There is a suspicion that the maras may be letting businesses recover, the better to extort from them later.
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Honiara's special constables regularly extort money from the government, including extravagant allowances and overtime payments.
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The police also urge users to call authorities immediately if someone tries to extort money from you.
Public buses in Honduras are frequently attacked by gangs who rob passengers and extort money from drivers.
"The not-so-subtle insinuation that Ms. Kelley attempted to extort money from your clients is unfounded and reprehensible, " DePrimo responded.
So Castaeda is floating his idea to extort bribes from the United States.
Tribesmen may then resort to kidnapping to extort money from the government, local oil companies or even foreign countries.
The gang has grown into a sophisticated criminal enterprise where members are assigned military titles like "general" and extort money from fellow prisoners, regardless of race.
Passengers in the oncoming car were injured as well, and Mr. Hughes later called them "lowlife scum" after he alleged they tried to extort money from him.
It's about the phenomenon of expressed kidnappings, where someone is grabbed for a short period of time in order to extort money from them or their families.
But many fear that greedy local officials will be tempted to peek at the information and use it to extort money from those who have violated the law.
Two of the officers raped the woman inside the car, while the third took her fiance to a nearby ATM to extort money from him, the woman said.
In court arguments, Cisneros's attorneys, Brendan Sullivan and Barry Simon, argued the tapes were not admissible because they were made in an illegal attempt to extort money from Cisneros.
Cash-hungry North Korea has nuclear technology, an outlaw willingness to conduct tests, and long experience in wielding its nuclear ventures to extort concessions from the U.S. and its allies.
Two of the officers then raped the woman inside the car, while the third took her fiance to a nearby ATM to extort money from him, the woman claimed.
Middlemen in Latvia, in cahoots with virus writers in neighboring Russia, were so brazen as to try to extort ransom from companies in exchange for sparing them from a virus-aided attack.
Detectives also investigated Gibson's charge that Grigorieva, a Russian musician, tried to extort money from him with recordings she made of his telephone calls, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.
Bolivian authorities arrested six government officials last month, accusing them of trying to extort and steal from Ostreicher.
But on 15 August 2011 Coats forced John Glen to strip naked in an attempt to extort more money from him.
The North was once able to use promises to scrap its nuclear-weapon programmes as a means to extort hard currency from South Korea, America and Japan.
These non-practicing entities, companies with no operations, and contingency lawyers, would acquire patents and then go out and extort rich licenses from large corporations with legal claims, usually in Eastern Texas.
Once he took control of the PC, he would search for sexually explicit photographs and financial information, and attempt to use what he found to further extort pornographic videos from his victims.
One Western diplomat told me that bribes paid to Taliban commanders by private security contractors, along with the other ways that the Taliban extort Western money, from aid projects to military bases, are themselves enough to finance a robust insurgency.
Coats, from Glasgow, was further found guilty of three other charges relating to his threatening behaviour towards John Glen and Patrick Burns to extort thousands of pounds from them, as well as stealing Mr Burns' car on 18 May 2011 after Coats said he would stab him with a pen.
"It is for continued exploitation of my name that I am being kept in Ashworth to extort ever-increasing funds from government and fan public fears, " he writes.
One reason why this is a problem is that unscrupulous retailers can extort a few extra dollars from their customers by extending the range--for example, by keeping a few pricey bottles on the shelf with no intention of selling them.
This is an unfortunate attempt to extort unreasonable and unfair fee increases from Cablevision and our customers.
As far as they are concerned, it is acceptable to stand in breach of international law and basic standards of humanity in order to extort Israel to free mass murderers from prison.
Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat is receiving more U.S. political support for his efforts to extort via terrorism additional, dangerous concessions from Israel than at any time since Bill Clinton left office.
Could it be that these same organizations have acted in concert with Gorbachev for the cynical purpose of enhancing his ability to extort aid, technology and enhanced political support from gullible Western leaders?
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