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Byline: Oona Goodin-Smith May 2--Roughly three hours into their marathon day of deliberations last week, 11 of the 12 jurors in John Dougherty's federal extortion trial were ready to acquit [...]

WASHINGTON Gina Rita Russell, 35, formerly of New York, N.Y., and Los Angeles, California, was sentenced today to 125 months in prison for masterminding an elaborate fraud, extortion, and money [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia: Gina Rita Russell, 35, formerly of New York, N.Y., and Los [...]

RALEIGH, NC -- The following information was released by the North Carolina Department of Insurance: North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey today announced the arrest of Brody Alan Hankinson, 48, [...]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. A resident of Ellenwood, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal court to two years of imprisonment on his conviction of conspiring and traveling interstate to commit extortion, United [...]

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania: A resident of Ellenwood, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal [...]

MIAMI Frenel Cenat, a former police officer with the City of Miami Police Department (MPD) was sentenced today to 135 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of [...]

MIAMI, FL -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida: Frenel Cenat, a former police officer with the City of [...]

Byline: CAROLINA BORGES (WSVN) -- Click here for updates on this story FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (WSVN) -- A former City of Miami Police officer was sentenced for extortion and attempted [...]

PHILADELPHIA United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that James Stevens, 71, of Somerdale, NJ, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert to 37 months [...]

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that James [...]

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAMOR WHITEHEAD was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to nine years [...]

Byline: Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Lamor Whitehead, a flashy Brooklyn pastor nicknamed the 'Bling Bishop,' was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after being convicted [...]

New York City, NY -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for [...]

WASHINGTON Ruth Nivar, 56, and Yessica Moya, 35, both of Washington, D.C., were arrested this morning on charges related to extortion and conspiracy. The charges, filed in U.S. District Court [...]

JACKSON, Tenn. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee: A federal grand jury in Jackson, Tennessee recently returned an [...]

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorneys Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Anthony Zayas, age 35, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by [...]

A man has been charged with blackmail by Cybercrime Squad detectives investigating an alleged data breach threatening to share the personal details of over one million people. On Wednesday 1 [...]

Byline: Severin Carrell Scotland editor Humza Yousaf's brother-in-law has been arrested and charged following the death of a man in Dundee earlier this year. Ramsay El-Nakla, 36, has been charged [...]

Byline: By, Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas Three people have been arrested after a man fell to his death from a flat window. A woman has been charged with culpable homicide, with two [...]

Comedian (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kevin-hart) Kevin Hart is fighting back against gossip blogger LaTasha Kebe (better known as Tasha K) and his former assistant Miesha Shakes, who he says shook him down for [...]

Byline: Des Bieler Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott filed a lawsuit against a woman he is accusing of an attempted $100 million extortion scheme. Also targeted by Prescott's lawsuit, filed [...]

Byline: Des Bieler Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has filed a lawsuit against a woman he is accusing of an attempted $100 million extortion scheme. Also targeted by Prescottâs lawsuit, [...]

Lamor Whitehead was accused of using $90,000 of a parishioner's retirement savings to buy luxury goods and trying to force a businessman to lend him $500,000. Lamor Whitehead, a Brooklyn [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Police in the Toronto region have charged five people and are investigating 29 incidents of alleged extortion, part of a 'disturbing trend' that officials say has [...]

Manhattan's federal prosecutor said the number of bribery charges, 70 in all, amounted to a single-day record for the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed bribery and extortion charges [...]

With its streamlined curves and glow-in-the-dark sound system, the silver Lamborghini Huracán Performante was the stuff of teenage fantasy: $350,000 of aerodynamic metals and lightweight upholstery, packed into a taut [...]

HARRISBURG, PA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of [...]

DENVER, CO -- The following information was released by the office of the Colorado Attorney General: A San Luis Valley man with recent ties to Gunnison County was sentenced today [...]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Utah: Leallen Blackhair, 47 of Utah, was sentenced to18 months' [...]

TRENTON, N.J. A Brooklyn man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in for conspiring with others in a week-long strongarm extortion scheme in 2019, U.S. [...]

TRENTON, N.J. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey: A Brooklyn man was sentenced today to 84 months in [...]

BROOKLYN, NY -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York: Vincent Ricciardo is the Tenth Defendant Sentenced for Extorting [...]

Byline: Madeleine O'Neill GREENBELT Indicted medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder agreed to represent himself in his federal attempted extortion case Friday, even as he acknowledged in court that the [...]

The Supreme Court of California has ruled in favour of Pakistan's iconic singer Rahat Fateh Ali's former international promoter and arts agent Salman Ahmed against a California-based show promoter in [...]

Byline: The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) A U.S. judge says the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he killed her and disposed of her [...]

Byline: Anumita Kaur A nearly 20-year-old case that captivated the country's attention resurfaced Wednesday when Joran van der Sloot, 36, admitted to beating 18-year-old Natalee Holloway to death on a [...]

Byline: By, Graeme Murray A suspect in the murder of Natalee Holloway is to plead guilty in connection to the extortion case related to the teen's mother. Joran van der [...]

TRENTON, N.J. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey: A Brooklyn man was sentenced today to 121 months in [...]

TOLEDO -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio: U.S. Attorney Becky Lutzko announced that Garrick 'Gary' Johnson, a former [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia: Defendant's Brother Pretended to Be a Mobster as a Part of [...]