Extortion is a strong word, and I resent that.
Quotes about extortion (16 Quotes)
He thought because he didn't carry the money out of the restaurant that he could get out of the charges. He didn't know extortion is the threat, not the exchange of money. When his lawyer realized he was going away, that he wouldn't have a chance of any kind of dealing with the Feds, he assumed he needed to do something, I guess, to justify him getting his fee. So, he called the Knoxville paper and told them who I was. On the complaint I was just listed as 'victim.
A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion.
The men you got to know don't strap bombs to their bodies. But each man in the conspiracy ... raised money for the overarching goal ... of murder and extortion.
As privately held companies continue to escalate their activity in areas that were once considered the domain of large publicly owned companies, they have increased their exposure to potentially costly liability-related lawsuits, as well as to crime events such as workplace fraud and extortion. In an area such as directors and officers liability, the stakes can be especially high and financially devastating.
It's a wonderful thing if they want to volunteer extra things. But to ask in a manner that indicates you will not be in support of a project if they don't do what you ask of them is extortion.
I understand the business decision that was made. I'm just tired of this extortion. This thing is a ridiculous red herring.
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
From the experimenting stage, it moved to vandalism, and we had all these defacement attacks. After that, it became politically motivated and we kind of expected the next phase to be cyber-crime. That's the stage we're in today with these kinds of extortion attacks.
Similar to the SE Asian tsunami tragedy, this hurricane is another dreadful natural disaster that these ruthless hackers are exploiting in order to break into computers for spamming, extortion, and theft,
Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
When more of the peoples sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
This is not something I would expect to yield very high profits for criminals as compared to other types of financial fraud and extortion that might take place. Many people have backups of their files, and now the code has been cracked.
The wedding video was on Marc's laptop computer and stolen from his car in October. It was the ultimate extortion plot, or so these guys thought.
It was clear early on that these individuals were involved in a large operation involving gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and drug trafficking.
Why isn't there a fear of extortion if the speech could help destroy his business