Word: extortion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INDICTED. EDWIN EDWARDS, 71, former Governor of Louisiana, in an alleged scheme to extort millions for awarding riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards denies he did anything illegal...
...Director George Tenet, "demonstrates that the U.S. government will not rest" in hunting down spies, "nor will we be intimidated by threats of blackmail." But Justice Department and CIA officials refused to explain why it took authorities almost two years to arrest Groat after he allegedly first attempted to extort money from his former employer...
...henchmen looking to extort money from the more estimable of the two Mr. Lebowskis have accidentally searched out the Dude instead, and when the Dude proclaims his indifference to the whole situation, one of the goons pees on his rug. (No one said this movie is elegant...
SENTENCED. AUTUMN JACKSON, 23, misguided blackmailer who attempted to extort $40 million from the man she would like to call Dad, Bill Cosby; to 26 months in prison; in New York City...
Stupidity and naivete, it seems, are no excuse under the law. Autumn Jackson faces as much as 12 years in prison and $750,000 in fines because of a clumsy attempt she made to extort money from the man she says she thought was her father. (In case you've managed to miss this one, BILL COSBY claims that he had a one-night stand with Jackson's mother many years ago and that he's been paying her to keep quiet about it--but that Autumn is not his child.) If she is a Cosby, she certainly didn...