Michael Enriquez, 55, of San Antonio, was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in federal prison for lying to the FBI by falsely implicating a federal bankruptcy judge in prostitution, and obstructing justice by fabricating emails and to corroborate his lies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said.
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Long before he stepped down as president of the National Rifle Association, Oliver North cemented his reputation for overthrowing governments and financial improprieties in the Iran-Contra scandal. The NRA has taken the retired U.S. marine to court now over another “failed coup attempt,” saying North conspired with Ackerman McQueen, a public relations firms that has been representing the NRA since the 1980s, to topple the gun group’s leadership.
Read moreA Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) — Over a year after his representation of porn actress Stormy Daniels made him a household name, lawyer
Read moreAn Argentine man who preyed on the deep pockets of lovelorn people who hired him to cast love spells, only to be extorted for thousands of dollars, was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
Read moreLess than a year after bringing Trump accuser Stormy Daniels into the limelight, attorney Michael Avenatti received a one-two punch from federal prosecutors on both coasts Monday.
Read moreA federal judge has ruled the maker of a male enhancement pill must face claims it sent shakedown letters to gas stations and markets that sold a competing brand of pill.
Read moreA New Jersey appeals court revived extortion charges Tuesday against a man said to have tried to blackmail a money manager before several Playboy bunnies accused him of rape.
Read moreIn an extraordinary blog post accusing President Donald Trump’s favorite supermarket tabloid of “extortion and blackmail,” Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos expressed his desire to “roll this log over, and see what crawls out.”
Read moreAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday he was the target of “extortion and blackmail” by the publisher of the National Enquirer, which he said threatened to publish revealing personal photos of him unless he stopped investigating how the tabloid obtained his private exchanges with his mistress.
Read moreIn a lawsuit filed Wednesday morning, R&B superstar Mariah Carey accused her former personal assistant of threatening to release secretly recorded videos if the singer didn’t pay $8 million.
Read moreGutting a federal class action accusing Alameda County and a private contractor of charging inmates on pre-trial detention exorbitant daily fees for ankle monitors, a federal judge on Friday dropped the county from the case and advanced just one racketeering claim.
Read moreA wave of bomb threats swept across the United States on Thursday, prompting evacuations at courthouses, businesses, schools and places of worship.
Read moreA successful New York artist who shacked up in the Hamptons with a younger man he met online brought a lawsuit Thursday, claiming that he was the victim of a humiliating extortion attempt.
Read moreA federal judge sentenced a Texas woman to 88 months in prison Thursday for her role in a scheme to extort money from dozens of people in three states by falsely representing via prepaid phones that their children had been kidnapped.
Read moreA Miami man sued Advantage Rent A Car in a Colorado state court Monday, claiming that an employee rented him a Toyota Camry at the Denver International Airport packed with 40 pounds of pot in the trunk.
Read moreReflex 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.
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