Word: extortionate
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"It's a rip off. They're charging three to four times more than anybody else," he said. "They should be morally obligated to lower international rates. It is pure extortion."
That drama appeared to end two weeks ago, when a jury convicted Autumn Jackson, 22, the woman who claims to be Cosby's illegitimate daughter, of extortion for trying to coax $40 million out of Dear Old (Maybe) Dad in exchange for her not taking her story to the tabloids...
Weld's attempts earlier this summer to get a meeting with Helms, using Republican Senators as intermediaries, were all rebuffed. So the week before Weld was formally nominated he held an extraordinary press conference at which he challenged the White House not to "give in to ideological extortion." The White...
Stupidity and naivete, it seems, are no excuse under the law. Autumn Jackson faces as much as 12 years in prison and $750,000 in fines because of a clumsy attempt she made to extort money from the man she says she thought was her father. (In case you've...
NEW YORK: Autumn Jackson was found guilty of attempting to extort money from Bill Cosby by threatening to tell tabloid newspapers she was his out-of-wedlock child. She was also convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines to commit a crime, and faces up to 12 years in prison...