Word: extortionate
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FBI and Secret Service agents say they've uncovered the biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers...
All the same, many Koreans remain enthralled by their wiseguys. The myth of the noble mafioso may be badly frayed in most countries but Korea's gangsters?or "fists," as they are called?are still folk heroes. (The term comes from a traditional preference for fist fights?not until the...
Godfather Cho has done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh...
President Clinton's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich ignited the firestorm - but inside the Justice Department, career prosecutors are also burning over the clemency grant for Manhattan lawyer Harvey Weinig, sentenced in 1996 to 11 years in prison for facilitating an extortion-kidnapping scheme and helping launder at least...
If reportage of that special stain on Monica Lewinsky's dress rubbed you the wrong way, now would be a good time to turn to the always hysterical News Quiz...O.K. Tennis great BORIS BECKER, target of a $4.8 million paternity suit filed by Russian model Angela Ermakova in a...