Sentence examples for are being extorted from inspiring English sources

Often, they are being extorted for money.

She also has clients who are being extorted into providing sex or money because someone has graphic pictures of them and is threatening to send the images to employers or parents or siblings.

What we see are three vignettes, each tying together sex, shame and violence: an impoverished widow who has an affair, to her son's chagrin; a village girl whose trysts with a soldier are spied on by her father; and a Tamil couple who are being extorted by rebel fighters at the same time that their daughter is going through her first menstruation.

It's not totally clear from the reports if men are being extorted solely because of their sexual orientation, or if the blackmailers are threatening to expose their activity on the apps.

Distorted news reports about the situation are making it difficult to understand what's really happening, but just yesterday nine people were found executed on the side of the road, and even the region's avocado farmers are being extorted.

Kroll then told a story about an American telecommunications company that was being extorted by Turkish hackers in Germany.

-- Anonymous, New York You're being extorted if you tip; he's being exploited if you don't.

The singer's lawyer claims Brown is being extorted by Malcolm Ausbon, who said he was "jumped and beaten" by the star and his entourage.

Yet two investigators -- including a former Federal prosecutor -- suggested that Mr. Pirro had hired them only because he felt he was being extorted in the paternity suit.

The woman said she was being extorted after having sex with Mr. Largue, whom she met online, and telling him about her divorce proceedings.

In 2003, he emerged from testifying in another case in which he was being extorted - the case predated his election as mayor - and took part in a potentially dangerous sting operation.