At least one was accused by colleagues of trying to extort money by threatening negative coverage.
To experts, this looked like a ploy by a failing company to extort money.
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.
They were suspected of hacking into US internet companies, stealing sensitive data and trying to extort money.
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.
Tribesmen may then resort to kidnapping to extort money from the government, local oil companies or even foreign countries.
Sounds a lot like patent trolling, a much-vilified practice in which contingency lawyers or small companies with no operations sue businesses to extort money.
Fake and hacked accounts are everywhere on social networking sites and are frequently used to send malware or occasionally to extort money out of friends.
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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.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
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.
According to Radio Liberty, drivers are using the cameras to fight back against Russia's notoriously corrupt traffic police, and scammers trying to extort money out of drivers.
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.
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.
This is yet another example of the cynical use of the American legal system to extort money out of successful companies in the name of protecting innovation and innovators.
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.
It says it can point to "numerous" cases where police have tortured people "in an attempt to extort money, extract a confession, or simply because of the victims' sexuality or ethnic origin".
But on 15 August 2011 Coats forced John Glen to strip naked in an attempt to extort more money from him.
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.
He said it was Mr Uddin who came up with the "ludicrous" amount of money and he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
The ex-fiance of Tamara Ecclestone has denied trying to blackmail her saying he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
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