Reflex Media accused five businesses in a federal complaint of setting up fake accounts on its Seeking Arrangement dating site to get personal information about users that they use to extort the men by threatening to post the information online with false claims of child predation.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Alameda County and Leaders in Community Alternatives of racketeering, for allowing Leaders to “extort money” by charging $25.50 a day for court-ordered GPS or alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelets.
Read moreCompleting an anti-corruption crusade that swept New York’s government, a federal jury found the state’s former Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son guilty on all counts at a retrial on Tuesday.
Read moreTwo men alleged to be the co-owners of Mugshots.com had their own booking photos taken on Wednesday after South Florida police arrested them following a warrant issued by California’s attorney general.
Read moreProsecutors in Los Angeles on Wednesday charged a man they say tried to extort money from comedian Kevin Hart by threatening to sell a sexually suggestive video of him with a woman in Las Vegas to celebrity news websites.
Read moreA former staffer for a member of Congress faces up to 18 years in prison after a federal jury on Thursday convicted him of bribery and attempted extortion for taking $5,000 to protect a Compton marijuana store from closing.
Read moreCharged with accepting more than $300,000 in bribes, the former deputy of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won dismissal of an extortion count ahead of closing arguments set to begin Tuesday.
Read moreA Rhode Island state senator under investigation by state police since January was arrested Friday on charges of video voyeurism and extortion.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a gay porn actor’s conviction for blackmailing a Florida tech tycoon, ruling that fear of repetitional harm supported the government’s federal extortion charges.
Read moreSt. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said Thursday she will launch a criminal investigation into whether Governor Eric Greitens blackmailed a former mistress.
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Parents of an autistic child sued a Texas school district this week, claiming that when he resisted a teacher’s efforts to “save” him through religion, she falsely reported him for making a terrorist threat and got him thrown in jail.
Read moreA prominent member of the LBGT community claims an adult entertainment company tried to extort him and other subscribers by falsely accusing them of pirating its content on file-sharing sites, and demanded thousands of dollars to settle the cases out of court.
Read moreThe four Teamsters who crashed a “Top Chef” shoot with shouting and slurs won acquittal on federal extortion charges Tuesday.
Read moreA jury weighing federal charges against four Teamsters who antagonized the Boston set of the popular reality show “Top Chef” in 2014 began deliberations Thursday after six days of testimony.
Read moreTestifying against a group of Teamsters who crashed the set of Bravo television series “Top Chef,” stars Padmi Lakshmi and Gail Simmons said the ordeal terrified them.
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A former congressional staffer who worked for current LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn has been charged with taking $5,000 in bribes from a marijuana dispensary.
Read moreIn opening statements of the union members’ extortion trial, prosecutors said Tuesday that a quintet of Boston Teamsters terrified Top Chef star host Padma Lakshmi with a threat to “smash your pretty little face.”
Read moreA Seattle man was arrested Friday and charged with extortion: allegedly threatening a Dallas-based case law aggregator website with cyberattacks if an unflattering court decision about his criminal history was not taken down.
Read moreSinger-songwriter Chris Brown claims in a lawsuit that a lawyer used armed men to try to extort him for $300,000 in the Philippines, threatening to have him jailed on phony charges and delaying his exit flight.
Read moreLess than halfway through his federal corruption trial, Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams pleaded guilty Thursday morning to a single count of bribery and resigned his office.
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