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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:46PM (#35393395)
> “criminal blackmail excludes legal process,”

They're saying that "If you don't pay me $X, I'll tell your wife I slept with you" is not illegal, so it doesn't constitute criminal blackmail.

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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by singleshot_ on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:09PM (#35393695)
I’d probably run that assertion by a lawyer before I lived by it.
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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by belorn on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:33AM (#35401070)
Pay me or I will ruin your reputation is very much blackmail. Investigative journalism would become potentially extremely profitable if it wasn't.
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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by HeyLaughingBoy on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:39AM (#35411684)
Of course it's blackmail. The question is if it's criminal or not.
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Re:Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump by singleshot_ on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:05PM (#35428561)
Blackmail is a crime, so this would be a pretty safe bet.
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