It was all UNNECESSARY, if only FBAR compliance, and not penalty extortion, the main objective.
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This case is not the first involving cyber-extortion: Think back to the DDoS extortion threats made against website operators that were common in the early part of the decade.
For years Silicon Valley worried that Myhrvold's IV would become a giant patent troll, a secretive extortion vehicle that would not produce anything but would assert its patent hoard in a barrage of licensing schemes and expensive lawsuits.
The virus amounted to "digital extortion" and victims should not pay up, said German police.
But Selna accepted Monex's argument that the Gilliams were engaged not in protected activities but in unprotected attempted extortion.
The world at large is not America, and we can't bust every extortion racket in it (though we can bust a few).
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They are advised that if they receive an extortion threat, they should report the matter and not negotiate.
"The Mexican authorities need to ascertain whether or not any state officials ... were complicit with the criminal organisation that carried out the abductions and extortion, both in this and other cases, " she added.
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Selna ruled the Gilliams could not show they had an actual, good faith intention to sue--which might negate the attempted extortion claim--especially after Jason admitted he got most of the 234 names from an internal Monex document and had not spoken to them.
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