Luckily, there are better solutions than shaking down young people.
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They were shaking down the owner in front of customers.
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Mr Assad is shaking down cronies to cover the bill.
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He doesn't get a gold star for not shaking down his constituents.
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He's shaking down the other wealthy Saudis to pay for his opulence.
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That is shaking down the charts whether anyone likes it or not.
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"They were shaking down guys who delivered paper products," Mr. McGuigan said.
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La cora involved shaking down merchants for a quarter-dollar at a time.
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"He does enough shaking down of those big donors," she said at another.
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And, indeed, the tactic of shaking down mayors appears to be expanding beyond Morelos.
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Several of the state's criminal players are experienced at shaking down the avocado industry.
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Your voice wasn't trembling when you was threatening schoolteachers and shaking down porn stars.
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Shaking down cities and sticking in the shiv is a patented move for the league.
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The travelers' apprehensions grew as Venezuelan soldiers, known for shaking down border crossers, searched their bags repeatedly.
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Desmond Bradley, some kid from my year, was shaking down little brother one day in the schoolyard.
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When there's nothing coming into your piehole, the body will start shaking down fat cells for energy.
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China is shaking down its super-rich for taxes and is zealous in its policing of capital outflows.
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There were always lower-tier dealers getting robbed and crooked bouncers shaking down kids for cash and drugs.
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He later investigates a crooked sports agent who is shaking down his clients in exchange for fixing their grades.
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Hundreds of police sergeants were suspected of shaking down businesses all over town, but only a dozen were convicted.
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He has made many enemies by sidelining fellow royals, shaking down businessmen, locking up liberals and alienating religious leaders.
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Being both a direct retailer and a platform for other sellers gives Amazon novel weapons for shaking down suppliers.
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For decades North Korea has been adept at shaking down outsiders: first the Soviet Union, sometimes America and now China.
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Avocado is an increasingly lucrative resource for criminal groups, and they have a history of shaking down the state's producers.
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As she was performing her job of secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation was shaking down donors who were buying access.
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These states—which tend to see the reform as Republicans shaking down their political opponents—may yet put up some resistance.
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Eight members of the police task force are accused of shaking down citizens and conspiring with drug dealers, The Sun reported.
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As recently as two years ago, one Arthur Avenue restaurateur went to prison for shaking down gamblers who owed him money.
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When Louie first offers Mowgli his protection, he sounds for all the world like a mob boss shaking down a local business.
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He's small potatoes, a joke among local pornographers like Harvey Wasserman, who knows his reputation for shaking down producers for extra cash.
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I — and I'm not trying to, by the way, suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and — you know, shaking down shopkeepers.
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We begin with a random scene set two weeks ago of a guy named Terry shaking down some dude who owes him money.
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She might work to prevent large firms from shaking down states and localities, be it through sports franchises or Amazon's ugly HQ2 lottery.
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There the 14-year-old shrewdly observed mobsters shaking down local merchants and, inspired, organized a ring to extort his fellow shoeshine boys.
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"I'm not trying to, by the way, suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and, you know, shaking down shopkeepers," Mr. Comey said.
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Woody rustled up fighters from his gym, and cooks from the restaurant, to go looking for the Triads who were shaking down the hood.
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The subpoenas should go to witnesses with testimony to offer to Trump's shaking down the Ukraine government — they should go to the White House.
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North Korea has a long history of shaking down donors—first the Soviet Union, then, after 1991, America and South Korea, and most recently China.
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Groupon – Groupon accused IBM of shaking down other tech companies for patent fees, as a court case involving the two companies continued in federal court.
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Upgrading characters makes those abilities more powerful, but locking it behind a paid, random loot box system feels like shaking down players for real-world cash.
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He has also launched a popular online video game, Fiscal Kombat, which features his character shaking down men in suits to empty cash from their pockets.
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The FARC eventually turned to the profitable cocaine trade to finance its insurgency, while shaking down rural people and terrorizing city dwellers with kidnappings and killings.
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Suddenly, the case against Donald Trump isn't built around his trashing of democratic norms, his truckling to Vladimir Putin, or his treachery in shaking down Ukraine.
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Groupon (GRPN) accused IBM (IBM) of shaking down other tech companies for patent fees, as a court case involving the two companies continued in federal court.
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"The subpoenas should go to witnesses with testimony to offer to Trump's shaking down the Ukraine government — they should go to the White House," Biden wrote.
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Yemen's third largest port, Mukalla was the militants' de facto capital for over a year where they grew rich by shaking down local businesses and charging port taxes.
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Even if many Americans have never heard the term, most are familiar with images of oft-satirized televangelists shaking down their viewers for donations in return for blessings.
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Watch the David Brocks of the world and the Super PACs like Priorities USA — all of which have participated in the meltdown — shaking down big donors for millions more.
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In addition to shaking down federal taxpayers for more than $110 million in construction costs, EPB borrowed more than $85033 million from Chattanooga's electric customers to fund marketing expenses.
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Some are helping themselves: there are now more than 236 police roadblocks shaking down tourists between the country's main crossing-point from South Africa and Victoria Falls, its biggest attraction.
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Police in the southern African country had become deeply unpopular for their traffic checkpoints, which many motorists and foreign tourists saw as a means of shaking down drivers for money.
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But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone.
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This follows more than a century of political bosses, many of them corrupt, associating with mobsters, shaking down constituents and businesses as well as controlling everything, including who gets a job.
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His subordinates testified that officers were told to carry BB guns in case they ever needed to plant weapons and that they occasionally posed as federal agents when shaking down targets.
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Internet trolls seem to be shaking down White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for money on payment app Venmo, while others are treating him like a charity case and sending him donations.
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De Sousa took over a department marred last year by the arrests on racketeering charges of officers in a gun crimes unit accused of shaking down city residents for thousands of dollars.
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Area police earned even more of a reputation for bribery, extortion, kidnapping and other crimes with tactics like shaking down citizens for their personal belongings or stopping trucks and looting their cargo.
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Area police earned even more of a reputation for bribery, extortion, kidnapping and other crimes with tactics like shaking down citizens for their personal belongings or stopping trucks and looting their cargo.
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But based on conversations with others about the incident, Trotta suspects Burke may have been shaking down drug dealers for crack and using the contraband with his girlfriend while they had sex.
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"I personally believe that the agencies are making so little money on directly selling the images to people that they have to resort to essentially shaking down celebrities to make money," he said.
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Mexican drug cartels are behind increases in the cost of avocados exported to the U.S., shaking down avocado farmers who are reeling from years of weak harvests, the country&aposs attorney general said.
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Rapper 50 Cent is being investigated by the NYPD over an Instagram post that appears to threaten a Brooklyn precinct boss accused of shaking down a hip-hop club, The Post has learned.
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" But Dean said it is clear that Trump or his staff are "shaking down foreign governments who have moved their events to his hotel in Washington at somebody's request in order to get favors.
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It was not clear why the agency commissioned the report but Mexico's migration officers have long been accused of corruption, shaking down migrants and even working with organized criminals involved in human smuggling rings.
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But it wasn't long before the new prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was drawing allegations of corruption, including from State Department officials who suspected he was shaking down targets and intentionally slow-walking investigations to protect allies.
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Box and the prosecution aren't considering other suspects, obviously, but the lawyer has to—hence his skillful shaking-down of Andrea's drug dealers and his zeroing in on a mysterious bystander named, um, Duane Reade.
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This is the man who brought us the fake Tawana Brawley case, the man who defended the claims of the lying Duke Lacrosse Accuser when he wasn&apost of course evading taxes or shaking down corporations.
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Protesters accused Ms. Park of trying to take South Korea back to the time when it was ruled by military dictators, including her father, Park Chung-hee, and the practice of shaking down businesses was commonplace.
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For three generations, members of the gangland dynasty have been imprisoned for crimes that have included shaking down construction sites, murdering a mob boss at a steakhouse and trying to extort the action-movie hero Steven Seagal.
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Already people have been chuffed by one striking change: the police are almost nowhere to be seen on the streets of Harare, the capital, whereas previously they were ubiquitous, shaking down drivers for minor or fictitious traffic offences.
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Avenatti is charged with shaking down Nike by threatening to expose its alleged misconduct unless the company hired him and celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos for $15 million to $25 million to conduct an internal probe, and pay Franklin $1.5 million.
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Nor has it succeeded in stopping China, which joined in 2001, from flouting the spirit, if not always the letter, of its rules by shaking down foreign investors for technologies it fancies and giving under-the-table assistance to its own industries.
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He can't hide the fact that he strives to hide so much from the American people — his tax returns and international business dealings, his actions in shaking down our Ukrainian allies for personal political gain, his rationale for engaging in bloody brinksmanship with Iran.
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I refer to the intelligence community patriot who caught President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 2020 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE red-handed, shaking down the Ukrainian government.
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The law has been roundly criticized for abuses by lawyers shaking down businesses for quick settlements but is also credited with reducing chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects, such as lead in hair dyes, mercury in nasal sprays and arsenic in bottled water.
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The city reached a $2 million settlement in 2016 with two officers — Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echeverria — who said they experienced retaliation after exposing a fellow officer who was accused of shaking down drug dealers and of framing people who would not go along with other crimes.
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The food-stamp bust dealt another gut punch to a city already reeling from an onslaught of negative press involving allegations of unscrupulous politicians and bureaucrats shaking down business owners and city contractors, illegally pillaging city coffers for personal gain, and driving the city to the precipice of insolvency.
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"A group of people doing their best to act like a group of mobsters, shaking down a pizzeria owner, will now face a steep price for what they described as 'kinda fun,'" said William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI New York field office, who announced the guilty plea.
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The Democratic governor was impeached and removed from office in 2009 for corruption, and was convicted in 2011 on multiple corruption charges related to his efforts to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Barack Obama won the presidency and to shaking down a children's hospital for campaign contributions.
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Without the Mueller investigation, Paul Manafort might well still be buying carpets instead of sitting in solitary confinement; Michael Cohen might still be shaking down corporations for cash; Richard Pinedo still selling stolen identities to online buyers; and Rick Gates and Sam Patten still selling access to hostile foreign powers.
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Confronted with a mountain of evidence that an American president abused his power by shaking down a vulnerable country for his own personal gain — and then stonewalled a congressional investigation into his behavior — senators should spare no effort in conducting a fair and thorough trial, complete with witnesses and documentary evidence.
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"This case is about a president of the United States shaking down the president of Ukraine by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid and a coveted Oval Office meeting to get him to help in cheating in the next election," Schiff told reporters during a break from the trial Tuesday.
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Johnson enthusiastically assists the most prominent neo-Nazi website in order to secure strategic alliances and cut himself a healthy paycheck; the president played on middle America's fear of a more diverse nation, befriending any crackpot conspiracist, flaunting the constitution's emoluments clause and ethics norms, all while shaking down the Secret Service for some spending money.
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In response, de facto ruler Mohammed Bin Salman, at 33 years old, has jettisoned traditional Saudi caution in kidnapping a Lebanese prime minister, cratering Gulf unity by isolating Qatar, waging war in Yemen, detaining and shaking down hundreds of royals, and arresting women activists who called for some of the very reforms the crown prince himself has enacted.
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If the president believes that corrupt conduct would help him get reelected, if he believes shaking down an ally and withholding military aid, if he believes soliciting foreign interference in our election, whether it be from the Ukrainians, or the Russians, or the Israeli prime minister, or anyone else in any form that it may take, so what?
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The defendants claimed that the plaintiffs were in the practice of 'shaking down' businesses for assertedly technical violations of disability access laws.
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"Shaking down hosts and bolstering Airwaves". The Globe and Mail, March 21, 1987. The show was modestly successful, with an average audience of 850,000 viewers per week in its first season.
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A light day of track activity saw John Andretti shaking down a car for Willy T. Ribbs at Walker Motorsports. Andretti hit 220.157 mph in the car, the fastest non-qualified car of the afternoon.
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They released their debut album, Shaking Down the Acorns, in 2012,"Slocan Ramblers grounded in tradition but looking toward the future". Grove Examiner, August 29, 2014. and followed up with Coffee Creek in 2015."The Slocan Ramblers: Coffee Creek". Exclaim!, July 11, 2015.
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A leisurely day of practice saw only 18 cars take laps. Emerson Fittipaldi, working on race set-ups, ran the best lap at 226.421 mph. Robby Gordon spent time shaking down back-up cars for his teammates Willy T. Ribbs and Mark Smith.
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A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shaking down the citizens. He dons the costume of his ancestor, the famous Zorro, and sets out to bring them to justice.
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A. J. Foyt came out of retirement, shaking down and testing the #50 Ford. In early July, Davy Jones turned a lap at , but would later wreck his primary car. Chevrolet and Pontiac teams took to the track in mid-July. Danny Sullivan blew an engine.
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He shot "Poochy" because he attempted to stop Burke from shaking down the bartender for protection money. Walsh was already being paid by the same bartender for protection. Walsh broke up a fight Burke had with the bartender earlier in the day. Burke left the bar, but came back with his .
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Ranger returned to Alameda in August 1973. She was ordered immediately to refit and repair at Long Beach Naval Base where she was prepared for her next WESPAC Cruise over the next ninety days. Her air wing was lifted aboard by giant crane in Long Beach. She spent two weeks shaking down active duty and Reserve pilots.
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Yonder shining like the sun's rays between the branches of green willows trot along the bold companions. The horse of one neighs happily on and shies and rushes there, hooves shaking down blooms, grass, trampling wildly the fallen flowers. Hei! How frenzied his mane flutters, and hotly steam his nostrils! Golden sun plays about their form reflecting them in the clear water.
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Roger Rager was the only major on-track incident of the day. On his second warm-up lap, he hit the outside wall in turn four, suffering an injured hand. He would miss the race. Larry Cannon brushed the wall on his second qualifying lap, and Dick Simon brushed the wall on the main stretch shaking down a car for Bill Puterbaugh.
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A depth charge explodes astern during a practice anti-submarine run during the USS PC-1264's shakedown tests. The USS PC 552 was commissioned on 29 July 1942, Lt. Donald McVickar, USNR commanding. By 12 August, the ship was underway for the first time in New York Harbor. The first few months were spent shaking down the ship, calibrating the engines, steering communication, guns, etc.
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Following commissioning, Torrance underwent 10 days of trials in Long Island Sound before setting course for Hampton Roads on 28 November. Soon after arriving in Norfolk the next day, the cargo ship conducted shakedown training in Hampton Roads. Leaving Norfolk after shaking down, Torrance headed for the west coast. Upon arrival in Caribbean waters on 17 December, she received orders to proceed to San Francisco, California.
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Stephen Flemmi. After the 1972 truce, Bulger and the Mullens were in control of South Boston's criminal underworld. FBI Special Agent Dennis Condon noted in his log in September 1973 that Bulger and Nee had been heavily shaking down the neighborhood's bookmakers and loan sharks. Over the years that followed, Bulger began to remove opposition by persuading Winter to sanction the killings of those who "stepped out of line".
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Ms. > Carl takes the ideas of good vs. evil quite seriously and probes deeply into > the idea of redemption. She does not, however, take her themes lightly, > instead giving them a vigorous shaking down before she's done, resulting in > a gripping spiritual thriller. One could easily call this 'in the tradition > of Charles Williams' — which it certainly is — but it more importantly moves > beyond that master of the spiritual thriller.
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After a shaking-down period engaged in minesweeping operations off the Atlantic Coast, the new ship was assigned to the force assigned the monumental task of sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage. Consequently, Oriole (Lt. Roy M. Cottrell, in command) proceeded to the Orkney Islands, and arrived at Kirkwall on 29 April 1919. She then spent 112 days in the minefields (punctuated by 41 days in port), and her sailors' efforts accounted for 1,925 mines.
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DeSimone worried about "shaking down" gamblers and bookmakers for fear that they would run to the police. In the 1960s, Bonanno crime family Boss Joseph Bonanno plotted to have DeSimone killed for failing to exploit the criminal opportunities in Los Angeles. The plan was thwarted, but caused DeSimone to become very paranoid, never leaving his house at night. DeSimone's unsuccessful reign concluded with his death in 1967, after 11 years in power.
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The Association's October 1928 report, which documented an astonishing 727 bombings in Chicago in the previous year, led to the formation of the city's first arson unit."May Ask Mayor to Form Bomb, Arson Bureau," Chicago Daily Tribune, October 26, 1928. In October 1928, Employers' Association president James W. Breen was linked to the rackets himself. Chicago police investigators alleged that Breen had helped form a battery makers' cartel, and that this trade group was shaking down non-members.
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The members were arrested in 2005 leading to the revelation that Gambino acting capo DePalma had allowed an FBI agent Joaquín García (known as Jack Falcone) work undercover with his crew since 2002. In late 2008, Gambino family acting capo Andrew Merola teamed with Luchese Jersey faction acting boss Martin Taccetta in an illegal gambling ring, shaking down unions, and extorting car dealerships. Merola was indicted in 2008 and Taccetta was returned to prison in 2009.
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Charlie splits up the partnership with Vernon and, after Marlo's revelation that he was tipped off by Tiffany about shaking down Larry, with her as well. As Vernon sits alone in a diner, The Dean, Eve and Scarne enter, revealing the game was all an elaborate setup by the four of them to con Charlie and Tiffany. They split the take, but as he leaves the Dean pauses to flip the blood-stained Ace of spades to Vernon.
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In the spring of 1986, the Colombo crime family crew, led by Michael Franzese, began shaking down associates of Balagula, who was running a multibillion-dollar gasoline bootlegging operation. In response, Balagula asked for a sit-down with Christopher Furnari, the consiglieri for the Lucchese crime family. After the sit-down took place in Brooklyn's 19th Hole social club, Balagula agreed to pay street tax to the Lucchese family. The money was not only strategically shared, but also became the Five Families' biggest moneymaker after narcotics trafficking.
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Organized crime in Minneapolis first attracted national attention in 1903, when thug and mayor Doc Ames (1842-1911) was exposed by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities. Steffens's account and subsequent trials revealed a police department recruited from felons shaking down the Minneapolis underworld on the mayor's behalf. Ames later fled the state, spending a short period as a fugitive before being arrested and extradited to Minnesota. He was convicted of receiving a bribe and sentenced to six years in prison.
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The continuous pounding of the waves on the side of the ship became interspersed with a violent shaking. Down in the engine room, the chief engineer knew that the vibration was from the propellers rising out of the water as a trough between waves running up to 10 and 20 feet (3 and 6.5 meters). First the propeller would rise out of the water, and then the spinning blades would crash back into the water. This kind of pounding could open every seam in the vessel.
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Registering thermometers are designed to hold the temperature indefinitely, so that the thermometer can be removed and read at a later time or in a more convenient place. Mechanical registering thermometers hold either the highest or lowest temperature recorded, until manually re-set, e.g., by shaking down a mercury-in-glass thermometer, or until an even more extreme temperature is experienced. Electronic registering thermometers may be designed to remember the highest or lowest temperature, or to remember whatever temperature was present at a specified point in time.
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The Chattahoochee spent the first part of 1863 shaking down, undergoing repairs and training the crew. There were constant problems with the engines, and on January 30, she hit a rock, causing a significant leak. The ship could no longer fulfill its original purpose, to sail down to the Gulf and sink or drive away the blockading US Navy ships. The ship never even made it down to the obstacle at the Narrows, where it could at least have served as a floating battery to help protect the obstacle.
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All eight members of the Gun Trace Task Force were accused in a federal racketeering indictment. The eight officers—Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, Maurice Ward, Momodu Gando, Thomas Allers and Wayne Jenkins—were accused of shaking down citizens for money and pocketing it, lying to investigators, filing false court paperwork, and making fraudulent overtime claims. The amount stolen from citizens ranged from $200 to $200,000. The probe began when the Drug Enforcement Administration started looking into the officers while investigating a drug organization and later involved the FBI.
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According to American authorities, the group lost considerable funding sources and popular support from 2007 onwards. A 2008 report on the group's funding reported that its most lucrative source of income was stolen oil in the region of Bayji (between Baghdad and Mosul), which yielded them $2 million a month. Other sources of income were kidnappings of wealthy Iraqi people for ransom, car theft, robbery, hijacking fuel trucks, counterfeiting, commandeering rations and shaking down Iraqi soldiers for ammunition, these activities brought in tens of millions of dollars. Accessible via Google.
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The operation, dubbed Operation Khanjar (Operation Dagger), was the first major push since U.S. President Obama's request for 21,000 additional soldiers in Afghanistan, targeting the Taliban insurgents. In February 2013, BBC reported that corruption occurs in Afghan National Police bases, with some bases arming children, using them as servants and sometimes sexually abusing them; in early March 2013, the New York Times reported that government corruption is rampant with routine accusations against the police of shaking down and sexually abusing civilians causing loyalty to the government to be weaker.
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Blackbeard's intention is to use his ghostly powers to help Godolphin win the track meet, and then use the winnings to pay the mortgage in full. Steve is at first outraged by the pirate's interference, but he decides the greater good is to win the money for the sake of the Inn. He also accepts the pirate's help in shaking down Silky Seymour and his thugs after Seymour refuses to pay out the winnings from the bet. With the mortgage paid, Blackbeard has performed his good deed and is released from the curse.
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Similar notices were published over the next four years, to no avail. In 1753 the Great and General Court passed an act forbidding "all riotous, tumultuous and disorderly Assemblies" from "carrying pageants and other shews through the streets and lanes of the town of Boston and other towns of this province, abusing and insulting the inhabitants". The court passed similar acts in 1756, 1758, 1763, and 1769, but the locals were determined to have their fun. The 1769 Riot Act imposed penalties for shaking down wealthy residents: Authorities apparently could not rely on the militia to keep order on Pope Night.
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In 2003 at the Boise Airport she was selected by the Transportation Security Administration for a hand search before they would permit her to board a plane for her Nevada home. Chenoweth-Hage requested to see a copy of the regulation granting United States Department of Homeland Security the authority to search her without cause. When the request was denied, she refused to submit to the search and elected to make the trip by rental car. "Our borders are wide open and yet they're shaking down a 66-year-old white grandmother they greeted by name," she said of the incident.
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Scarfe finds out about Luke's actions from Chico, kills him, and sells Luke out to Cottonmouth. Cottonmouth tries to kill Luke by blowing him up in Genghis Connie's with a rocket launcher, but Luke survives the building collapse. Outraged at Luke's refusal to die, Cottonmouth orders his men to begin shaking down local businesses for what he calls a "Luke Cage stupidity tax" in hopes of driving Luke out of Harlem, but Luke rallies to help the victims recover their money and possessions. Meanwhile, Scarfe, who has found himself under investigation internally by the NYPD, decides to blackmail Cottonmouth for $100,000.
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On April 25, 2012, DiNunzio was arrested and charged with racketeering and extortion. On September 13, 2012, DiNunzio pleaded guilty to shaking down Rhode Island strip clubs, and was sentenced to six years on November 14, 2012. On October 2, 2014 acting boss Antonio L. "Spucky" Spagnolo, 72, and reputed made man Pryce "Stretch" Quintina, 74, were arrested for allegedly extorting thousands of dollars in protection payments from a video poker machine company which installed machines for illegal gambling in bars and social clubs. Spagnolo took over as acting boss after Anthony DiNunzio was arrested back in 2012.
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Geographically, this was the period when Outfit muscle extended to Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, Kansas City, and especially to Hollywood and other California cities, where The Outfit's extortion of labor unions gave it leverage over the motion picture industry. In the early 1940s, a handful of top Outfit leaders went to prison because they were found to be extorting Hollywood by controlling the unions that compose Hollywood's movie industry, and manipulating and misusing the Teamsters Central States Pension fund. In 1943, the Outfit was caught red- handed shaking down the Hollywood movie industry. Ricca wanted Nitti to take the fall.
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Growing up in poverty and tormented over his weight, Amos developed a ruthless streak as he used his knowledge of games of chance to fleece his classmates of their money. The original Royal Flush Gang were retconned as his enforcers, then gang members as they began robbing local stores. The group eventually were brought into the service of a local mafia don, who further trained them in crime. When the don found out about Amos's skill at cards, he charged Amos with the task of shaking down a private poker party being held for a group of wealthy gamblers.
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Cenk Uygur, regular host of The Young Turks was a frequent guest on The Dylan Ratigan Show. Ratigan at MSNBC On January 9, 2012, he appeared as a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, discussing the premise of his book, Greedy Bastards, viz. the swindling and robbing of America by "government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational system". The final episode of The Dylan Ratigan Show was on June 22, 2012.
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This, the newest 3 RAR company had been formed in late 1949 and early 1950 from the young men who joined the Regular Army after World War II. By the standards of the other companies C Company was very young and untested. Much of the banter within the battalion was directed at them. Good humoured as it was, when it continued once the battalion commenced operations the young regulars became all the more determined to show their mettle. C Company was a well trained sub unit and, unlike the other sub units still shaking down, was a cohesive team.
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Nine Dragons is the 14th novel in the Harry Bosch series and the 22nd book (21st novel) by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was published in the U.K. and Ireland on October 1, 2009, and worldwide on October 13, 2009. The novel is partly set in Hong Kong, where Bosch's daughter Maddie and ex- wife Eleanor Wish live. The main plot involves Maddie being kidnapped by a Chinese Triad (crime syndicate), which Bosch believes is due to his investigation of an L.A. murder, in which his primary suspect is a member of a triad that was shaking down the victim.
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Angel Rodriguez (born circa 1967) was a Democratic New York City Councilman representing District 38 in Brooklyn (which includes Sunset Park, Red Hook, and South Park Slope). In 2002, he was arrested on corruption charges for allegedly shaking down “more than $1.5 million (from a real estate developer) in payoffs in exchange for his stamp of approval on a major building project.” At the time of his arrest, he was co-chairman of the Black and Latino caucus, and headed the subcommittee on Revenue and Forecast. He was sentenced in June 2003 to 52 months in prison and to pay $18,000 in restitution and fined $25,000.
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As Blanco pays well for Lee's un-reporting, Marcia becomes suspicious of Lee's wealth, but Lee denies any illegality in the acquisition of the money. Becoming increasingly confident of his control, Lee determines to acquire a larger share of the bribes by shaking down the gangsters. After learning that Number One, the head of the organization, is planning on opening a new gambling house, he threatens Blanco that he will print that information unless he gets a bigger share of money. Upon meeting Number One, Lee obtains the larger graft, but is warned that if the story gets published, he will be in danger.
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Thornback soon returned to the United States, where she was decommissioned at New London on 6 April 1946 and was placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Subsequently, brought to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, she was converted and reactivated under the Greater Underwater Propulsive Power Program (GUPPY). On 2 October 1953, the submarine was recommissioned, Lieutenant Commander Thomas C. Jones, Jr., in command, and assigned to Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 4. Shaking down in her new configuration, the submarine performed a "first" for submarines on 6 November 1954, when she snorkeled in the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana, from the Industrial Canal to the foot of Canal Street.
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FBI surveillance photograph of Casso, Vic Amuso and Frank Lastorino FBI surveillance photograph of Casso and Sammy Gravano Casso had a close alliance with Russian boss Marat Balagula, who operated a multibillion-dollar gasoline bootlegging scam in Brighton Beach. Balagula, a Soviet Jewish refugee from Odessa, had arrived in the US under the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. After Colombo capo Michael Franzese began shaking down his crew, Balagula approached Christopher Furnari, consigliere for the Lucchese crime family, and asked for a sit-down at the 19th Hole Crew's social club in Brooklyn. According to Casso, Furnari declared, > Here there's enough for everybody to be happy...to leave the table > satisfied.
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In 1929 Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded "Peach Orchard Mama" ("... you swore nobody'd pick your fruit but me / I found three kid men shaking down your peaches free"). In later years lines using similar imagery were used in "Matchbox" by Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis; "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band; an early version of "Pipeliner Blues" by Moon Mullican; and, most directly, "If You Don't Want My Peaches, Don't Shake My Tree" by Fox. Ahmet Ertegun was able to convince Miller to pay him US$50,000, claiming authorship of the line in his song "Lovey Dovey". This verse and its ubiquitous usage is an example of the tradition of floating lyrics (also called 'maverick stanzas') in folk-music tradition.
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The book consists of the following stories: #The King of The Beggars: Templar and Hoppy are recruited by a theatre actress to investigate the murder of a beggar and a criminal ring shaking down other needy people. #The Masked Angel: When a boxer dies in the ring under mysterious circumstances, the Saint, Hoppy and Pat Holm investigate in hopes of preventing the Masked Angel from claiming another victim. A minor character in this story later plays a major role in one of the short stories featured in the 1955 collection The Saint on the Spanish Main. The two stories do not narratively connect with the preceding novel, The Saint Sees it Through, beyond Templar still working in the United States, and a reference to his wartime activities.
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Thompson and Smith were indicted on ten counts by a grand jury in Baton Rouge in an alleged kickback scheme. The two were charged with shaking down the International Management System of Missouri to pay a percentage of its contract price from the state of Louisiana into a pool or a "kitty" in which the money was divided among Thompson, Smith, and a third man, Edward G. Ackal, a businessman from Lafayette,"Nix keeps deputies on payroll,", Minden Press-Herald, July 31, 1981, p. 1 whose company Educational Products Corporation was engaged in the sale of goods and services to the state government. The grand jury claimed that Thompson, Smith, and Ackal conspired to split $360,000 of an $889,000 contract to International Management System.
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The commission even concluded that "grass eating" was used by police officers in New York City to prove their loyalty to the brotherhood, and with that came incentives like side jobs. One method of preventing cops from becoming corrupt is to eliminate this step by removing veteran cops who do this; without any veteran cops to learn this from, new officers might decide to never "eat grass". "Meat Eaters" are officers who "spend a good deal of time aggressively looking for situations they can exploit for financial gain". An example of this is shaking down pimps and illicit drug dealers for money, not only for the material profit to the officers, but for the relief from guilt that the officers derive by convincing themselves that their victims deserve such treatment.
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The Mafia continues to operate in the area, with most members being associates of the New Jersey Mafia and Philadelphia Mafia. A notorious Mafia murder allegedly occurred in mid-February 1981, when an ambitious, young, half-Irish, half-Italian Trenton gangster named Frank Stillitano's corpse was found stuffed into the trunk of a car, which was linked to his own brother-in-law 12 days later, at Philadelphia International Airport. He had been shot behind the left ear and in the left knee. Cops from Philly to Trenton to New York knew right away who killed Frank "Frankie Stale" Stillitano, 28: He was known for shaking down tavern owners and small businesses and was not a very admirable character; soldiers from the Gambino crime family made the hit to avenge Stillitano's slaying of Trenton capo Nicky Russo's son on March 24, 1979.
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Matthews allegedly turned a blind eye to the actions of his primary supporters Scarfo and Phillip "Crazy Phil" Leonetti, joining them in shaking down others and concentrating on extorting money from city officials. In late 1983, a month or two before Scarfo was released from prison in January 1984, Leonetti found out that the FBI was investigating the illegal activities between the Scarfo Family and Matthews. Leonetti learned about the investigation a day or two before it made the news. At first, Matthews decided to help the FBI and gave them a confession, but shortly thereafter decided against cooperating. Matthews was charged with the attempted extortion of $668,000 from two businesses set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and with taking $14,000 in bribes from an undercover F.B.I. agent posing as a representative of the companies.
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The Mafia at Apalachin, Michael Newton During Scalish's tenure as the boss, the Cleveland family lived up its golden years.[z&sig;=08lRZ5V9JVzdla88yamNdkeg8JY&hl;=it&sa;=X&ei;=vVlqU9mLA6yv7Abel4GwBA&ved;=0CG0Q6AEwDDgK#v=onepage&q;=john%20scalish%20leadership&f;=false The Rise of the Mafia], Martin Short Scalish was involved in Casino skimming in Las Vegas, Nevada shaking down Casinos such as the Stardust and Desert Inn along with other crime bosses from across the U.S. Scalish oversaw the Cleveland family's aggressive move into Las Vegas and California with Moe Dalitz taking over the failing Desert Inn from Bugsy Siegel. Dalitz also led the development of other casinos, a major hospital and other Las Vegas projects, many of which were financed by the mob-controlled Teamsters union. Scalish was a very powerful and respected mob boss and overruled underlings who controlled gambling, loansharking and during his reign, and large-scale union corruption.
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After sea trials, shaking down, and ten days attached to the 1st Cruiser Squadron in Scapa Flow, she arrived at Plymouth '..on 5 December 1943 to work with HM ships Glasgow and Enterprise under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.' With these ships she commenced anti-blockade runner patrols in the Bay of Biscay in December, as part of Operation Stonewall. Of particular note was the pursuit of the German blockade-runner Osorno, and the pursuit and destruction of another blockade-runner under Captain William-Powlett's overall command, but without actual involvement: ' 'Under the circumstances,’ wrote ..William-Powlett, ‘Gambia, the senior of the four cruisers, was unable to take part in the successful and exciting operation carried out by Glasgow and Enterprise: she could merely play the part of an exasperated listener-in....’ Gambia served with the British Pacific Fleet, and participated in attacks on Japanese positions throughout the Pacific. In February 1944 she searched for blockade runners in the Cocos Islands area.
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McCormack began his 23-year policing career working at 52 Division, in downtown Toronto's entertainment district, where his older brother, William Jr., was assigned from 1996 until his suspension in April 2004, when criminal charges for corruption were laid in relation to "shaking down club owners" in 52 Division and William Jr. resigned in March 2009 although the criminal charges for soliciting and accepting bribes were stayed for excessive delay by Crown prosecutors and the lead police investigator. Mike subsequently moved to 51 Division, policing Toronto's Regent Park district, which he "loved", later indicating "Regent Park was my niche". In 2002, 51 Division's McCormack, Detective Constable Jack Caccavale, and Detective Scott Matthews, of the Toronto Police Drug Squad, co-founded the annual event which McCormack co- emcees. The event was started to boost morale following the suspension of several 51 Division officers, including former TPA president Craig Bromell, for allegedly beating up homeless man Thomas Kerr.
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