Word: blackmailed
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...pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...
...police have put pressure on such traditional gangland rackets as gambling, drug trafficking and prostitution, the mobsters have increasingly turned to corporation blackmail for new revenues. The shakedowns are made possible by the common corporate practice of hiring yakuza thugs, instead of less effective private guards, to police general stockholders' meetings. Such men even have a name, sokaiya, meaning general-meeting experts...
Protected by gangster muscle power, management has often been saved from probing or embarrassing inquiries by dissident stockholders. But as soon as the gangsters learn the inside dealings of a company, often with the aid of hired detectives, they turn the information into lucrative blackmail. Some sokaiya are known to maintain complete dossiers on corporate misdeeds, including the names of mistresses kept by executives. All too often, the companies are willing to pay the price of silence lest their public images be tarnished...
...Gabor declared on becoming national women's "I.Q." ("I Quit") chairman of the American Cancer Society. Eva, who has just filed for a divorce from her fourth husband, urged women to make their spouses give up tobacco. Said she: "Nagging won't do it. You should blackmail them. I did that with one husband. We had a terrific argument and I said I would only forgive him if he'd give up his three packs a day. Now I have a new beau and I'm sending him to a hypnotist to help him give...
...Ernestine routines, she is dunning an invisible Gore Vidal -whose name she pronounces "Veedle"-for $23.64. When "Mr. Veedle" talks back, she threatens him with all those recordings that the phone company has been making of his calls over the years. "I think blackmail is such an ugly word," she tells him in a voice that mixes honey with brine. "Let's just call it a vicious threat...