Word: blackmailed
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...seemingly innocuous Tuscan-born businessman. Police carted out more than 1,000 letters, documents, diaries and ledgers in a dawn raid. Among the papers were confidential police intelligence reports from the 1960s that the government had ordered destroyed in 1974. Said an investigator: "The documents have a potential for blackmail in political, economic and journalistic circles. Licio Gelli had his hand in everything...
While Dr. Prentice momentarily leaves the stage, Nicholas Beckett (Ted Chandler), a young page boy from the station hotel who prides himself on his sexual prowess, enters and attempts to blackmail Mrs. Prentice. Temporarily satisfied by Mrs. Prentice's promise of a secretarial post with her husband, Beckett leaves, promising to return shortly with the incriminating evidence...
...Playboy pinup and Capitol Hill lobbyist denied rumors that she had video-taped 17 trysts, or that she kept a list of D.C. luminaries with whom she had sported. Well, one video tape and a short list of names, perhaps, none of which she would dream of using to blackmail nervous Congressmen, who have been busy pointing fingers in other directions while waiting for Parkinson to go public. Says Paula: "They did it to themselves. I didn't do anything to let the cat out of the bag." No votes were traded for sex, she claims...
...also, according to speculation, had carried on a long-running affair with his secretary, whom he married in 1968 after his wife of 31 years divorced him. Could that affair have provided a basis for blackmail? That seemed unlikely in Britain's tolerant Establishment. Burgess, Maclean and Blunt were known to be homosexual; Philby had a reputation as a womanizer...
Such widespread outcries of dismay and indignation were provoked by Syria's and Pakistan's apparent violation of the cardinal rule of international antiterrorism procedure: do not surrender to blackmail...