custody.
Malicious hackers wanting to try to identify and exploit flaws in the code in order to blackmail the company are another possibility. (Some reports said the attack originated in St Petersburg, and suggested that the Russian mafia may have been involved.) And there is always the chance that some 15-year-old whizz-kid did it all for fun or to impress his friends.
That's why the Republicans in Congress have resorted to extraordinary blackmail tactics to try to ram their program through.
Even as the probe of the relationship between Mr. Petraeus and Ms. Broadwell intensified in late summer and early fall, authorities were able to eventually rule out a security breach, though intelligence officials became concerned Mr. Petraeus had left himself exposed to possible blackmail, according to officials.
The statement added the three-times former world champion and his son had also attempted to "blackmail the team" into allowing Piquet Jr to continue to drive until the end of the 2009 season.
Would that have been any less true if the United States itself had been subjected to Iraqi blackmail?
Labour MP Angela Eagle told BBC Radio 4's The World at One the situation the cardinal was placing the government in was close to "blackmail".
Mr Lawan has said he accepted the money in order to expose blackmail and informed the committee and the anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), about it.
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