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• n  a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them

• THE DEEP END Directed by SCOTT MCGEHEE AND DAVID SIEGEL Finally, a nifty twist: a blackmailer (Goran Visnjic, the hottie from ER) falls in love with his victim (Tilda Swinton).
• After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff.
• In the witness chair in Manhattan's Federal Court sat bland, wily Willie Bioff (pronounced Buy-off), blackmailer, pander, labor leader, and now star Government witness.

• extortioner
• extortionist

News & Articles

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• Thomas George Paculis extortion try: Vultures circling over Paula Deen’s crisis?
  The FBI on Friday arrested an alleged blackmailer in New York, drawing a line on what’s become a national pile-on of former Food Network superstar Paula Deen after she admitted in an April deposition that she had used the word “nigger” in the past.
  July 6, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Mikhail Saakashvili in Civil Georgia
  Russia has doubled gas price for Georgia - decision which lacks any market logic. We have to deal with an unprincipled blackmailer, I can not call it [Russia] otherwise,Saakashvili said.
• Mark Geragos in USA Today
  I've handled 15 or 20 cases in the last 20 years, and all these with one exception were resolved privately - not one case did I ever pay,Geragos says. "You educate (the blackmailer) that what they're doing is a crime. You handle this...