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Man charged with blackmail for threat to kill colt

A man has been charged with blackmail over a threat to kill 4-year-old colt Conduit before his Group One victory at Ascot.

Prosecutors: CA man admits blackmailing teacher

Prosecutors say a former Southern California high school student has admitted demanding money and pornographic photos from a teacher accused of having sex with a current student.

Mexico compensates men for forced sterilizations

State authorities have agreed to pay 490,000 pesos (US$48,000) in compensation to 14 indigenous Mexican men coerced into having vasectomies, an official said.

Plea deal in Alejandro Sanz blackmail case

A husband and wife who once worked for Latin music star Alejandro Sanz took a plea deal Monday just as their blackmail trial was about to start.

Jury convicts 2 men of blackmailing British royal

Two men were convicted Friday and sentenced to five years in prison in the first plot to blackmail a member of Britain's royal family in more than a century.

Judge Keeps Hawaii E-Mails Sealed

E-mail messages between the Hawaii governor's former top aide and a man who was blackmailing him cannot be publicly released, a federal judge ruled.

2 Men Deny Royal Blackmail Attempt

Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempting to blackmail a member of Britain's royal family over alleged sex and drug claims.

Hawaii Governor Speaks Out on Blackmail

After months of refusing to discuss her chief of staff's resignation, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said his blackmail over a relationship with a woman in the Philippines was strictly personal and did not involve any misuse of state resources.

UK Royal Blackmail Plot Suspects Named

Prosecutors identified two men on Monday who were arrested by undercover police while allegedly attempting to blackmail a member of Britain's royal family with a sex videotape.

Report: 2 Arrested Over Royal Blackmail

A newspaper reported that police have arrested two men over an attempt to blackmail a member of the British royal family with an alleged sex tape.

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US defense contractors pay insurgents millions, report says
Source: Raw Story

US defense contractors are funding insurgents in Afghanistan, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, according to a report in The Nation published Thursday.

Nuclear workers asked to spy on colleagues' lives
Source: Herald Scotland

'Orwellian' moves aimed at reducing blackmail risk

Sex slave scheme unravels
Source: 10connects.com

It was a would-be sex slave plot that police say involved a man kidnapping his long-time friend, taking nude photos of her and then blackmailing her into weekly sexual trysts. .

Italian paparazzo Fabrizio Corona charged over blackmail photos
Source: Telegraph

It is a tangled tale of sex, greed, ambition and blackmail in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.

Military.com reports Sibel Edmonds testimony: Ex-FBI Translator Claims Spying at DoD
Source: Military.com

After seven years of forced silence, a government whistleblower is opening up on what she learned while working as a Turkish translator for the FBI in the wake of 9/11.

California County Hoarding Map Data Ordered to Pay $500,000
Source: Wired News

A California county's three-year battle to prevent a nonprofit group from obtaining public mapping data has ended disastrously for the county after it was ordered by a court to pay the group $500,000 in legal costs.

Senator Ensign's Affair - the Other Potential Blackmail
Source: The Baldwin Park Democrat Blog

Family values proponent and born-again christian Senator John Ensign (R-NV) broke his marriage vows to his wife, had a prolonged sexual relationship with a woman on his staff (whose cuckold husband also worked for Ensign), and gave his mistress and her family almost $100,000 as a …

Comic's case gains charges
Source: tulsaworld.com

A CBS newsman who prosecutors said was desperate and deep in debt was charged Friday with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that forced the late night comic to acknowledge having sex with some of the women who work for him.

African Social Networks Aiding in Blackmail of Gays
Source: Fast Company

Social network blackmail schemes are on the rise, but nowhere have they become more malicious than in the east African nation of Ghana, where gay Internet community members are being trapped, kidnapped and robbed, often with the aid of the police.

In Sweden, silence is golden – literally
Source:

"The gold is in the form of Swedish tax revenues paid dutifully by hard-working Swedes lucky enough to still have a job.

Former Volusia resident at center of Tennessee sex scandal involving lawmaker
Source: The Orlando Sentinel

A former Volusia County resident is at the center of a sex scandal that has rocked the Tennessee legislature.

Anti-gay, pro-abstinence legislator had affair with intern
Source: Raw Story

State Sen. Paul Stanley only recently sponsored legislation designed to prohibit gay couples in his home state from ever adopting children.

Blackmail Epidemic Ravages GOP Philanderers
Source: Talking Points Memo

Meet Paul Stanley. He's a Republican state senator in Tennessee who teaches Sunday school, loudly opposes allowing gay couples to adopt and is a firm opponent of sex outside of marriage -- except his own.

Former priest murdered amid child abuse claims - Times
Source: The Times

A former British priest has been founded murdered in Libya after complaining that he was being blackmailed over claims he had abused pupils at schools where he worked.

BMW heiress blackmailed for third time over sex videos
Source: thelocal.de

Munich police confirmed on Friday that they are investigating a third case of sexual blackmail against BMW heiress Susanne Klatten after three men tried to filch some 800,000 from the 46-year-old for a sex tape.

Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan
Source: hindu.com

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that India was "willing to walk more than half the distance" to normalise relations if Pakistan reaffirmed that it would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre to justice and would not allow its territory to be used for te …

Shaking Off a Phantom AOL Bill
Source: Wall Street Journal

Back in 2000, I worked at a magazine published by Time Inc., a division of Time Warner. When Time Warner merged with AOL, all employees got a petite perk: a free AOL email account.

Medical students inject tycoon's wife with "poison" - demand ransom for antedote
Source: austriantimes.at

Two medical students have been jailed after injecting a tycoon's wife with what they said was deadly poison and demanding a 45,000 GBP ransom for an antidote.

Personal ad led to arrest of Germany's most wanted man
Source: thelocal.de

New details have emerged about the arrest last week of Thomas Wolf, Germany's most wanted man: He was caught after posting a personal ad looking for a wife, Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.

Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
Source: Independent.co.uk

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.

Teddy bear seller used student's Muslim faith to blackmail her
Source: The Times

A gift-shop owner extorted £8,000 from a Muslim student who feared that she would be reported to the police as a "terrorist sympathiser", a court was told yesterday.

Copycat tries to blackmail BMW heiress again
Source: thelocal.de

A man tried to blackmail BMW heiress Susanne Klatten out of €75,000 with an alleged sex video, just two months after her former lover and blackmailer was jailed for doing the same thing, Bild reported Saturday.

Man Charged With Drugging Men To Assault Them -
Source: wbaltv.com

An Annapolis-area man is accused of drugging or trying to drug five men to take advantage of them.

Porn king reports police over crime gang sting
Source: thelocal.se

Swedish porn baron Berth Milton has filed a complaint accusing police of using him in a sting operation targeting one of Sweden's most dangerous criminal gangs without his knowledge.

White House threats in Chrysler episode
Source: LewRockwell.com

"One of my clients was directly threatened by the White House, and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal, under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy his reputation if it continued to fight…"

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