They cheated their own people and used extortion against them in doing the overlords' dirty work. |
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The feud is the result of a long-standing turf war between the two groups to control the North's drug trade and extortion rackets. |
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The offence of blackmail broadens the current offence of extortion by certain threats. |
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It used to be that the gangs would never demand extortion money from the bars or restaurants in their own neighbourhoods. |
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Brute force, extortion, and bribery are not a policy, they are the last refuge of a mafioso. |
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How can any ordinary citizens respect it if the mafia literally gets away with murder, violence, theft and extortion time and time again? |
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Bribery puts dirty money into the hands of politicians, but corrupt politicians are exposed to extortion from Mafiosi. |
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I am concerned that companies are falling victim to online commercial extortion and we are not being told. |
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Soon enough, this partnership produced a vipers ' nest writhing with snakes practicing bribery, extortion, drug dealing, and murder. |
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In football, the spoils go to the team that wins on the field, not the team that uses lobbyists and extortion behind closed doors. |
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That sounds like there's some logic, you can button it up, if it comes down to simply extortion for money. |
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He was charged earlier this month with extortion and assault after allegedly standing over a Campbellfield real estate agent. |
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They welcome outsiders with threats and extortion, and steal food from aid convoys. |
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Animal-rights activists are exploiting loopholes that, for example, prevent the use of extortion law unless the extorter seeks personal gain. |
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The warden of the prison denied accusations that he turned a blind eye to the extortion of prisoners' families by his guards. |
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Eastern Division detectives yesterday intensified the hunt for a woman in her mid-20s, who is believed to be part of an extortion ring. |
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She is said to have made a roaring business out of extortion and prostitution. |
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To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery. |
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Unsurprisingly, given the risk of arbitrary expropriation and extortion, the ordinary people responded by living in studied indigence. |
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Politics here is completely conditioned by an armed band that wants to impose its criteria through extortion and killing. |
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Weren't you convicted of burglary and subsequently charged with extortion, money laundering, and illegal pony insemination? |
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The military has also been widely accused of involvement in arms running, people smuggling, drugs, illegal logging and extortion rackets. |
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They are immersed in exploitation, extortion, and illegal rackets within prison walls. |
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Bangkok overloads you with life, with white heat and hassle, with seediness and enterprise, with extortion and ancient beliefs. |
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Not a day passes without reports of mugging, murder, dacoity, extortion and kidnap making it to the front page. |
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He's 43, been a copper for 25 years and has a pedigree of detective work, having covered ganglands, drug trafficking and extortion. |
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For instance, extortion threats against online bookmakers have become an increasing problem in recent months. |
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Every state in Europe with commercial interests in the Mediterranean had knuckled under to the extortion. |
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Crimes leading to imprisonment included prostitution, drug use, larceny, robbery, parole violation, and extortion. |
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They are on a mission to attain power by using economic extortion to dictate what people are allowed to eat. |
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Several times, the family had to pay extortion money to get him released from the illegal custody. |
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The underworld is once again making extortion threats to Bollywood figures. |
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This technology is just too well suited to industry extortion for that not to be a significant driving force behind it. |
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At the least, we can ask that American citizens not pay extortion money to enemy governments in a time of war. |
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The offence of blackmail is broadened from the current offence of extortion by certain threats. |
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He also runs a number of extortion rackets and has been convicted for damaging bars in and around Belfast. |
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If a policeman or a civilian asks for payment, remember extortion is a criminal offence no matter who does it. |
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This is really scraping the bottom of the barrel and amounts to little more than extortion. |
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Firms who experience such extortion threats should contact the police, Barrett advises. |
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It's not gang turf warfare over drugs, prostitution, extortion or anything like that. |
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The code also enjoins the rebels and the government to refrain from any provocative acts such as arrests, kidnapping and extortion. |
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There was no extortion or threat that J.D. could avoid charges if he acted in some manner. |
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Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning. |
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Since large sums were often paid for shrieval office, we may guess that the profit was good, and there is evidence of various types of extortion. |
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At the time of his extortion conviction, van der Sloot showed no remorse for the blackmail. |
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There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes. |
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Police nabbed the truck driver at a bakery in the German city of Bochum, where he had set up a drop for the extortion money. |
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Did he participate in his own extortion and cancel his plans for a big Christmas premiere? |
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Their gang, The Firm, established a Mafia-style grip on the city's criminal underworld in the 1960s, specialising in protection and extortion rackets. |
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On April 29, 2008, the delle Donnas were found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion and tax evasion. |
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And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after. |
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She refused to take a paternity test, and was eventually convicted of extortion and sentenced to 22 months in prison. |
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There could be a number of potential crimes, not the least of which could be extortion. |
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Two cases seem possibly to indicate that kidnapping for extortion is established by proof of an unlawful confinement and asportation without proof of a specific intent. |
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Watch video of her underage drinking, public indecency, and extortion that warranted time in the slammer. |
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He was an alleged extortion victim of Bulger, who had engaged in a hostile takeover of a liquor store that Rakes once owned. |
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This was an economy of licence fees, backhanders and extortion. |
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It advocates walking the extra mile, which, far from being capitulation or forfeiture of rights, is unflinching self-assertion and composure amidst adversity or extortion. |
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The Delle Donnas were charged with three counts of conspiring to commit extortion and tax evasion, and two counts of mail fraud. |
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According to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the arrests are related to a police investigation into a case of criminal damage and extortion by triads. |
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As well as being able to impose military discipline on members, the organisation can raise millions of pounds through robberies, smuggling, extortion, blackmail. |
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And non-lethal crimes, such as assault, extortion, and theft are also high. |
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The extortion then funds the further activities of the terror cell. |
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It also details the parasitic activities of individual officials who live a relatively privileged existence based on extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption. |
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Locals often advise visitors to show their empty palms to monkeys if they are in the preserve and want to avoid their importunate extortion of food. |
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But charging extra is a bad practice and it is nothing short of extortion. |
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Corruption and extortion are constant themes in the local press. |
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The evidence was that the threats made to him as a result of his failure to pay extortion money on the coffee plantation in Risaralda continued there. |
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Later in 2003, Lara filed a countersuit accusing the teenager of extortion, defamation and malicious prosecution. |
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This is nothing but delayed extortion, but I have heard rackets like this referred to as a cottage industry. |
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Tamil Tiger activists are also suspected of involvement in widespread credit card scams, fraud and extortion. |
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The Yakuza syndicates are involved in activities ranging from prostitution and drugs to extortion and white-collar crime. |
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Pirate fleets exercised hegemony over villages on the coast, collecting revenue by exacting tribute and running extortion rackets. |
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It accused the crown of extortion, perversion of justice, and election fraud. |
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In all dealings between natives there is invariably a species of extortion, a sort of dustoory, which is given in all money transactions. |
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Even where illegalism was the norm, he stood out, his career littered with examples of extortion, bribery and intimidation. |
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A religious polemic of about this time complains bitterly of the oppression and extortion suffered by all but the richest Romans. |
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In some quarters, it has become a war of fake blogs, spambots, and astroturfing, and in some extreme cases, extortion. |
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Blackmail, extortion, and racketeering were considered acceptable. |
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Semenchuk controlled the local populace and his own staff through open extortion and murder. |
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Methods used to maintain the monopoly involved extortion and the violent suppression of the native population, including mass murder. |
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Even if not formally authorized, captains sometimes supplemented their earnings by undertaking a bit of piracy and extortion on the side. |
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Caesar was still deeply in debt, but there was money to be made as a governor, whether by extortion or by military adventurism. |
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Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace. |
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Galeano is facing prosecution for illegal deprivation of liberty, extortion, instigation of perjury, and embezzlement in connection with the AMIA lawsuit. |
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These terrorist groups frequently participate in more obviously criminal activities such as extortion, theft, robbery, pipeline vandalization, as well as hostage taking. |
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On the other hand, this also could mean the payment of immense subsidies to foreign powers and opened the possibility of extortion in case military means were insufficient. |
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Some criminals have engaged in acts of sabotage for reasons of extortion. |
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In modern times, tourists in Acapulco have been facing problems with local corrupt police who steal money by extortion and intimidate visitors with threats of jail. |
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Not all that far into the future, these wonky phrases will escape from editorial pages and policy papers to become the stuff of extortion, gunplay, and mob bosses. |
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