Word: blackmailing
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...least the reasonable facsimile thereof--thickens. Grump is backing his own babe, Delia Cards (Aaron Zelman), the thoroughly corrupt golddigger with whom he sings "It's Good to Be Evil." (Sample lyrics: "Being kind is kinda stupid/ Being just is just as dumb.") So Grump tries to blackmail the pageant's judges: Wyatt Stinksinhere (a Yosemite Sam parody played by Michael Rosenbaum), Austin Tation (a Don King parody played by Todd Kessler) and Ali Caneet (a Muhammad Ali parody played by Skip Sneeringer...
...landlords get them to sign things in English that they don't even know they're signing," says LaFontant. "[The landlords] practice blackmail...
...policy is based in part on the assumption that gay and lesbian soldiers are more susceptible to blackmail. In addition, Pentagon officials claim that the presence of homosexuals disrupts the camaraderie and trust necessary for an efficient, tightly-knit military unit...
...types of industrial espionage" including the "giving and receiving of commercial bribes." No charges have been filed against Ahmad, but a former bank official told TIME, as well as investigators for two grand juries, that Ahmad was connected to the bank's "black network" of operatives who used bribery, blackmail and sometimes terrorism to further the bank's schemes in 73 countries...
...Arthur's Camelot than Capone's Chicago. J.F.K. himself, we know, was almost literally in bed with the Chicago Mob, sleeping with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev...