Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins has asked to have his extortion charges dismissed, denying any wrongdoing and arguing that even if the allegations were true, they are insufficient to support ...

A federal grand jury has indicted a 20-year-old St. Amant man on five counts related to child pornography and extortion ...

Thomas Phippard, aka Frank or Frank the Tank, a 47-year-old Toronto resident, was charged with 11 offences that included ...

A police officer and a university student have been freed of extortion and cybercrime charges after a judge ruled there was no evidence linking them to the publication of a sex tape or demands for ...

Find out the common types of cyber extortion, the impacts of these incidents, and how to respond and prevent them in the ...

Maryland state Sen. Dalya Attar, D-Baltimore City, on Tuesday moved to dismiss parts of her indictment for a scheme to blackmail a former campaign consultant. Attar filed a motion to dismiss three of ...

New charges against dozens of defendants, including former and current NBA coaches and players, include conspiring to commit fraud, money laundering, illegal gambling, and extortion. Star names, ...

Sen. Dalya Attar, who represents a part of Baltimore City, was federally indicted, according to court documents unsealed today. She, her brother, Joseph "Yossi" Attar, and Kalman Finkelstein, a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A Huntsville man is behind bars on charges of sexual extortion and electronic solicitation of a child after police say he threatened a Texas teenager on Instagram. Police say ...

NEW YORK -- A former New York state Senate leader and his son were convicted on Tuesday of extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges that they pressured businesses to give the son no-show jobs or else ...

A Tate Township man has been indicted by a grand jury on sexual extortion charges involving a minor, according to the Clermont County Prosecutor's Office.Officials say the Clermont County Grand Jury ...