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"blackmail" Definitions
  1. the crime of demanding money from a person by threatening to tell somebody else a secret about them
  2. the act of putting pressure on a person or a group to do something they do not want to do, for example by making threats or by making them feel guilty

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The federal blackmail statute might not classify Mr. Bezos' case as blackmail.
"We will not yield to the blackmail of the street nor the blackmail of the offices," it adds.
If Republicans are willing to blackmail the government and Democrats aren't, they get more concessions from that blackmail.
So they are engaged in a complicated process of both trying to blackmail the West, and blackmail South Korea and most importantly trying to blackmail China, keep adversaries at bay and continue to be able to attract the kind of support they need to continue to exist.
UK facing accusations of blackmail over its formal Brexit letter UK facing accusations of blackmail over its formal Brexit letter The road to divorce is rarely smooth.
FBI issues warning of adultery blackmail scam This week, the FBI in Jacksonville, Florida warned about a similar blackmail scam that threatens to reveal information about acts of adultery.
For all the reasons that Democrats didn't want to give in to Trump's shutdown blackmail, they are not going to want to give in to debt ceiling blackmail either.
Blackmail by a foreign government was one such reason, and the allegations of abuse leveled against Mr. Porter by his ex-wives certainly qualify as a basis for blackmail.
This is nothing else except blackmail, and we do not give in to blackmail, and North Korea and the head of the North Korea Stalinist regime should not test this president.
Greitens is also facing blackmail allegations -- among other things.
He described a witch hunt involving blackmail and secret meetings.
The I.A.A.F. said the four had conspired to blackmail athletes.
Mr Greitens admits the relationship but denies blackmail and violence.
Being rich may make you an alluring target for blackmail.
We are not giving in to nuclear blackmail any longer.
She did blackmail, stalk, and secretly bully them for years.
Greitens admitted to the affair but denied the blackmail allegations.
Emma: The best defense against blackmail is not being silent.
It fostered a culture of bribery, blackmail, and official corruption.
The dossier alleged that Russia used this to blackmail Trump.
"We cannot give into blackmail from any country," he said.
Greitens had acknowledged the affair but denied the blackmail allegation.
"Such acts are nothing but political blackmail," the commentary said.
"I wouldn't even know how to blackmail someone," he said.
Was the threat to publish the photos extortion or blackmail?
But an indictment for sexual blackmail and assault should be.
"People asked me not to give in to blackmail," Valdivielso said.
It means Flynn could have been subject to blackmail by Russia.
" However, his attorney told KMOV-TV that "there was no blackmail.
The regime's nuclear blackmail must be met with increased international pressure.
In the wrong hands, it could have been used for blackmail.
"Blackmail much?" one person who was there in June told me.
I wanted to show her but never to force or blackmail.
In those cases, it amounts to blackmail, which is a crime.
Foster said the EU's stance on Northern Ireland amounted to blackmail.
Sanchez allies have likened the Catalan negotiating tactics to political blackmail.
As far as blackmail goes, it was a relatively small request.
He is surely not above attempted blackmail at an opportune time.
On Friday morning, he essentially decided to threaten to blackmail Comey.
I cannot say that [Trump is not subject to Russian blackmail].
Read more: The bombshell report that Russia can blackmail Trump, explained
This is how you handle someone trying to leak or blackmail.
False advertising, child pornography, blackmail—all are speech, all are illegal.
If it looks and feels like political blackmail, it usually is.
It executed Poles who betrayed Jews or tried to blackmail them.
For just one time, couldn't they refrain from attempting municipal blackmail?
He has denied engaging in blackmail or any other criminal wrongdoing.
The NDA does, however, show that Trump was susceptible to blackmail.
They could also use sensitive health and financial data for blackmail.
Megalomania, emotional blackmail, prostitution, drug dealing, and creepy men named Bob.
"It was blackmail," Michael told The New York Times in 2007.
Previously, homophobic violence lent itself to small-scale incidents of blackmail.
In two emails, Preacher's motivations appeared to veer closer toward blackmail.
Among other things, such a person could be subject to blackmail.
There was a gay wedding that involved a prostitute and blackmail.
He was given a suspended jail sentence for assault and blackmail.
Greitens denied he resorted to blackmail but admitted to an affair.
Oh fuck, I just realized that's the dictionary definition of blackmail.
But multiple blackmail attempts left her with no choice, she said.
Sky's blackmail threatened to hurt his family, so he killed her.
How do you blackmail someone when both sides know the story?
Furthermore, by doing this, Mr. Trump opened himself up to blackmail.
Ms. Yates testified that Mr. Flynn's behavior exposed him to blackmail.
Governments at home and abroad have used sex to blackmail dissenters.
Forget the allegations of blackmail, extortion, and possible foreign tampering Bezos raised.
China said it would not accept "intimidation or blackmail" and pledged countermeasures.
"There is no 'blackmail,' and that claim is false," Greitens's lawyer said.
"Someone is attempting to blackmail me using illegally obtained information," he added.
I'd suggest checking out your boss' feed for long-forgotten blackmail material.
I'm not intimidated by their media blackmail, nor their attempts at demonization.
The mines that are not paying, they want to blackmail the government.
As the researchers note, this makes users vulnerable to blackmail and stalking.
And the Facebook group has created an entire network of blackmail targets.
China called the move "blackmail" and warned it would respond in kind.
The very thing Canadian officials feared—blackmail of LGBTQ2 employees—was happening.
What occurred in Chechnya in late winter went beyond beatings and blackmail.
If the Panthers want to blackmail me out of Marchessault, too bad.
Sexual blackmail has long been a tool in the Russian espionage arsenal.
She records her during a drunken rant and uses it as blackmail.
She makes her take off her clothes and photographs her for blackmail.
Stolen phones have been used to commit identity theft, blackmail and fraud.
It can include blackmail, and it has proliferated online as a cybercrime.
President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, reportedly faced a blackmail attempt.
While he has since admitted the affair, he denies the blackmail allegations.
MILI believes the government is using the economic crisis to blackmail workers.
Using the data to blackmail someone who visited a particularly embarrassing site?
Mr. Bezos called the offer "extortion and blackmail" in his Medium post.
"His most recent threat… amounts to nothing more than political blackmail," Rep.
They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.
"There was no blackmail," Zelenskiy said during an interview in early October.
Such information could be easily used to embarrass, blackmail, or encourage discrimination.
Eric Greitens admits to affair but denies blackmail allegation The "shithole" day.
He said it looked like blackmail — and that he could prove it.
The weaker gang uses a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's 'clients.
Those workers could be subject to blackmail or recruitment, the report said.
Russian officials even used it to blackmail Trump, according to the dossier.
Eric Greitens is confronting bombshell allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail -- salacious charges that have forced a rising Republican star to acknowledge that he had had an extramarital affair, but also vehemently deny that he had resorted to blackmail.
The above scenario constitutes quid pro quo harassment, a form of sexual blackmail.
The headline was, David Letterman says he's the victim of a blackmail plot.
"The level of this New Year's speech is almost blunt blackmail," says Thae.
" Hook said he would share his views in Paris on Iran's "nuclear blackmail.
M. remembered how the caller turned his threat into an attempt at blackmail.
Putin also denies having any information he could use to blackmail President Trump.
She watches with a smile as the carnage of her emotional blackmail unfolds.
Does the government use blackmail in order to counter political opposition in Russia?
They also have a crazy story about "golden showers," prostitutes and potential blackmail.
Unless, of course... there is another explanation for American Vandal's surprise cancelation. Blackmail?!
"Such methods of extreme blackmail will not bear fruit against China," it said.
He accused AMI of blackmail and extortion but has yet to sue them.
Cruz said the Obama administration's approach was effectively "blackmail" and "abused" executive power.
Sometimes that was monetary, sometimes it was pressure, it almost amounts to blackmail.
"Sorry, but we will not bend our knees over this blackmail," Erdogan said.
Alejandro García Padilla accused the agency of "blackmail" and emphatically killed the idea.
At the time, the intelligence community was concerned the Russians could blackmail Flynn.
They secretly surveilled numerous Trump associates, looking for political intel and blackmail material.
Again, this would likely have been to put pressure on a blackmail target.
In other words, blackmail and intimidation are part of his stock in trade.
Did consent, revenge porn, and blackmail enter their mind while developing this algorithm?
With the government, the fear was straightforward espionage: spies and blackmail and treason.
But he also weathered an attempt at blackmail and a high-profile divorce.
President Richard M. Nixon instructed aides to blackmail Mr. Martin's successor, Arthur Burns.
Flynn had misled them, and as a result he was vulnerable to blackmail.
The law was often used as a cudgel to intimidate, blackmail and abuse.
"There was no blackmail," Mr. Zelensky said at a news conference this month.
One persistent but unproven theory was that he ran a sprawling blackmail operation.
If The National Enquirer simply published the photos, it would not be blackmail.
"It absolutely is not extortion and not blackmail," Abramowitz told ABC on Sunday.
There could be some hanky-panky that opens the president up to blackmail.
And did the Russian government secretly tape it in order to blackmail him?
The episode illustrates one way the Kremlin has blackmail material over the president.
She accused him of "emotional blackmail" and of trying to force himself on her.
He redirected the alleged Russian blackmail story with the accusations against BuzzFeed and CNN.
Incidentally, the Enquirer allegedly also tried to blackmail reporters investigating its links with Trump.
She worried that one of the country's top officials was vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor, described the federal threat to withhold the funds as blackmail.
She used them as blackmail to force Jenna to carry out her poop demands.
If not, at least you have an embarrassing video to use for future blackmail.
Tria's office later issued a statement saying he regretted his "unfortunate" remark regarding blackmail.
"This regulation would be used as a form of federally sanctioned blackmail," Johnson said.
She has been instrumental to resolving cases of victims of blackmail throughout the world.
Russia was also targeting Lithuanian businessmen and diplomats working in Moscow, often using blackmail.
It details the unverified charge that the Russian government has blackmail material on Trump.
The next morning, Diski found a letter from Lessing, accusing her of emotional blackmail.
If Bezos' accusations of blackmail and extortion are true, its deal could be jeopardized.
"There were certain types of blackmail negotiations I would not engage in," she said.
Exactly what danger does this kind of political blackmail pose to democratic self-government?
The dossier indicated that Russian intelligence videotaped this encounter to use to blackmail Trump.
Manafort says the documents are forgeries as part of an attempt to blackmail him.
Hence Russia now had the ability to potentially blackmail the US national security adviser.
Revenge porn weaponizes an intimate moment into a form of exploitation and even blackmail.
"There was no blackmail and that claim is false," Bennett said in a statement.
Possibly it's blackmail or his fear of people suspecting that Russia saved his businesses.
Blackmail should not and will not work for Mr. Erdogan if we remain resolute.
The report has led many alt-right Trump supporters to accuse CNN of blackmail.
Bezos later wrote a blog post accusing the publisher of trying to blackmail him.
Using the children's grades as leverage, Maria plans to blackmail the parents into favors.
Nor will we ever accept that refugees are weaponized and used to blackmail us.
It is a form of blackmail as we are about to form the government.
While research finds that nuclear blackmail rarely works, Mr. Kim could still be tempted.
But this sort of emotional blackmail does have its limits, especially in election years.
I would dissect them, and then use them as blackmail against the Roy family.
He said they sought to influence ministry appointments and some tried to blackmail him.
The journals reveal, and spark, a plethora of transgressions: theft, blackmail, adultery, parental cruelty.
In a message posted Saturday, thedarkoverlord criticized Netflix for not meeting its blackmail requests.
Holyoake is accusing the brothers of "blackmail, extortion, and intimidation," according to The Guardian.
Putin didn't exactly deny having blackmail material, but Trump seemed to think he did.
It's very easy to blackmail someone whose family depends on their salary, but it's very difficult to blackmail someone by just saying 'I'll expel you from studies,' because they'll just say 'I don't give a shit, I believe in this too strongly.
It describes the tactics used by the super-league cartel as "extremely close to blackmail".
The visa revocation has prompted many Colombians to accuse the United States of political blackmail.
"This is the intolerable, politically motivated provocation and tyrannical blackmail ...," it said in a commentary.
Whatever it is, it is a level of blackmail that the American people cannot afford.
"He's trying to blackmail the committee," Nadler said Wednesday evening of Barr's unwillingness to appear.
In a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Seacrest accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him.
The video purported to show her father's graft conviction had been the result of blackmail.
Back in 22017, the agency tried to blackmail the Civil Rights icon into killing himself.
Greitens, 44, admitted to the affair but has denied all allegations of abuse and blackmail.
And it is once again using the threat of nuclear arms to blackmail the West.
Even with weapons of mass destruction, Iran cannot simply blackmail Israel to achieve its goals.
This blackmail was then used to both keep them in DOS, and maintain its secrecy.
The Bitcoin-spam-scammers have moved on from fake blackmail threats to fake bomb threats.
So is his casual propensity for torture, and his blackmail tactics, which include child murder.
"... We will, of course, accept no ultimatums or blackmail methods," Interfax quoted him as saying.
Instead, she had tried to use those as blackmail near the end of their relationship.
Some sellers have made matters worse with techniques ranging from opaque pricing to emotional blackmail.
Blackmail phishing includes sextortion, the topic of a separate analysis from Barracuda released last month.
" Rousseff said she believes she is being targeted because she "never gave in to blackmail.
"I don't think Putin needs anything on him," Mr. Duchovny said of the blackmail rumors.
Serbian rebels blackmail you into helping their cause by defrauding a gauche German arms dealer.
Bezos makes no bones about it ... calling it blackmail, but adding AMI miscalculated his reaction.
He plays Tim, a hapless drug dealer whom the girls blackmail into becoming a hitman.
He offers her more money, she says she's cool with just continuing to blackmail him.
In a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Seacrest accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him.
She alleged that Belafonte would use the tapes to blackmail her into having more threesomes.
Comey also said it is "possible" that Russia has something it can blackmail Trump with.
At home, the United States can continue to fortify its national defenses against nuclear blackmail.
"This rule could potentially be used to blackmail innocent businesses during labor negotiations," said Sen.
Kim's cache thus allows him to play a "huge game of blackmail," as retired Col.
Most of the men have faced some form of discrimination or blackmail for being gay.
" Sanchez added that forming a stable government "is not done with blackmail, but with dialogue.
We would gather information on employees who were susceptible to blackmail due to these weaknesses.
He still seemed incredulous over what he called the "blackmail" that led to his departure.
Depp's marriage to Heard ended in divorce amid bitter allegations of domestic abuse and blackmail.
For example: In the first episode, Nolan, the saboteur du jour, attempts to blackmail Caitlin.
A central government source later said Madrid viewed a formal independence declaration as "unacceptable blackmail".
The North Korean regime "is engaged in a huge game of blackmail," explains retired Col.
Eric Greitens, as the governor faces an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail.
I will tell you, this American design of this blackmail strategy, it will never yield.
Now, it is on the cusp of holding the United States hostage to nuclear blackmail.
The authorities say he used the pictures as blackmail and raped some of the boys.
A 2006 court filing by Ellison's lawyer accused Alexander of trying to blackmail his campaign.
Many members said they feared that confessions about indiscretions would be used to blackmail them.
It might try to expand its cyberattacks for profit, or blackmail countries for economic aid.
The men also used the fact that the Ukrainians were here illegally to blackmail them.
Plot points include commodity price fixing, a class-action lawsuit, architectural commissions, adultery and blackmail.
One, and probably first and foremost, is the counterintelligence concerns that we have about blackmail.
"It's true that Zelensky said he didn't feel pressured and that there was "no blackmail.
Lawmakers and former administration officials said the allegations could have left him susceptible to blackmail.
I'm not trying to blackmail you, your producers, the publishing house or your literary agent.
The weapons' purpose is blackmail and self-protection, with no Cold War grand strategy involved.
But Republicans say unions could use this information to "blackmail" federal contractors during labor negotiations.
Addressing the matter Thursday, Zelensky said there was "no blackmail" during the leaders' phone conversation.
And many were forced to collaborate through blackmail or threats against members of their family.
He alleged an "extortion and blackmail" attempt by the Enquirer's parent company American Media Inc.
Eric Greitens following allegations of blackmail against a woman with whom he had an affair.
February: Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer publisher AMI and its CEO of "extortion and blackmail."
Paying blackmail to India and China under the Paris Accord also is a dead end.
One can understand the argument that hush money seems to smack of bribery or blackmail.
"This is the intolerable, politically motivated provocation and tyrannical blackmail...," it said in a commentary.
It involves allegations of illegal wiretapping, cover-ups, sex addiction, drunk-driving cops, and blackmail.
" The core question is, "Are you susceptible to blackmail from a foreign entity or individual?
There's the possibility of blackmail based on giving money or lending money or guaranteeing something.
The book, in the early 1990s, was used to blackmail him, as he describes it.
A reader who thinks, for example, that Comey and other federal law enforcement officials are generally decent and honorable people may find it hard to believe that they briefed a president-elect about potential blackmail so that a news outlet could report on that blackmail.
Anything in a person's background that could make them vulnerable to blackmail can be a factor.
The same Cambridge Analytica that loves illicit data and brags to clients about bribery and blackmail?
The admission came after a CBS News producer allegedly attempted to blackmail him over the affairs.
Last month, Greitens admitted that he had an affair, but denied trying to blackmail the woman.
Greitens has admitted to having the affair, but has denied her allegations of blackmail and abuse.
Greitens has admitted to having the affair but has denied her allegations of blackmail and abuse.
The track — translation: "blackmail"— only includes four words in English, including "pretty boy," which is fitting.
Benji even kept the video to use as blackmail over his friends, like a true sociopath.
Nevertheless, the ongoing criminalization of homosexuality leaves LGBT people ostracized and vulnerable to violence and blackmail.
Now, she's written several Kindle books about her work including: Consensual Blackmail Manual, PornSexual and Techdomme.
They hate giving up every policy idea in the face of the blackmail the government shutdowns.
She knows blackmail has to be hit head on, and she has no trouble at all.
A sweaty looking Hannah opens up her blackmail box, which contains Aleksander's old passport and gun.
It features passive-aggression, emotional blackmail, threats, and the odd apology thrown in for good measure.
Unauto VTC, an association representing the ride-hailing services, said taxi sector "blackmail" had "kidnapped" Barcelona.
"We won't accept any maximum pressure, intimidation or blackmail," Hua told a news briefing in Beijing.
Cillizza: There are any number of allegations against Greitens -- from the blackmail to campaign finance violations.
Money, ideology or blackmail are more likely to procure "allegiance, obedience and adherence" than a passport.
Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into Bezos' claims of blackmail against AMI, Fox News reported.
We should expect them to resist anything that seems to be "blackmail" by the Great Satan.
Without this juicy blackmail material literally falling into his lap, Logan would have lost Waystar Royco.
Then the account's admins were later caught in a blackmail scandal that left them behind bars.
There are unconfirmed reports that Russia also collected compromising information it could use to blackmail Trump.
Jeff and Shaleia did not respond when asked to comment on the letter and blackmail allegations.
This was nearly a decade before allegations of branding, blackmail, starvation, and sex slaves would surface.
Eric Greitens, accused of trying to blackmail his lover with nude photos: by blaming … George Soros.
Former members have also accused the group of using nude photographs of its members as blackmail.
Mr. Greitens admitted the affair, but said he never hit her, coerced her or threatened blackmail.
But if nothing else, the Manafort indictment underscores the Trump campaign's astonishing vulnerability to Russian blackmail.
"I kinda thought I could blackmail his publishers into reading it," the squatter told Willamette Week.
Rather than come clean, Bart decides to roll with it and then use spoilers as blackmail.
Steele's dossier had also asserted that Trump could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, among other things.
It's this note that Sky stole from Gigi in order to blackmail her for major money.
We all can play a role in helping to determine whether companies succumb to Beijing's blackmail.
But everyone was all worked up and excited about it—cackling about blackmail and dick pics.
But, that evening, another Post article appeared online, this time about the Justice Department's blackmail fears.
It has elite parties, love triangles, blackmail, murder, and yep, you guessed it — sweet, sweet revenge.
Chinese financial blackmail might be an old worry, but recently it's entered an entirely new phase.
Police believe the suspects were trying to blackmail the victim's cousin, state news agency Andina reported.
A 22-year-old was convicted after trying to blackmail Apple for $100,000 of iTunes cards.
Blackmail is a strange offense because it involves two acts which, if undertaken separately, are legal.
You never know when you'll have a chance for blackmail or some hot live-tweet content!
The producer, Robert Halderman, pleaded guilty to larceny, a charge that covers blackmail in New York.
That prompted China on Wednesday to say "blackmail" wouldn't work and to threaten to hit back.
Most well known are the allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail that first surfaced in February.
That was Pieter's way of repaying Will for keeping his name out of the Judith blackmail scheme.
Eric Greitens, a rising star in the GOP, admitted the affair but denied the allegations of blackmail.
She implies that they wanted the relationship to happen, and are being "manipulative" now to "blackmail" Kelly.
The researchers suggest that lack of protection could enable anything from simple voyeuristic nosiness to blackmail schemes.
"There are a range of issues, like blackmail and extortion," Young said on the phone from Gaborone.
It was akin to "business blackmail," said a person familiar with MSCI's negotiations with Chinese regulatory authorities.
Russian hackers steal US Military "revenge" porn from secret Facebook groups and use it for political blackmail.
The richest man in modern history is caught in a bizarre sexual blackmail plot with geopolitical implications.
So she and her friends kidnap him, hold him hostage, and find a way to blackmail him.
"Threatening to punish your rivals as political blackmail is something we'd see from the Kremlin," Grijalva said.
But beyond acting in service of the truth, Yates feared that Flynn might be vulnerable to blackmail.
"One thing is blackmail and another is murder," the "Vaina Loca" singer's attorney, Antonio Sagardia, told WAPA.
She denies that blackmail actually took place, and appears to have written the letter out of coercion.
That offers no reassurance, retort opponents: Chinese dissidents routinely face trumped-up charges like bribery or blackmail.
However, he denied accusations that he had used blackmail to keep the woman quiet about the affair.
Outside of impersonation schemes, the company highlighted two other spear phishing techniques: business email compromise and blackmail.
The e-commerce titan has accused American Media of trying to use the materials to blackmail him.
How they flaunt photos mysteriously obtained from the victim's phone, sometimes using them for harassment or blackmail.
" Julieta asks before her daughter leaves for retreat, to which Antía replies, "Mom, don't blackmail me, please.
Source: DOJ warned Trump administration last month that Michael Flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by Russia.
Once promised, what more would the regime demand, backed by threats and blackmail, to keep a freeze?
No country or actor should be able to coerce, blackmail or hold America hostage to its policies.
He was re-elected saying the bailout, the country's third since 2010, was a product of blackmail.
The unverified dossier raised the possibility Trump could have been vulnerable to Russian blackmail during the election.
Trump's predecessors gave in to blackmail from Arab and Muslim leaders, the fictional "Arab street" and terrorists.
Greitens was accused in January of sexual misconduct and blackmail following an investigation by CNN affiliate KMOV.
Stand up for yourself, and don't put up with anyone who tries to blackmail or overpower you.
Bezos later accused the magazine of trying to blackmail him over salacious details from his extramarital relationship.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned Wednesday that he would not yield to "blackmail," according to Reuters.
There are descents into madness, prolific drug use, orgies, blackmail photos and suicide attempts, successful and otherwise.
There was "Black Hand" crime, a form of blackmail peculiar to Italian immigrants perpetuated by various gangs.
Investigators typically raise flags about behaviors that might make someone vulnerable to blackmail or suggest poor judgment.
I'd prefer my database be used to change elections and blackmail hypocritical, holier-than-thou American politicians.
The mean, venal, ridiculous shutdown would continue, but federal workers would no longer be used for blackmail.
He'd emotionally blackmail me into buying him expensive presents to show him how much I loved him.
Karim Benzema, theoretically the bad guy in the blackmail case, is from a deprived background in Lyon.
Recently, we had an ex-colleague try to report us out of spite, trying to blackmail us.
Putin didn't need to collude to make him president, but he needed to blackmail him into running.
BERLIN — The pages of outstanding arrest warrants cover a range of crimes: robbery, blackmail, fraud, even murder.
Greitens admitted to the affair, but denied ever engaging in blackmail, coercion or acts of sexual violence.
An undisclosed contact is not simply potential grounds for perjury, it's potential blackmail material for foreign adversaries.
Other information was used to blackmail officials, who had to pay Shaltai Boltai to keep it confidential.
Stay tuned... Don't forget the Joe and Mika case The Enquirer has been accused of blackmail before.
The Justice Department feared this lack of disclosure could make Mr. Flynn vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
As a result, the Justice Department feared that Mr. Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
A leaked dossier purporting to contain possible Russian blackmail material on Mr. Trump dominated headlines for weeks.
For example, the FBI falsified letters in an effort to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr. into silence.
Dictator Putin's speech is an act of escalation dominance and nuclear blackmail aimed at the United States.
Mr. Bezos alludes to another potential motivation for A.M.I.'s blackmail threat: He owns The Washington Post.
The meeting gave the Kremlin potential blackmail material against the Trumps, and thus possibly leverage over them.
But Salvini said Rome would not "yield to blackmail" and that armed forces were ready to intervene.
Moscow would have been able to potentially blackmail Flynn by threatening to release that career-ending information.
Participants were forced to provide potential blackmail material, or "collateral," such as explicit videos or damaging information.
In some cases, they had obtained naked pictures of the victims and used them for blackmail, he said.
Seacrest has staunchly denied her allegations and accused her of blackmail, and his employers have stood by him.
Intellectuals, businesspeople, celebrities, civil society organizations (CSOs), media organizations and journalists are being silenced via threats and blackmail.
In fact, journalist Ronan Farrow has said he was also the victim of attempted blackmail by the company.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, alleged the Enquirer attempted to blackmail and extort him.
Many countries are hostile to any concessions for Britain that would seem to be giving in to blackmail.
It alleges that the Russians have a lot of leverage over President-elect Trump, including some blackmail material.
She said she walked in on him at the time — and used it to blackmail Joe growing up.
To this opponents retort that Chinese dissidents routinely face trumped-up charges of offences like bribery or blackmail.
Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero told parliament the government would "not give in to blackmail" over the budget.
Azriel's parents never attempted to blackmail anyone and never suggested their daughter take nude photos or sexual videos.
"This, of course, assumes the end to the policy of ultimatums, sanctions and blackmail," Lavrov told a briefing.
The leak was allegedly part of a blackmail plot that hasn't been fully explained by the Ecuadorian government.
But it was alleged that they used the secrets to blackmail their clientele into staying with the church.
" The Pulitzer Prize winner says he "fielded similar 'stop digging or we'll ruin you' blackmail efforts from AMI.
Activists say the law at issue, commonly called Section 377, is used to harass and blackmail gay people.
A number of media executives face investigation for bribery, blackmail, and money-laundering in cases with political ties.
In one of the Senate's most shameful episodes, Bridges is believed to have masterminded the blackmail of Sen.
It puts him in a position to blackmail the South and other countries in the region, and us.
The two talk marijuana and browser history in an exchange that can only be described as mutual blackmail.
China's investments spread across Oceania along with the same peril of debt-trap diplomacy — in simpler terms, blackmail.
She then shared screengrabs of an Instagram exchange with one of the people who attempted to blackmail her.
Our enemies likely have a blackmail file on her, which should actually disqualify her from running for office.
This blackmail, as much as $80 billion a year transferred from local government to corporate treasuries, must end.
Anything that could be used against someone to blackmail or bribe them into working for the other side.
Several people have tried to uncover the identities of AlphaBay staff in an attempt to generate blackmail material.
Although the law is rarely enforced, it is used to intimidate, harass and blackmail gay people, activists say.
So Bobby and Chuck this week formed a sort of bucket brigade of back stabbing, bribery and blackmail.
Several Republican lawmakers signed a letter asking the state attorney general, Josh Hawley, to investigate the blackmail claims.
Rather, the tape matters because, if real, it would show the president to be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
The justices seemed moved by the stories they heard from the petitioners about harassment, blackmail, abuse and persecution.
She has no official identification and figures some blackmail might earn her the money to buy a card.
I believe we can have a breakthrough without blackmail and with respect in the sovereignty of this country.
It would take an entire column to explain the Greitens saga, which involves bondage and accusations of blackmail.
"It's everything — it means that they're able to collect information to blackmail members of Parliament," the official said.
The dossier concluded that Russia had personal and financial material on Trump that could be used as blackmail.
There hasn't been a collective solution to the refugee problem so we find ourselves exposed to this blackmail.
Now, the Trump dossier reveals that candidate Trump is also deeply flawed, subject to blackmail and a pervert.
"I believe we can have a solution without blackmail and with respect for each country's sovereignty," he said.
Greitens, who was elected governor in 2016, has admitted to the affair, but has denied the blackmail charges.
Although the law is rarely enforced, activists say it is used to intimidate, harass and blackmail gay people.
"There was no blackmail and that claim is false," the governor's attorney, James Bennett, said in a statement.
CEO David Pecker says his client did not engage in extortion or blackmail against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The worst decision was A.M.I. deciding to attempt to blackmail the wealthiest man in the world via email.
It also offers cover for those who want to blackmail, harass or sexually assault gay and transgender people.
The strange thing about extortion and blackmail is that at least part of the conduct may be legal.
And on a pragmatic note, he pointed out that Smollett could've taken a much simpler path, like blackmail.
In the United States, the federal government and all 50 states have criminal statutes covering extortion and blackmail.
Or his claim that The National Enquirer publisher had tried to blackmail him with copies of intimate pictures.
He went to the F.B.I. instead, and the F.B.I. encouraged him to go public with the blackmail attempt.
In the old days, it took time and work to steal secrets, blackmail people, and meddle across borders.
It centered, naturally, on recent unverified reports that Russia may have a blackmail file on the president-elect.
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates warned the Trump administration that Flynn's lie left him vulnerable to blackmail.
Sally Yates alerted Comey that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail Comey confirmed that then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates alerted him in January that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his conversations with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, and could be vulnerable to blackmail.
"There was no blackmail, and that claim is false," Bennett said in a statement Greitens shared on social media.
Russian intelligence has historically conducted blackmail – known as kompromat or "compromising material" in Russian – to coerce targets into submission.
Speaking of memories, we hope Kelly makes the most of this amazing blackmail material when his children get older.
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Yates later testified under oath that she warned the White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
"There is no 'blackmail' and that claim is false," attorney James Bennett said in a statement posted on Twitter.
Sensitive data falling in to the wrong hands leading to blackmail or extortion, an extreme example but not outlandish.
It depicts Jews as lowlifes who made up the whole Holocaust "business" to blackmail Germany for billions of dollars.
It also said Gad had been caught trying to steal company money and then tried to blackmail the company.
Nix speaks of setting up fake IDs, websites, and identities in target countries to gather information and blackmail material.
It says a Macedonian parliament vote that backed the name change was rigged through blackmail, threats and vote-buying.
Schilmiller also confessed to planning to kill another person and to plans to blackmail Brehmer afterward into raping people.
The New York prosecutors have separately accused Avenatti of trying to blackmail Nike Inc for more than $20 million.
After an exhaustive search, they find some good fodder for blackmail: The inspector's wife is having a torrid affair.
Yesterday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail" involving a story published last month.
And they want more attention paid to the kind of blackmail that's becoming more frequent in the hospitality industry.
Officials in China, meanwhile, who have called Mr Trump's tariffs an act of "blackmail", could retaliate in other ways.
China said it would not accept any "intimidation or blackmail" and pledged countermeasures should the tariffs go into effect.
In a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Seacrest denied the claims and accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him.
"There was no 'blackmail,' and that claim is false," Bennett said in a statement posted to Greitens' Twitter account.
Many modern-day threats—from terrorism to energy blackmail and cyber-security—are best dealt with by civilian bodies.
French officials said the EU faced "blackmail" by hardline pro-Brexit potential successors to May, such as Boris Johnson.
But it certainly appears to be a steep escalation of a bitcoin blackmail tactic that took off this summer.
But the mere suggestion that a foreign government might have any basis to blackmail the American president is alarming.
It might seem a little blackmail-y, so this particular route might be a little dicey, Dr. Bonior says.
Angela, the child with the most influence over their mother, was made to join in the campaign of blackmail.
CFIUS worried China could blackmail users of the gay dating app who were trying to hide their sexual identity.
Kim Jong-un's missile program will soon give him a delivery system for nuclear blackmail against the United States.
She shared screenshots of an Instagram conversation appearing to show somebody using the screenshot to try to blackmail her.
He blamed the expulsions of Russian diplomats from outposts in 24 countries on a "colossal blackmail" campaign by Washington.
Anxiety over China's influence operations has grown over Beijing's willingness to coerce, blackmail and bribe people in other countries.
One noteworthy attribute that Epstein and his apparent friend MBS share is a history of being accused of blackmail.
But this looks like blackmail, and besides, you would have no way of knowing whether he kept his word.
Greitens has acknowledged the affair but said any allegations of non-consensual sex, blackmail or violence are simply false.
Russia has denied responsibility for that poisoning, and has blamed the U.S. for orchestrating a blackmail campaign against it.
Through his lawyer, Greitens explicitly denied ever taking a photo of the woman or ever threatening to blackmail her.
Party volunteers pushed back at accusations of blackmail even as some acknowledged those who signed up would receive money.
He said he was joking, but I couldn't tell if he was trying to intimidate me, or blackmail me.
Data showing an official bought a piece of malware for potentially illegal purposes could leave them open to blackmail.
Senator Lopez received a call warning him that if he did not pay blackmail, his daughter would be murdered.
The countersuit denies all of Moi's allegations and stops just short of suggesting that his claim amounts to blackmail.
The breach poses a national security threat as hackers can use Americans' personal information for blackmail or future attacks.
And soon the cobblestones are awash in blackmail, arson and murder, with Agatha naturally in the thick of it.
In the case of celebrities, scammers often attempt to blackmail their victims, using the threat of publishing their image.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian also accused Turkey on Tuesday of using the refugees to "blackmail" Europe.
Afterward, one of the men took a selfie with A. "I was afraid he would blackmail me," he said.
And you would remain — in their telling — the monster who was guilty of emotional blackmail, coercion, theft and mismanagement.
Outside places of worship, queer Nigerians are frequently subjected to violent attacks, blackmail, extortion, indiscriminate arrests and public ostracism.
It also included unsubstantiated claims that the Russians had embarrassing videos that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump.
The puzzle-story involves Nazi cryptography and a blackmail plot that could have changed the course of the war.
Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, has accused the owner of the National Enquirer of trying to blackmail him.
It is true that the Kremlin denied holding any material that it could use to blackmail the incoming president.
In Raniere's case, he said, blackmail and the presence of a child victim pushed it into the criminal realm.
" Greitens's attorney, James F. Bennett, denied the blackmail claim, saying the KMOV News 4 report "contained multiple false allegations.
"The White House's extreme pressure and blackmail are already clear to the international community," said a state television commentary.
Was there any sort of secret arrangement between the Trump team and Russians, involving money, policy promises, or even blackmail?
Since then, undercover videos taken by journalists appeared to show executives offering clients election services that included blackmail and entrapment.
In a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Seacrest accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him and again denied her claims.
During a debate in its Strasbourg chamber, members across the political spectrum denounced Erdogan and Turkish "blackmail" over the refugees.
He then threatened to blackmail her, the woman says in the recording, which the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also obtained.
What starts as "just one shipment" ends in a Machiavellian plot that somehow incorporates both water aerobics and serial blackmail.
The floor leader of Ms. Park's governing party in Parliament, Won Yoo-chul, called Mr. Qiu's warning "blackmail" on Wednesday.
The White House, meanwhile, is accusing Iran of "nuclear blackmail" and vowing to never allow the regime get a bomb.
She said Flynn might have put himself in a compromising position, possibly leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail, the official said.
To Indians, such threats fit with a long pattern of cynical nuclear blackmail stretching back to crises in the 1980s.
On the other hand, this could be seen as a way of trying to blackmail exploits, rather than patch them.
Turchynov, acting as the go-between, further toyed with Ieremenko by telling him the blackmail sum was twice as much.
Even before Libla circulated his letter, the Senate's two top Democrats had called for an investigation into the blackmail allegation.
But never has she publicly admitted that her irresponsible, illegal, and undemocratic behavior made her a subject of political blackmail.
He has denied threatening to blackmail her and his attorneys have noted that the alleged photograph has never been produced.
The allegations include what CNN says is a possible blackmail attempt by President Vladimir Putin, using "compromising information" on Trump.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico also said it was "blackmail" to tie the issue of EU funding to migration policy.
She also said that the Trump administration was aware of her concern that Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by Russia.
" According to Bloomberg News, federal prosecutors are currently reviewing the Enquirer's conduct after Bezos accused AMI of "extortion and blackmail.
An aggrieved (or opportunistic) vendor who thinks a customer's review was unfair may publish the delivery address or threaten blackmail.
As predicted, Davis proceeds to blackmail her, saying that if he doesn't get joint custody of Micah, he'll expose her.
His letter comes as the tabloid has faced allegations from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos that it tried to blackmail him.
What else but blackmail can explain why Trump would exclude his own staff from his two-hour meeting with Putin?
"If criminal evidence of blackmail emerges, he is done," says David Kensinger, a former chief-of-staff to Mr Brownback.
Reports surfaced that federal officials are investigating an alleged blackmail attempt that reportedly includes a "sexually provocative" video of Hart.
The data, which goes back to 1985, was gathered so that American counterintelligence officers could assess employees' vulnerability to blackmail.
And he repeatedly lied about his business efforts in Russia, thereby opening himself up to blackmail by a foreign power.
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What he discovered was a tale of legal intimidation, online harassment, and blackmail much darker than he could ever imagine.
Greitens acknowledged last week that he had an extramarital affair before becoming governor, but vehemently denied threatening anyone with blackmail.
It's not that the Trump campaign wasn't studded with people who were, at a minimum, profoundly vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
Inspired by the 1971 Baker Street robbery, The Bank Job tells an outrageous story of blackmail, burglary, and British intelligence.
We Palestinians, on the other hand, constantly had to prove our seriousness of intent, and often faced threats and blackmail.
She's called the Blackmail Girl because she's recording their conversations for a book that will launch her literary career. Maybe.
A person familiar with the National Enquirer's operation told CNN Business that similar accusations of blackmail might come to light.
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates then warned the White House that its national security advisor was vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
That gives them leverage to manipulate or blackmail Trump, especially if the President said something that was incriminating or embarrassing.
The Kremlin has prolonged its aggression in Ukraine while attempting to free itself from sanctions by bribery, blackmail, and subterfuge.
Botnets could also be used in advertising fraud and blackmail, according to Daniel Miessler of IOActive, an internet security consultancy.
Any unilateral threat or blackmail will only lead to intensification of conflicts and damage to the interests of all parties.
Mr. Sánchez's government rejected this proposal as political blackmail, insisting that such a referendum was incompatible with the Spanish Constitution.
"We will not succumb to pressure, blackmail, threats and intimidation," the justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
Using the hashtag #CNNBlackmail, right-wing Twitter users accused CNN of trying to blackmail the man who made the video.
So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be the president of the United States.
In early Scottish law, both sides of a blackmail scheme were considered criminals, even those we would now consider victims.
Steamy texts, a private investigation, claims of blackmail — and a suspicion that politics are behind it all — followed Mr. Bezos.
What if someone ransacked the biohazardous waste at the clinic where Olivia had her abortion and is trying to blackmail her?!
Reports on Monday said the Justice Department had earlier warned the White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
The report raised concerns that if the claims are true, Russia could use the compromising information to blackmail Trump as president.
After seeing the incriminating video, Franklin said the cousin "knew he had gold" and wanted to basically blackmail West over it.
Moore was only taken down on federal charges he paid another individual to hack into another's computer to obtain blackmail material.
The official added Moody's data might also help to identify people or corporations which might be susceptible to bribery or blackmail.
Countries in eastern and central Europe are beginning to fret about their vulnerability to nuclear blackmail by Russia under Vladimir Putin.
With China's meddling and MSCI's capitulation though, one has to wonder how much is blackmail, and how much is financial science.
Trump's remark comes a day after he argued that Clinton's private server left her vulnerable to blackmail if she were president.
Countries could be looking for blackmail material, for instance, or seeking to understand Canadian politicians internal discussions around hot-button issues.
After she broke up with him, Sikri reportedly used her nude photos as blackmail and repeatedly raped her for 18 months.
To the contrary, Trump's U.S. energy policies allow the U.S. to offer Europe LNG to offset potential Russian political/energy blackmail.
Officials have reportedly identified the woman in the alleged footage, and believe she or someone else attempted to blackmail the star.
He said the Trump administration was using the treaty in an attempt to blackmail the Kremlin, putting global security at risk.
Clary said her parents encouraged her to make "sexual videos" with Kelly when she was 17 so they could blackmail him.
Reynolds' husband was aware of his wife's infidelity throughout the relationship, but chose to keep quiet and collect the blackmail money.
It would be "extremely embarrassing for China to step up imports from the U.S. under the threat of blackmail," they wrote.
What if she wants to use that knowledge to blackmail Madeline into revealing her past cheating to Ed — or much worse?
Later, Berchtold's wife allegedly used this information to blackmail them into signing documents stating Broberg hadn't been taken against her will.
"There's always been a concern about his exposure to blackmail in his financial dealings," says the person briefed on the investigation.
In statements issued after the report, Greitens admitted to the affair while Greitens' attorney stated that the blackmail claim was false.
So Chuck's dad has been having Bryan followed and sends Chuck a USB with video of Dake trying to blackmail Bryan.
As a young lawyer in my home country of Venezuela, I encountered police and military intelligence agency blackmail all the time.
And people should also be aware of sextortion, where a partner demands more pictures by using the previous ones as blackmail.
Like they could blackmail you or accuse you of being fake or not willing to say this under your real name.
Official Chinese media respond by accusing Trump of starring in his own "street fighter-style deceitful drama of extortion and blackmail".
Seth uses a sex tape involving one Congressman's female staffer, Bridget, as blackmail material, but he's got an even better offer.
The president has a personal, and perhaps financial, debt to unknown parties who are protecting him from scandal and possibly blackmail.
Blackmail also seems the best explanation for why Trump has yet to tell his fellow Americans what happened in that encounter.
Even so, a majority of Americans now suspect the answer to the puzzle of Trump's relationship with Russia is simple: blackmail.
They imagine the "worst-case scenario," in which deepfakes prove ineradicable and are used for electioneering, blackmail, and other nefarious purposes.
Atkinson determined that in addition to potentially violating campaign finance laws, Trump's conduct could also open him up to foreign blackmail.
In February, Bezos accused the Enquirer and AMI of attempting to blackmail him over the messages prior to publishing the story.
"So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be president of the United States," he continued.
The phony counseling service could have created an opportunity to blackmail or manipulate individuals who availed of it, the report notes.
Among his attacks: Trump alleged that Clinton's emails were likely hacked and that foreign governments would be able to blackmail her.
Why not see to it she's elected and then blackmail her every day and get what you want out of her?
Instead, he buys a cheap phone and uses it to blackmail his wife's boyfriend, Ranjit, for a hundred thousand rupees ($1,540).
The White House did not dismiss Flynn until 18 days after Yates warned that he may be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
There's a small chance that Martin Shkreli did this so that he can blackmail people into murdering small children or something.
It happened in very incremental stages, with more and more commitment and more on the line, and more coercion and blackmail.
Tactics include withholding food, water, or medicine; sleep deprivation; total isolation; extortion or blackmail; murder of pets; physical violence; and rape.
Greitens is accused of taking nonconsensual photos of a woman during a sexual encounter and threatening to blackmail her with them.
At one point, Josiffe made the mistake of sending a blackmail letter to Thorpe's formidable mother, threatening to expose their relationship.
Is this an elaborate scheme to blackmail the world's wealthiest and most powerful when their darkest desires are given free rein?
The plot slips into gear when the tabloid editor tries to blackmail the mining magnate with explicit photographs from an orgy.
Instead, he tries to blackmail his father for college tuition, and ingratiates himself in Frank's second home using a fake identity.
Mr. Raniere set up a harem of sexual "slaves" who were branded with his initials and kept in line by blackmail.
"Why did he not report to the Supreme Court supervisory judge about threats, bribes and blackmail?" she said in messaged comments.
I'm amazed at the extent to which one sees things like blackmail and extortion being used as business tactics within Russia.
"The Islamic Republic can negotiate with America whenever it achieves the power to resist America's pressure and blackmail," the ayatollah said.
In fact, Harris is actively against it: "I don't want people to be using the program to blackmail someone," he says.
Greece and Cyprus push a tough line, focusing on border tensions and condemning what the bloc sees as Erdogan's migration "blackmail".
Senior officials on both sides have leveled accusations ranging from blackmail and hostage-taking to using Nazi tactics and abetting terrorism.
Forensics experts are said to have begun looking at Bezos' phone after he accused the National Enquirer of blackmail last year.
Krasinski went on to solicit the help of some of his pal Hugh Jackman, while also jokingly threatening to blackmail him.
Terrible classmate Bret (Sean Depner) filmed Jughead and Betty hooking up in their dorm room as a way to blackmail him.
She added that she was making the admission under the threat of blackmail and chose to tell her fans herself instead.
The possibility of Russian blackmail against Trump was suggested in the famous Steele memo, written by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Was anyone in the White House concerned that, given what the FBI had turned up, Porter might be susceptible to blackmail?
It runs from tracking kids to tracking the nation's top security officials and using the intelligence for some kind of blackmail.
It also released 18 hours of previously unheard OK Computer studio sessions last year, following a blackmail threat by a hacker.
The partner who works might be "holding that over [the other partner's] head," or even engage in financial blackmail, Sussman said.
And phone hacking could expose their personal finances, relationships or any sexting in a way that makes them susceptible to blackmail.
The attacks amounted to an audacious global blackmail attempt spread by the internet and underscored the vulnerabilities of the digital age.
"Free shipping forced on us by blackmail is the lowest Etsy has gone to so far!" wrote one seller in July.
Will your funeral be a sequel to the film Death at a Funeral, where blackmail is delivered instead of peace lilies?
Eric Greitens was indicted on Thursday amid allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail after he admitted last month to an affair.
"Our adversaries almost certainly have a blackmail file on Hillary Clinton, and this fact alone disqualifies her from service," he said.
Eric Greitens was indicted Thursday amid looming allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail following an admission of an affair last month.
He also said that some of the supposed videos appeared to have been edited and cataloged for the purpose of blackmail.
A 22-year-old would-be hacker from London has been sentenced after trying unsuccessfully to blackmail Apple out of $100,000.
North Korean agents have tried to blackmail defectors in the South, using their relatives in the North as hostages, they said.
The bottom line: Submitting to militarized oil blackmail by Iran is in no one's long-term interests, either economically or geopolitically.
Venezuela's opposition leaders say the government has been working for months to fracture Mr. Guaidó's coalition using bribes, blackmail and persecution.
Now, in a matter of hours a "bad actor" can steal corporate secrets or use ransomware to blackmail thousands of people.
Greitens, a Republican, has denied the blackmail charges, but admitted back in January to having an affair during that time period.
One Seventh Avenue designer even told The Philadelphia Inquirer that a light sprinkling of blackmail was involved to back the trend.
How naïve do you have to be to blackmail a ruthless corporate militia that just genocided a potentially sentient new species?
It is, however, probably fair to say that her tweet was an allusion to the broader sexual blackmail allegations around Graham rather than just a claim that he has leadership aspirations — although, to be technical about it, the current version of the blackmail theory is that he's being blackmailed not for being gay but for some unknown sexual kink.
I am not so pressed for crew that I cannot afford to lose one who defies my authority and resorts to blackmail.
Bill Kintner, who admitted last year to having cybersex on a state computer with a woman who later tried to blackmail him.
Russian intelligence officers lure unsuspecting targets into compromising themselves, then document or record the act to blackmail targets at a later date.
Flynn -- who we now have learned was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail -- was Trump's pick to be this country's national security adviser.
"I'm unaware of anything that says blackmail is not a crime if the thing you're blackmailing people about is true," he said.
The New York prosecutors have separately accused Avenatti of trying to blackmail athletic wear maker Nike Inc for more than $20 million.
The dossier claimed that Russian authorities had obtained "embarrassing" footage of Trump's "perverted sexual acts" in Russia in order to blackmail him.
Taylor's husband is a mediocre artist with an ugly superiority complex; her brother is an erratic narcissist with a penchant for blackmail.
Farrow tweeted yesterday that AMI had sent "similar 'stop digging or we'll ruin you' blackmail efforts" to him and another prominent journalist.
We already knew Westworld and its five sister parks were massive data mines, collecting guests' DNA and gathering potential pieces of blackmail.
The Chicago indictment also accused Kelly of using physical abuse, violence and blackmail to "prevent victims from providing evidence to law enforcement."
Kushner sought to counter that move by hiring a prostitute to seduce Schulder so he could then blackmail him into withdrawing cooperation.
Russian agents filmed these acts, according to Steele's sources, and are wielding them to blackmail Trump into taking pro-Russian policy positions.
He spent his last appearances of the season making sure he had information to blackmail Ali in case she turned on him.
Netanyahu used the story about the hack to attack Gantz and claim that the Iranians could blackmail him if he were elected.
It will take time for investigators to untangle precisely who did what and why, and whether blackmail or other crimes were committed.
The president's top security advisor was vulnerable to blackmail—an issue that ultimately convinced Yates of the White House's need-to-know.
Personal embarrassment and blackmail are just two of the potential problems that could arise from this info falling into the wrong hands.
"Meanwhile, unmanned BPI could allow us all to rest easier—and deprive Kim Jong Un of his chief tool for international blackmail."
"He was using his office to basically blackmail and strong-arm individuals into not disclosing any of his extramarital affairs," Henry said.
In case you missed it, Jeff Bezos called the National Enquirer's bluff by posting their attempts to blackmail him on the internet.
But the possibility of bribery and blackmail here makes it impossible to fully separate out highbrow and lowbrow aspects of the scandal.
It has "the very real potential of subjecting perfectly innocent contractors to blackmail and extortion tactics during union contract negotiations," he added.
Russia could offer discounts to those facing high prices, but in exchange for other things, which would be "geopolitical blackmail," he said.
He even tried to blackmail her with images that he had of her—and she couldn't find a single lawyer to help.
China vowed to retaliate with higher tariffs of its own, with a Foreign Ministry spokesman saying U.S. efforts at "blackmail" would fail.
"Our opponents continue to pursue a policy of blackmail aimed solely at destroying the value of Sistema," a spokesman for Sistema said.
The reality of this blackmail accounts for the general acceptance of the illusion at the heart of the consumption of modern commodities.
These weapons could be used to blackmail other countries at best and extract revenge during a time of regime collapse at worst.
Since then, some Ashley Madison customers have faced blackmail threats, and Avid Life Media has been hit with multiple class action lawsuits.
In the bombshell report, a woman alleged that the married Republican governor threatened her with blackmail following a sexual encounter in 2015.
As a result, Putin and his security services have access to information that could put them in a position to blackmail Trump.
The US should not signal to other rogue regimes that nuclear blackmail is the best way to extract major concessions from us.
In Hamilton's rebuttal, he sheepishly admitted ("this confession is not made without a blush") that the blackmail was of a personal nature.
The moves mark a complete change of tone in Warsaw after two years of PiS vowing not to yield to EU "blackmail".
It said "nuclear threat and blackmail" would only prompt it to make "drastic progress in bolstering nuclear attack capabilities," state media said.
It was unclear on Thursday whether, or how, the hackers had exploited the stolen data, other than in their effort at blackmail.
The software was used to steal passwords and banking data and could be used for fraud and to blackmail individuals, prosecutors said.
His case is laden with indications, some more obvious than others, that he engaged, or attempted to engage, in high-stakes blackmail.
A top Russian official said Sunday that U.S. plans to withdraw from the agreement amount to blackmail, calling it a "dangerous" step.
Dana might not have responded to the blackmail, but she knows that in 1976, both Alice and Rufus are her late ancestors.
If Sally Yates told the White House last month that Michael Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail, why was he just now fired?
The White House vowed not to "yield to blackmail" by handing over Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the deposed shah, and imposed economic sanctions.
Sometimes they're amorous, like those allegedly exchanged between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez and then obtained by the National Enquirer as blackmail.
Will it engage in nuclear blackmail, sell weapons to terrorists or other rogue regimes, or try to unify the peninsula by force?
"This is not talks, not a dialogue, it's just an ultimatum, blackmail of the state, of the legitimate authorities," Mr. Sarksyan said.
Asked to comment on the prizes, Falcon's Avanzada Progresista party said they were another example of the government's "blackmail operation" against voters.
Hawkins sought $10 million in damages, but Kelly countersued, claiming that Hawkins was attempting to blackmail him with a false paternity claim.
Some of these theories are more credible than others; there is some evidence, for instance, that Epstein intended to blackmail his associates.
Mr. Flynn lied to the F.B.I. about those discussions, and intelligence officials worried that his lies made him susceptible to Russian blackmail.
She seems to have framed this as a warning that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail that could expose his lie.
Ms. Mack admitted on Monday that she wielded the information to blackmail the women into performing services for her and the group.
At the same time, he's hired to solve a case of blackmail for a (puppet) femme fatale, who's also a raging nymphomaniac.
Editors at The Age, which is owned by Fairfax Media, counter that the Ahsanis never mentioned blackmail when contacted with prepublication questions.
A little blackmail, a well-placed item about the lawyer's mistress on Page Six, and boom, Wags's eternal resting place is secured.
The NOC also cited "some parties' offering money to some militias, which encourages others to follow blockade tactics to blackmail the state".
But who needs blackmail when Mr. Trump has genuine affection for strongmen like Mr. Putin (see also: Egypt, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia).
U.S. intelligence officials overwhelmingly agreed early this year that Michael Flynn, the national security adviser at the time, was vulnerable to blackmail.
Many women reported threats of physical violence and vandalism, blackmail, sexual remarks and false accusations meant to humiliate, threaten or discredit them.
This is the same administration that waited 18 long days to fire a national security adviser profoundly vulnerable to Russian blackmail. Why?
Scroll down for a timeline on the Bezos hack, the Enquirer&aposs alleged blackmail, and their relationship to the Saudi Crown Prince.
He published a post on Medium, the online publishing platform, accusing The National Enquirer's parent company, American Media, of blackmail and extortion.
Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates feared that Michael Flynn was possibly vulnerable to Russian blackmail attempts, the Washington Post said Monday.
But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated at a regular news briefing that the United States' efforts at "blackmail" would fail.
He has a priest break the seal of confession to share his cardinals' secrets, the better to blackmail and rule by fear.
Officers are selected by the U.S. after a background investigation to ensure that the trainees are not corrupt or vulnerable to blackmail.
Jacobus now believes this was designed to induce her to confide personal information to Lancaster that could be used to blackmail her.
We tell the idiot Trump that President Mahmoud Abbas will never submit to U.S. pressure, to blackmail or to U.S.-Zionist threats.
Using a tool stolen from the United States government, hackers conducted attacks that aimed to blackmail computer users by seizing their data.
Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general, told lawmakers on Monday that she had warned that Mr. Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail.
Moscow has denied any role in the attack on the Skripals and has accused the U.S. of orchestrating a "colossal blackmail" campaign.
The simple solution to insurance company blackmail is to have Medicare operate as an option in every insurance market in the country.
Greitens was elected in 2016 and was seen as a rising star in the Republican Party prior to the allegations of blackmail.
Eric Greitens was indicted on Thursday amid looming allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail following an admission of an affair last month.
It must be a priority to ensure that Russia cannot use natural gas as a means of blackmail and domination over Europe.
But the release of such material can also be a badge of honor, indicating that the target did not succumb to blackmail.
The alleged blackmail: This week, according to emails published by Mr. Bezos, a lawyer for The Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc.
The lawless innkeeping couple who set out to blackmail the remorseful hero, Jean Valjean, are treated by Hugo with the utmost seriousness.
In other cases, scammers are making use of discreet hidden cameras to spy on people, using the footage for fraud or blackmail.
Bernie Sanders writes in a Washington Post op-ed, is that Trump has arguably laid out a blueprint for large-scale blackmail.
"Hungary shall not bow to blackmail," said Orban, whose right-wing Fidesz party was re-elected with a landslide majority last April.
From the perspective of the intelligence community, the fundamental question is: Are you susceptible to blackmail from a foreign entity or individual?
Gamby and Russell, having finally pushed Brown out of her job, thanks to a bit of blackmail, ascend to interim co-principals.
Correa in 2007 expelled the World Bank mission from the country, accusing it of seeking "blackmail" after it suspended a $100 million loan.
You will never blackmail me, because I'll just tell you about me, so if you ask me if I had an abortion, absolutely.
Republicans call it a "blackmail" rule because they think labor unions could use the threat of public disclosure to win concessions from employers.
Meanwhile, Berchtold was up on kidnapping charges, and Berchtold's wife, Gail, used the affair information to blackmail the Brobergs into lessening the chargers.
A 'The Fappening' type dump is the worst case scenario, side by side with blackmail after tying nude photos to the prior leak.
Several people were arrested in the wake of the hack, including Daniel Kelley, 19, who recently admitted trying to blackmail TalkTalk as well.
Trip Advisor has a no blackmail policy for reviews and if you inform them in advance, they say they will not post them.
Oktar and his followers are accused of forming a criminal gang, fraud, kidnapping, money laundering, exploitation of religious sentiments, blackmail and sexual abuse.
Why do we think it's acceptable to sell, or publish, or seek revenge, or blackmail women in this way and without their consent?
Reports surfaced over the weekend that federal officials are investigating an alleged blackmail attempt that reportedly includes a "sexually provocative" video of Hart.
Another senior diplomat said agreeing to a third candidate to appease Poland, or delaying the decision beyond Thursday would be succumbing to blackmail.
A handful of the complaints involve outright blackmail—often after a woman has sent risque photos to a man she believes is trustworthy.
"Jeff's willingness to put it all out there shows he is not blackmail-able…this guy's a total badass, you can't get him."
Mariah Carey is suing her former assistant, alleging that the woman secretly recorded her and attempted to blackmail her with the private videos.
Smash Kalinda is working as a private investigator in England, where she is drawn into a scandal involving blackmail of the royal family.
It also denounced the local government minister in charge of the regulation, Damià Calvet, accusing him of caving in to taxi industry "blackmail".
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday accused the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition of employing blackmail by suspending its participation in peace talks in Geneva.
Reports surfaced over the weekend that federal officials are investigating an alleged blackmail attempt that allegedly includes a "sexually provocative" video of Hart.
Following the blackmail allegation, Gardner announced her office's probe, but did not offer details as to what actions by Greitens would be investigated.
The producers of India's most successful film of all time were also the victims of blackmail, and six suspects were arrested this week.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated at a regular news briefing in Beijing that the United States' efforts at "blackmail" would fail.
Seacrest has adamantly denied Hardy's allegations and accused Hardy of attempting to blackmail him, and his team has disputed Hardy's timeline of events.
We have reached a point where players have to use emotional blackmail just to get referees to call a two-minute holding penalty.
Still, "House of Cards" has always operated on the fringes of absurdity, where murder and blackmail are among the Underwoods' tools of persuasion.
When her student/sex-partner does get sent to Moscow, the center will want her back there too, in order to blackmail him.
Serbian forces had also kidnapped 30 Dutch peacekeepers, a blunt instrument of blackmail and leverage over the Dutch peacekeeping force guarding the enclave.
The sexual blackmail of women as a requirement to appease powerful men should be a more burning societal issue than any Congressional divide.
Trump's White House counsel was told by then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates last month that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
Individuals caught betraying their country in this way often are escorted to their treasonous path as a consequence of blackmail, bribery or both.
By attaining a nuclear capable intercontinental nuclear weapon, Kim hopes to blackmail the US into reducing its military presence on the Korean Peninsula.
Peter and Sam quickly find themselves in over their heads, in a dark cycle of blackmail, catfishing, revenge porn, and other webby terrors.
"I will cooperate with any of the investigations into the blackmail allegations against AMI and the hacking allegations against the Saudis," he said.
One investigation is looking into allegations that he photographed a woman during a sexual encounter without her consent and threatened to blackmail her.
One of the allegations was that the FSB, the successor to the KGB, had compromising materials that could be used to blackmail Trump.
In addition to the blackmail allegations, Greiteins is accused of improperly obtaining a donor list from a charity and then lying about it.
Eves, a Democrat from North Berwick, has said that the governor's actions constituted blackmail, and he's suing the governor in U.S. District Court.
Or would they have simply allowed a known liar, one potentially at risk of Russian blackmail, to stay in such a sensitive position?
" One possible shot to drop ... Russian blackmail or threats targeting Americans who took things of value: "That's a traditional element of Russian tradecraft.
That was followed by a report in China's state media saying Friday's retaliatory tariffs were "rational" while accusing the United States of blackmail.
All the while, the regime has pursued nuclear weapons with the deluded hope that it could blackmail its way to the ultimate objective.
And many fear that would mean giving the North the ultimate blackmail tool — and a way to keep the United States at bay.
Mr. Greitens was accused of threatening to blackmail his mistress with a photo of her partially clothed if she ever revealed their affair.
"Your emails and message from today seem to be an apparent attempt at possible blackmail or extortion," Mr. Whitaker wrote in August 0003.
Mr. Nadler accused Mr. Barr of "trying to blackmail the committee" over its format as part of the administration's "complete stonewalling" of Congress.
On the tape, K.S. tearfully admitted the affair and told her then-husband that Mr. Greitens had photographed and threatened to blackmail her.
The petitioners pointed to Section 377's long history as a cover for blackmail, harassment and sexual assault against gay and transgender Indians.
It's no surprise that speculation has been feverish that he must be guilty of collusion or even of opening himself up to blackmail.
The Russian government has denied any involvement in the attacks, and has blamed the U.S. for running a "colossal blackmail" campaign against Moscow.
A Swedish police officer posted on Facebook about what he sees today: rape, assault, violence against police officers, blackmail and taking over neighborhoods.
It's like inviting foreign intelligence into the White House -- Porter was a major blackmail risk because he allegedly held secrets of domestic abuse.
Zelensky said last week there was "no blackmail" during a phone call and that he and Trump did not discuss the military aid.
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In a blockbuster blog post titled "No thank you, Mr. Pecker," Bezos on Thursday evening accused Pecker of an "extortion and blackmail" attempt.
The Russian government has denied any role in the poisonings and has blamed the diplomatic expulsions on a "colossal blackmail" campaign by Washington.
The blackmail risk envisioned by the Justice Department would have stemmed directly from Mr. Flynn's attempt to cover his tracks with his bosses.
Another fallacy often put forward: if we don't hurry, Kim will threaten America with nuclear blackmail and reunite the peninsula under his command.
Andrew Bacevich, a military historian, has argued that, Kim is indeed "engaged in a huge game of blackmail," but not as McMaster describes.
He accused Tomic of unspecified threats and "blackmail" against him and his family, essentially giving up any hope of working with Tomic again.
The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were investigating Mr. Bezos' claim that The National Enquirer sought to extort or blackmail him.
Even if Symonds did not write under the threat of execution, there was still, at the time, the risk of blackmail, imprisonment, disgrace.
Kate eventually filed a report with the police, who didn't blame her, saying she had been victimized by blackmail and was also underage.
China's Commerce Ministry called the U.S. president's threat blackmail and said Beijing is prepared to "defend the interests of the Chinese people and enterprises."
Need further proof that the technology is watching your every move in order to know its enemy before taking over the world via blackmail?
I have some trouble accepting that this mild blackmail is all it would take to convince Felix and Sylvester to tamper with Maeve's code.
Its former CEO, Alexander Nix, and other employees were caught bragging about unethical or illegal campaign tactics like blackmail in a Channel 4 investigation.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owner of U.S. tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer pushed back on Friday against accusations of "extortion and blackmail" from Amazon.
Our reactions legitimized it as blackmail, proving that we arbitrarily draw the line at what is and isn't okay when it comes to sex.
This is all material that a government informant could use, either to get close to a target or to publicly embarrass or blackmail them.
As has often been noted, presidents were cautious about dismissing a man who knew so much about everybody and might not be above blackmail.
NIKE SCHEME The New York prosecutors have separately accused Avenatti of trying to blackmail athletic wear maker Nike Inc for more than $20 million.
After initially claiming that he himself had been hacked, Qaiser eventually plead guilty to 11 charges including blackmail, fraud, money laundering, and computer misuse.
However, notably, they are not ready to pass judgment on whether this development means the Russian government actually does have blackmail on the president.
In Ukraine Russia has blended force, misinformation, infiltration, cyberwar and economic blackmail in ways that democratic societies cannot copy and find hard to rebuff.
I would highlight the contrast between Brennan&aposs tweets and his unfounded allegations about the president, speculation that Vladimir Putin could blackmail President Trump.
In order to secure Jerhonda's silence, she says that Kelly made her draft a letter that claimed her parents were attempting to blackmail him.
The company, which owns the National Enquirer, among other media businesses, was accused of blackmail in an explosive essay that Bezos published on Thursday.
There may be many cases of successful digital blackmail of powerful figures, including in the tech industry, that the public might never learn about.
A successful blackmail of Mr Bezos in a decade, when, say, Amazon's Alexa-controlled devices are widespread, would give the blackmailer a powerful platform.
Earlier Thursday, the North Korean regime acknowledged the flyover and said it was done to "threaten and blackmail" the government, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Eric Greitens has been subpoenaed by a St. Louis grand jury investigating claims that he tried to blackmail her, according to the man's attorney.
Netflix's brand new soap Elite – with its murder, teen pregnancy, blackmail, cover-ups, and more – is a delicious mix of perfect pop cultural influences.
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"I actually don't think that they should have images of them as children that somebody could potentially blackmail with or do whatever," he said.
He said a salacious allegation that Mr. Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow had left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government.
A Human Rights Watch report earlier this year noted that "police use blackmail and extortion against gay men, threatening to out or imprison them".
That creates uncertainty about how sensitive or embarrassing the scraped data is, and whether it could possibly be used to blackmail and stalk them.
The slaves were required to submit "collateral," such as nude photos, that Raniere then used as blackmail to coerce their compliance, according to authorities.
North Korea must be convinced that it cannot degrade allied posture by acting out and that it cannot cover conventional aggression with nuclear blackmail.
Many believe that rural journalists like Sa and Taing are little more than extortionists, using their journalistic credentials as an excuse to blackmail loggers.
Section 20173 was inconsistently enforced, but police and others sometimes weaponized the law to harass, blackmail, or extort transgender or gay people — especially men.
Dubai police have arrested foreign hackers who targeted five senior White House officials in a blackmail email scam, state-owned media reported on Monday.
Police violence and harassment, including unlawful arrest, blackmail, and gang rape, is "a pervasive theme" in the lives of sex workers, says the research.
Along with their brother Bill, they allegedly tried in the 1960s to blackmail a fourth sibling, Frederick, to sell his shares in the company.
It was Petrov who orchestrated the leaks, and now he's using the hacker to basically blackmail Claire into letting Russia explore oil in Antarctica.
When that failed, someone leaked the details of his conversations with the Russian ambassador, and of the Justice Department's blackmail concerns, to the press.
And while he warned that, "America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail," he did not mention the Americans being held in Iran.
You wonder if their rapport might be a furtive sexual pact, perhaps with an edge of blackmail, whereupon Steven invites Martin to his house.
All have failed, according to the experts, creating fresh opportunities for men to use 'asset violence' and blackmail to control both wife and land.
Although the law banning homosexuality is rarely enforced in India, it is used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from homosexuals, activists say.
Yates testified that she had warned the White House that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was at risk of blackmail by the Russians.
When asked about rumors that he could put at stake his title, Valls said: "I never did and I will not blackmail to resign".
Tehran is now seeking to blackmail the world by threatening to further violate the agreement that it never took seriously in the first place.
Clinton was probably the victim of blackmail from Chinese hackers who gained access to her email account while she was the secretary of state.
Again, we don't seem to be in the future, and I'm getting very strong surveillance / cryptolocker / hacking / blackmail vibes from this episode so far.
"It's blackmail," Hector Navarro, one of the founders of the ruling Socialist Party and a former minister under Chavez, said of the fatherland program.
Some of those details will get leaked to the alt-right news media and talk radio, and others will be used for blackmail purposes.
The news of the extramarital affair and allegations of blackmail came on the same night that Greitens delivered the State of the State speech.
For those who missed it ... Kenya accused Marlo of being a "trick" and taking $20k from a man named John to blackmail NeNe Leakes.
And the tabloids ran stories suggesting she was selling her story for $100,000 and had tried to use the groping allegation to blackmail him.
Mr. Epstein was assaulted and was the target of blackmail before he died in 1967 from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol.
Bad actors could have used the exposed data to tie users to their personal posts, potentially opening them to blackmail or harassment, researchers say.
Grafton is on safer ground with Kinsey's blackmail assignment, which involves some tricky detective work and features the usual cast of wonderful secondary characters.
Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said in a statement that the warning amounted to an Iranian attempt at blackmail.
In practice, he says, they were often exploited via blackmail scams, or used to persecute black men involved in consensual relationships with white women.
Newsbook The fear of a massive cyber attack became fact on May 12, when over 200,000 computers were hacked in a global blackmail attempt.
In a February 2019 blog post, Bezos hinted that he suspected Saudi involvement in the Enquirer&aposs sourcing, and accused the tabloid of blackmail.
Ukraine's president said Thursday there was no blackmail during the July phone call with Trump that's since set in motion the House Democratic inquiry.
These involve financial ties with Moscow, since Trump refuses to release his tax statements, or the kind of sordid blackmail alleged in the dossier.
And they have raised the possibility that Mr. Kim's real motive is blackmail, according to officials familiar with Situation Room discussions about the North.
All people were saying was that he was susceptible to blackmail because of his lack of veracity in a conversation with the vice president.
The president's national security adviser, she said, had lied to the vice president about his Russian contacts and was vulnerable to blackmail by Moscow.
They also can lead to other more valuable targets or carry embarrassing personal details that can be used for blackmail or to recruit spies.
Amazon founder/world's richest person Jeff Bezos claimed in a blog post that AMI, the publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to blackmail him.
The villain of the season's blackmail subplot seems to have been cooked up in that same lab: a creative millennial desperate to be liked.
Moscow has vowed retaliation for the diplomatic expulsions, which it has blamed on a "colossal blackmail" campaign by the U.S. View the discussion thread.
One of the most mind-bending elements of the NXIVM case is the coercion and misdirection that led women to hand over blackmail material.
Her ex-boyfriend, Choi Jong-bum, was found guilty of assault and blackmail after he threatened to leak a video of them having sex.
"Blackmail is implicit in this approach, and it's dangerous," said Tyler Cowen, a conservative free market-oriented economist who teaches at George Mason University.
Eric Greitens acknowledges he had an extramarital affair with an unidentified woman but denies a claim that he tried to blackmail her into silence.
The regime is also engaging in nuclear blackmail, enriching more uranium and installing new centrifuges, and threatening once again to advance its nuclear program.
Wouldn't President Vladimir V. Putin then have had blackmail material that could have been used against Mr. Trump as long as his presidency lasted?
If a hostile government possesses a recording or is aware of the details of Trump's phone call, they could use it to blackmail Trump.
"It's blackmail, that's really what it is," said Mark Borghi, the owner of Mark Borghi Fine Art, who was sued in the "M" batch.
The general concern is that if the information in the dossier is true, it could make Trump susceptible to blackmail by a foreign power.
The Chinese government has likely taken a significant interest in that data, which could be useful in targeting dissidents at home and for blackmail abroad.
Section 377, which dates back to 1861, has rarely been enforced, but it has been used to harass and blackmail gays, lesbians and transgender people.
"I don't think they should have images of them that are out there as children that somebody could potentially blackmail or do whatever," he continues.
This blackmail causes Simon to slowly erode various foundations of his friendships with Abby, Leah (Katherine Langford), and stereotypical funny jock Nick (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.).
Jeremy Kerr pleaded guilty to two counts of blackmail after sending threatening letters to New Zealand's national farmers' group and dairy giant Fonterra in 2014.
Although the law banning homosexuality is rarely enforced in India, it is used to intimidate, harass, blackmail and extort money from gay people, activists say.
Are you aware of anything that would lead you to believe could information exist that could coerce members of the administration or blackmail the administration?
The other is that the Russian blackmail theory is composed of two sub-elements, both of which are clearly true based on publicly available information.
But also, isn't this exactly the sort of emotional blackmail your mother would send after you've told her you're not in rush to have kids?
Total:  11.5 Season 3, episode 3 Several individuals find themselves on the receiving end of catastrophic blackmail unless they follow instructions from an anonymous source.
Nixon said he didn't think the FBI director would resort to blackmail, but nevertheless deemed it prudent to keep the 21970-year-old in office.
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Two young women living with alleged sexual abuser R. Kelly say they love him and have accused their parents of trying to blackmail the singer.
But the two women are now hitting back at their parents, and accusing them of lying about the alleged abuse in order to blackmail Kelly.
Nearly half of 100 publishers surveyed by SembraMedia said members of their staff had suffered threats or blackmail, and more than half had lost advertising.
We now have real evidence that the FBI uncovered a Russian plot dating back to 2009 that involved bribery, extortion, blackmail, money laundering and racketeering.
Noel spent the next few episodes harassing Aria and Fitz by leaving them threatening messages and trying to blackmail Mr. Fitz into a higher grade.
German newpaper Bild am Sonntag, which was first to report on the letter, said that Grenell was trying to blackmail German companies with the letter.
Stan Bowman continued to use the blackmail he has on other GMs around the league to make them give him helpful players for nearly nothing.
Once he tricked people (mostly college-aged women) into giving him their personal information, he'd try to blackmail them into sending him sexually explicit pictures.
While mutual masturbation over a video chat holds its own risks, like catfishing or blackmail, there's little chance of any physical danger in these meetups.
"The only thing that could be considered blackmail in this situation would be the Kremlin having leverage over future gas supplies," the embassy spokesman said.
Now, we even have real evidence that the FBI uncovered a Russian plot that involved -- we have real evidence -- bribery, extortion, blackmail, money laundering, racketeering.
The U.S.' constant "nuclear threat and blackmail" in the past decades was "an engine which pushed the (North Korea) to reach this point, " it said.
Those comments detailed the firm's use of bribery, blackmail, and other unsavory techniques to compromise politicians and impact geopolitical situations on behalf of its clients.
When Jeff Bezos went public with his accusations of blackmail against the National Enquirer on Thursday, he was hailed by many online for his courage.
"The other parties will try a permanent blackmail, vote by vote, measure by measure," Sergiu Miscoiu, a political science professor at Babes-Bolyai University, said.
Sistema has rejected Rosneft's demands as groundless, saying state-controlled Rosneft was pursuing a policy of blackmail which was aimed at destroying the company's value.
Sextortion is a form of sexual blackmail, in which someone threatens to post sexually explicit photos of another persona online if sexual favors aren't performed.
The judge, who said the PML-N had also attempted to blackmail him, has since been sacked from the court that decided the Nawaz case.
Manafort denies the earlier reports about the $12.7 million, denies Leshchenko's new claim, and contends that Leshchenko is involved in a blackmail scheme against him.
He also stands accused of drawing supporters down a path of destruction that includes near-starvation diets, sexual assault, forced branding, pseudo-slavery and blackmail.
If that happened, I could extort or blackmail them, and they would have to go to an ATM and give me a lot of money.
Reports surfaced over the weekend that federal officials are investigating an alleged blackmail attempt that reportedly includes a "sexually provocative" video of Hart with Sabbag.
The first rumor was standard Russia conspiracy theory nonsense: Chaffetz was resigning because Russia had compromising information about him and was using it as blackmail!
It was clear from the story that the male escort had gone to Gawker after attempting to blackmail the executive into giving him a favour.
And Clinton did it in the very locus of American prestige and power, opening himself and the United States to the possibility of serious blackmail.
The Chechens kidnap Fuches and blackmail Barry into doing their dirty work, all while he is getting more and more invested in his acting tribe.
Blackmail also might explain why Trump threatened former U.S. intelligence officials with loss of their security clearances for being critical of his dealings with Russia.
The Russians obviously knew that Flynn had lied, and that left the president's top national security aide exposed to blackmail by a hostile foreign power.
North Korea promised on Saturday to continue preparing "pre-emptive attacks with nuclear force" in the face of U.S. "blackmail," according to The Associated Press.
He fired former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she warned the White House that Flynn's lying had subjected him to potential blackmail by Russia.
Steele "took the information he found credible" about Trump and Russia's attempts in 103 to support the candidate and potentially blackmail him, the judge wrote.
Allegations emerged that the National Enquirer, who broke the story, engaged in "extortion and blackmail" by threatening to release Bezos' intimate personal texts and photos.
By caving in to Saudi Arabia's blackmail, Mr. Ban sends a message that other countries can use improper pressure to escape accountability for their abuses.
Federal prosecutors are reviewing the National Enquirer's conduct after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos accused the tabloid's parent company of "extortion and blackmail," Bloomberg News reported.
"No threat, blackmail or operation can discourage the will of Turkey," he wrote on his official Twitter account hours after Trump announced the additional tariffs.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sistema rejected the asset freeze demands as groundless, saying Rosneft was pursuing a policy of blackmail aimed at destroying the company's value.
Early in the story, while Will is off getting himself permanently compromised and ripe for blackmail in Argentina, Chloe begins pursuing her own furtive career.
On social media, Netanyahu pounded out alerts which included unproved accusations that Iran could blackmail Gantz after hacking his phone, although Tehran denied doing so.
It follows reports last night that Comey personally briefed Trump on the dossier alleging Russia was collecting financial and sexual blackmail on the president-elect.
"They can get you emotionally, they could get you financially, they could get photographs and blackmail you," Garrison said in an interview with VICE Impact.
Most recently he said Hillary Clinton was unfit to be president because foreign governments likely have a "blackmail file" on her from "hacking" her emails.
Frequently those are the situations that lead to what you were describing, where the pictures of them are passed around, or they're used as blackmail.
It reported that police believe the videos are used as blackmail, to prevent victims from reporting the crimes, or to pressure them into further acts.
The former campaign chairman was, at a minimum, vulnerable to Russian blackmail on account of his allegedly illicit business ties with a corrupt Ukrainian president.
The Steele dossier is a document that alleged Trump was under the influence of Russian intelligence services, who had also compiled blackmail material on him.
But when federal prosecutors start nosing into her four-year lacrosse scholarship, it will cost 10 times that amount to blackmail the long-retired coach.
While Bezos claims AMI's actions amount to "extortion and blackmail," legal experts are unsure if the case would meet the standard for a criminal charge.
And our reporter dug into a supposed mass defection of North Korean waitresses to South Korea and found a tale of lies, blackmail and betrayal.
Carter and Vinnie were childhood pals who became partners in crime —specifically, in a blackmail scam that unseated a racing commissioner named Simms (Mr. Judd).
Purchases of companies with sensitive information, like financial data or health records, have been turned down because of a perceived threat of espionage or blackmail.
In his statement on Tuesday, Mr. Seacrest accused Ms. Hardy of attempting to blackmail him by demanding "millions of dollars" in exchange for her silence.
North Korea tests a new long-range missile; Volvo announces it is moving toward all-electric vehicles; CNN gets caught up in allegations of blackmail.
A recent piece in the Washington Examiner about Never Trump dissatisfaction in the face of Sanders's ascension makes the terms of this emotional blackmail clear.
WASHINGTON — Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
Bezos made headlines a year ago when he refused to pay alleged blackmail to the National Enquirer over some dick pics the tabloid had acquired.
Gentry interviewed hundreds of people for the book, including former agents who were at first afraid to talk for fear of Hoover's infamous blackmail files.
She gives herself "makeup therapy" in the video, and discusses everything from her appearance on "The Ellen Show" to those who tried to blackmail her.
Eric Greitens, two US officials told CNN, as he fights an allegation of blackmail and faces calls to resign just a year into his job.
The Russian government has rebuffed the accusations that it was behind the poisonings and blamed the U.S. for organizing a "colossal blackmail" campaign against Moscow.
No conversation illustrates their kinship better than Mr. Trump's first appearance after Mr. Letterman, facing a blackmail threat, confessed to having affairs with staff members.
MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday accused the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition of employing blackmail by suspending its participation in peace talks in Geneva.
Bezos also alleged that the National Enquirer engaged in "extortion and blackmail" by threatening to release nude selfies Bezos had taken and sent to Sanchez.
"There's the danger that people leak what they have over him or blackmail him with it," a Cabinet minister in May's government told the paper.
"We will never accept that refugees are weaponized and used to blackmail us," European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, said on Twitter.
"We will never accept that refugees are weaponised and used to blackmail us," European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, said on Twitter.
In February, Bezos published an explosive blog post where he accused National Enquirer publisher AMI and its CEO, David Pecker, of attempting to blackmail him.
Asked if he viewed the tariff exemption as a form of economic blackmail, Trudeau demurred and said his country is also interested in reshaping NAFTA.
He then claimed the family of John Gotti had asked him to kill Mr. Cali and had threatened to blackmail him if he did not.
He said the government would finance the elections itself so as to avoid "blackmail" by foreign powers that have criticized repeated delays to the vote.
Since Pakistan has already turned to both those states for astronomical amounts of money, a threat of blackmail may be less imposing then it looks.
How did American intelligence officials come to brief President Obama, President-elect Donald J. Trump and lawmakers about supposed Russian plans to blackmail Mr. Trump?
"As any good IC employee knows, if you admit it, you're no longer subject to blackmail so I'll admit … I play a mean conga drum."
The discrepancy between what Mr. Flynn had said publicly and what the Russians (and American intelligence officials) knew made Mr. Flynn vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
On the contrary, given that nuclear blackmail has paid off for North Korea to this point, wouldn't its continuation, if not escalation, be only rational?
The Saudi crown prince is caught on a U.S. intercept, Jeff Bezos accuses a tabloid company of blackmail and France pulls its ambassador from Italy.
Concerning blackmail attempts specifically, he counseled confrontation, rather than appeasement — and it seems that Mr. Bezos followed the de Becker strategy with his blog post.
The girl in the video later told Information, a Danish newspaper, that one of the people responsible tried to use the recordings to blackmail her.
In a plot ripped from "Black Mirror," hackers in the UK hijacked people's laptop cameras to record them watching porn in order to blackmail them.
"I try to be a gentleman towards a lady, so I didn't even use or think about the use of the word blackmail," he said.
He continued to employ someone who he knew was lying to his vice president, and who was at risk for blackmail by a foreign government.
" The statement said that before any negotiations took place, Puigdemont had to "return to the path of law," as the government would not accept "blackmail.
" In an Instagram post shared over the weekend, Todd Chrisley revealed that his sister-in-law had a warrant for her arrest for "blackmail and extortion.
A high-profile Republican governor denied claims Wednesday that he tied up and blindfolded his hairdresser before taking a picture of her naked and threatening blackmail.
Kim Jong Il, whose regime was responsible for the first test and who died in 2011, had only a rudimentary nuclear device, useful mainly for blackmail.
Obviously he's having an affair, so Wags uses this info to blackmail him via Page Six, and ends the episode lying in his final resting place.
In 2009, Letterman revealed on The Late Show that someone had tried to blackmail him using information regarding his relationship with his personal assistant Stephanie Birkitt.
The exposed data included nude photos and pictures that revealed a user's location — potentially putting them at risk of blackmail or even arrest in some countries.
They were also pressured to regularly send "collateral" such as nude photos, financial information, or confessions to crimes that were used as blackmail for their loyalty.
Mr Guo hit back by accusing Caixin of blackmail and adding the outlandish claim that Ms Hu, 64, had a child with his former business partner.
Victims should perhaps prepare for receiving unsolicited emails too, and in particular ones that threaten users with blackmail, based on their information being linked to Fling.
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But besides blackmail, there are many other ways one can use kompromat, such as influencing a person's positions or politics with the help of embarrassing information.
The ploy of associating CNN with blackmail obvious: to discredit the network's reporting or at least push the narrative of a news agency embroiled in scandal.
The letter says "hyper-realistic digital forgeries" showing "convincing depictions of individuals doing or saying things they never did" could be used for blackmail and misinformation.
Brian Lowry, CNN Entertainment: House of Cards has always operated on the fringes of absurdity, where murder and blackmail are among the Underwoods' tools of persuasion.
"Dialogue cannot be used as blackmail or an oxygen tank to give more time to a government that each day has less time left," he said.
" The seemingly conditional statement about revealing the user's identity became a flashpoint, with prominent — and largely, but not exclusively, right-wing — accounts accusing CNN of "blackmail.
On one side stands an artist whose work is aimed against an authoritarian regime known for its use of entrapment and blackmail to neutralise its opponents.
The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Monday intensified Democratic interest in the documents, with one lawmaker warning about the potential danger of blackmail.
Kremlin military and intelligence thinkers have long discussed freedom of information "in weaponized terms, as a tool to confuse, blackmail, demoralize, subvert, and paralyze," Pomerantsev writes.
"You don't need to blackmail us, Power said, as we are indeed interested in operating in good faith," the cable says of Power's conversation with Liu.
They blackmail me about the emails I sent about whether or not to show my black and white 16mm film I shot at my sister's apartment.
In an analysis of its own customers, the company says as many as one-in-10 spear phishing attacks involve some form of sextortion or blackmail.
Rather, she's using him — whether it's for an equal share of blackmail money, or the opportunity to be the madam of her very own massage parlor.
Yates had warned the White House beforehand that Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail after he made the incorrect statements.
Poland's eurosceptic, nationalist government has rejected Brussels' objections as "blackmail" and as unjustified criticism, but has said Warsaw is open to talks to resolve the dispute.
The agents asked Flynn about the Kislyak calls, in part out of concern that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail over the content of the conversations.
Turns out, Boomer has been laundering cash for a local gang; he also shows up at Annie's apartment and tries to blackmail her into sexual favors.
With Young Hee in Season 4, Elizabeth experiences what feels like true friendship with another woman (before drugging that friend's husband to blackmail him for information).
Two phones survived the search — the one A.D. uses to communicate with and blackmail the Liars, and the one A.D. uses to control Aria (Lucy Hale).

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