Word: extortionate
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So here he is, ROBERT DE NIRO, minding his own business in a New York City bar, when this paparazzo, this JOSEPH LIGIER, shoves a video camera in his face. De Niro allegedly grabs the guy's hair; the photog files assault charges. And then the real drama starts. Ligier...
Software, guns and money? While software piracy is nothing new, the people doing the pirating are. During the past 18 months, a notorious 300-year-old Hong Kong-based gang known as the Wah Ching has extended its reach beyond its usual lines of business -- murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling...
Administrators respond that they are merely extending to the university the same strictures that apply in the workplace: when there is power involved, whether between boss and employee or teacher and student, a sexual relationship opens the door to extortion, exploitation and favoritism. Drawing the lines more boldly, they argue...
Crime, not economics or political rivalries, is the No. 1 issue in the country today. In cities all across the nation, gangs operate with near impunity, practicing fraud and extortion, conducting illegal trade, bribing and corrupting officials and viciously murdering anyone who gets in their way. When Listyev, a popular...
Extortion -- in this case hypothetical -- is only one of the many imaginative, daring and increasingly publicized crimes that have gone high tech in recent years. In addition to the predictable tax, insurance and credit-card scams, software infringements and eavesdropping, the computer is now the site of crimes that range...