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3 unusual facts about Blackmail


Blackmail

David Ormerod said that the offence created by section 40 of the Administration of Justice Act 1970 is related to blackmail.

The word "menaces" was adopted from sections 29(1)(i) and 30 of the Larceny Act 1916.

The Bitter Price of Love

Blackmailing Reba again and again, Hunter made Reba break her engagement and after breaking the engagement she came to know that Eliot was a cheat and was double-dating.


2005–06 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season

Off the pitch there was a scandal involving the directors, shareholders and other interested parties which emerged during the 2005–06 season, following allegations of blackmail and threats of violence against the club's chairman Gianni Paladini, who was allegedly held at gunpoint during a match at Loftus Road by hired thugs at the instigation of rival directors.

Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon

Almina saw this as blackmail and persuaded her new husband to take his ex-wife to court for what Sir Henry McCardie, who tried the case, called "the most bitterly conducted litigation I have ever known".

AMP v Persons Unknown

The decision in the case was published on 10 January 2012, and involved a woman who had experienced blackmail and harassment after sexually explicit pictures of her taken on a mobile phone camera were uploaded to BitTorrent file-sharing websites.

André Glucksmann

As proof of Russia's plans to use energy blackmail, Glucksmann references a biting anti-Gazprom satirical song performed at the annual satirical award show "Silver Rubber Boot", which makes jokes like: If the Eurovision Song Contest denies victory to Russia again, we are going to drive to their concert and block their gas with our bodies!.

Banquet of Chestnuts

In the show, the Banquet is shown to be a trap to blackmail otherwise disloyal members of the College of Cardinals, and is officiated by Giulia Farnese, and witnessed by Burchard who chronicles the debaucheries of the Cardinals while hidden behind a screen.

Billy Mayerl

His song "Miss Up-to-Date" was sung and played by Cyril Ritchard in Alfred Hitchcock's sound film Blackmail (1929).

BitInstant

In September 2012, when presidential candidate Mitt Romney was threatened with blackmail unless he paid an anonymous group $1 million in Bitcoin, BitInstant's Erik Voorhees offered to purchase the Bitcoin for him without a fee.

Charles Théveneau de Morande

Charles Théveneau de Morande (1741–1805) was a gutter journalist, blackmailer and French spy who lived in London in the 18th century.

Darryl Neilson

Darryl sacrificed his kidney for his dying father and desperately tried to separate his mother Marj (Elizabeth McRae) from her lover Laurie (Chic Littlewood) through blackmail.

Evaraina Epudaina

Venkat (Varun Sandesh) is care free guy, he is a smart youngster who looks for people around him who are in love, he blackmail to tell their family and takes money from the couples.

Fantasy Gardens

The site was also used as the primary set of the "Revisions" episode of the TV series Stargate SG-1, the "Irresponsible" episode of Stargate Atlantis, the B&W "Monster Movie" episode of Supernatural and on the episodes "Shadows" and "Blackmail" from Highlander: The Series.

Greenbelt News Review

In 1965, an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Grimbor the Chainsman

Together they captured the Legion of Super-Heroes and attempted to blackmail R. J. Brande, but they ended up foiled by Shrinking Violet.

Hermann Ude

Prior to the German federal election, 2013 in summer, German press reported that Hermann Ude allegedly tried to blackmail Peer Steinbrück, the social-democratic candidate for the German chancellorship.

Jase Dyer

Several months later, Billy's continuous problem rises, (being blackmailed by, Nick Cotton (John Altham), threatening to tell Jay his cowardice).

Jiro Watanabe

After being released in 2004, he was arrested for blackmail along with Kenji Haga, ex-actor, and a yakuza of Yamaguchigumi, on 30 June 2007.

Joseph Grossman

He worked with Alfred Hitchcock on his early films, including Blackmail, Britain's first talkie, and is credited as screenwriter with "The Guns of Loos" 1928 and "The Lady From the Sea", 1929.

Justinas Pranaitis

In 1894 Pranaitis was subject to legal proceedings on a charge of blackmail (for demanding 1000 rubles from a framing workshop in indemnification for a spoilt cheap picture which he claimed to be a picture by Murillo).

Matthew Buchanan

While there, he catches Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) breaking into Clint's office, and turns him over to security, allowing Clint to blackmail Rex into keeping quiet about Clint's abduction of David, and later to blackmail Echo DiSavoy (Kim Zimmer) into keeping quiet about Rex being Clint's son.

Mission to Venice

Somewhere in the Adriatic, a missing H-Bomb triggers a game of global blackmail that Killmaster alone must win.

Motives for spying

Sometimes, traps of this sort may be laid especially to collect blackmail material—Vassall was almost certainly set up, as was Clayton Lonetree, who was blackmailed after an affair with a Soviet agent.

Royal Scandal

The Royal Scandal, a 2001 Sherlock Holmes television movie, starring Matt Frewer, about the blackmail of the King of Bohemia

Salah Shehade

All those bleeding hearts who have the gall to use Mafioso methods of blackmail against fighters – I don't recall that they ever threatened to turn over one of the arch-terrorists, the terrorists who have killed many Israeli civilians, to The Hague.

Santiago Cervera Soto

On 9 December 2012 he was arrested on suspicion of involvement in attempted blackmail of the President of Caja Navarra (CAN), José Antonio Asiaín.

Sarah Dunant

Faced with an Augean stables, Pope Francis chose not to move into the infested area, lending credibility to rumours of sex and blackmail inside the Vatican.

The 65 Lakh Heist

For this purpose, he blackmails into submission an innocent-looking chauffeur called Vimal (whose actual name is Sardar Surender Singh Sohal), a criminal wanted for embezzlement in Allahabad (he didn't do it), murder of Lady Shanta Gokuldas in Bombay (he had to do it to prevent rape and death of a girl), the robbery of gate money at Anna Stadium Madras (he was blackmailed into it).

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

Jealous of his more famous brother, Sigerson teams up with a Scotland Yard records clerk (Feldman) and a would-be opera singer (Kahn) to solve a case that Sherlock is unable to attend to, putting him up against both Moriarty (McKern) and a blackmailer (DeLuise).

The Adventures of Harry Lime

In addition, recordings of the 1952 episodes Man of Mystery, Murder on the Riviera and Blackmail is a Nasty Word are included on the Criterion Collection DVD The Complete Mr. Arkadin.


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