Word: blackmailer
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What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring are still not known, 15 members have been arrested over the past year, and eight of them, including Fellebaum, have pleaded guilty. The ring's victims -many of them prominent in entertainment, business, education and Government-have numbered perhaps 1,000, and their total payoff is estimated...
...British novelists, though seldom adventurous in form, are insistently complex in content. In The Seahorse (Atheneum) by Anthony Masters, 24, progressive education in England gets a gruesome going-over. Masters' headmaster participates in creative play with his assistant's wife, the kiddies express themselves by plotting blackmail and even murder, and a member of the staff releases inhibitions by decapitating cats. Masters too often manufactures sensations instead of making sense, but he can summon remarkable talents for projecting character and transmitting an atmosphere of educational gothic...
...response was short but to the point. Moniem El-Khatib, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq said, "the question of Arab refugees in Israel is one of blackmail...
Tonight's films will be Blackmail (1930), Hitchcock's first talkie, and the better-known Psycho (1961). Both films can be viewed in the downstairs auditorium of the Carpenter Center...
With a little judicious blackmail, Potter could bring an end to the terrible waste of electricity in the City of Light