This narrative holds that patent trolls extort virtuous companies via spurious patent infringement claims.
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At least one was accused by colleagues of trying to extort money by threatening negative coverage.
To experts, this looked like a ploy by a failing company to extort money.
Honiara's special constables regularly extort money from the government, including extravagant allowances and overtime payments.
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This is an unfortunate attempt to extort unreasonable and unfair fee increases from Cablevision and our customers.
The police also urge users to call authorities immediately if someone tries to extort money from you.
They were suspected of hacking into US internet companies, stealing sensitive data and trying to extort money.
Public buses in Honduras are frequently attacked by gangs who rob passengers and extort money from drivers.
They want to be able to research properly the assets of the people and the businesses they extort.
Bolivian authorities arrested six government officials last month, accusing them of trying to extort and steal from Ostreicher.
Once even a few extort cards are online, every spell becomes potential points off the opposing life total.
They can extract - some would say extort - big financial or political favours in return for their support.
"The not-so-subtle insinuation that Ms. Kelley attempted to extort money from your clients is unfounded and reprehensible, " DePrimo responded.
So Castaeda is floating his idea to extort bribes from the United States.
Tribesmen may then resort to kidnapping to extort money from the government, local oil companies or even foreign countries.
There is a suspicion that the maras may be letting businesses recover, the better to extort from them later.
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But they continue to cross it to extort and kidnap, complain Venezuelan ranchers.
But on 15 August 2011 Coats forced John Glen to strip naked in an attempt to extort more money from him.
The ex-fiance of Tamara Ecclestone has denied trying to blackmail her saying he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
He was also charged with plying the boy with alcohol, conspiring to abduct, extort and falsely imprison the child and his family.
" In his review, the Army judge advocate said the charges constituted "resort to torture with a view to extort a confession.
"They will, under any pretext, extort you, " he says of the authorities.
Xinhua said Friday Chongqing police had broken up "a criminal ring" suspected of using secret sex videos to extort officials in the city.
Sounds a lot like patent trolling, a much-vilified practice in which contingency lawyers or small companies with no operations sue businesses to extort money.
Besides what gives members of the left-wing FARC who murder and extort any more right to participate in political life than the right-wing paramilitaries?
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He said it was Mr Uddin who came up with the "ludicrous" amount of money and he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
Foreigners say that the police often harass them and extort bribes.
Fake and hacked accounts are everywhere on social networking sites and are frequently used to send malware or occasionally to extort money out of friends.
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They basically used what amounted to torture to extort the evidence.
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