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Sanctioned extortion every day when they aspirin out a complaint, say to a prospective defendant if we dont settle this by tomorrow im filing this document in court. youre not saying hey im going ruin you. youre not going to say ill announce to the world youre a bad person. youre instead saying i have a legal right to file a lawsuit and ill do that unless we settle. thats allowed. if michael avenatti did those minor different things -- he didnt do that. he would have been immunized from this ext...

Violated conduct. in december ami signed the agreement in exchange for providing information in its role in a payment to play boy model, karen mcdougal, who claims she had an affair with trump prior to his presidency, which trump denies. they stipulated ami should commit no crime whatsoever and should ami commit any crime consent to the date of signing this mounted a agreement, they shall photographer be subject to prosecution. glen, your area here. it seems at minimum it should say you dont com...

>> thats probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. >> thats all right. well, first off, yes, it looks like theres possibly an extortion charge. but its complicated by the agreement. the agreement says not only can you not commit any other crimes but guess what, when we ask you questions, you have to answer them. and when we ask you for documents, you have to give them. when we tell you to come to a meeting, you have to be there. and if this whole thing blows up, everything you told...

With us for a hot second while we talk about this story. dual question for you. could you have charged this case for extortion, blackmail against ami, absent the cooperation agreement, in the clear and do you see a charge in light of the cooperation agreement? >> thats probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. >> first it looks like theres possibly an extortion charge, but its complicated by the agreement which says not only can you not commit any other crimes, but when we ask you ...

Agreement, in the clear and do you see a charge in light of the cooperation agreement. >> thats probably not just a dual question. >> sorry about that. first it looks like theres possibly an extortion charge, but its complicated by the agreement which says not only can you not commit any other crimes, but when we ask you questions, you have to answer them. and when we ask you for documents, you have to give them. when we tell you to come to a meeting, you have to be there. and if this whole thin...

Apparently allowed a contract with cohen and essential consultants to lapse early in 2018 because canceling it might have caused anger. this is according to reports quoting an unnamed insider. if these claims are proven, would extortion charges be a possibility? >> you know, i see the angle there. i dont think, you know, just the sort of unmitigated fear is enough to get to an extortion charge at this time. now, thats not to say that there arent many, many facts that were not aware of. look, i a...

Have not yet seen corroboration for her claim. i dont know sitting here right now whether they have that, but if they do or if -- if other investigators like mueller or other prosecutors have in some other way found corroboration. it is not up to the victim to provide corroboration. a victim of a threat -- it is up to the investigators. so te may have it, they may not. if they do, that is an extraordinary serious charge that could be charged as a state or even potentially federal extortion charg...

Charging denny hastert with any kind of sex crime, but the feds told cnn this does have to do with sex, that allegations against him with regard to the money he took out in chunks to pay to individual a had to do with sex, with a palmale, he kn when he was teacher. with that in mind why would there not be a extortion charge? >> that is a good question and the answer is be, prosecutors have an overwhelming amount of discretion and the discretion is and backing up a little bit, understanding that ...

Fluid on the fire raising hopes in the family, raising expectations that well get answers some day. >> and van der sloot is serving a prison sentence for the murder of stephany flores. as i understand it hell be behind bars for almost three decades before hes brought to the u.s. to face charges against natalees mom? >> he has 28 years in peru. there is a hold on him when he completes that sentence, hell be coming to alabama to face another 20 year wire fraud and extortion charge. and i think may...

These pictures down. its a little bit -- >> you mentioned the boyfriends. what about those guys the people who posted the pictures the ex-husbands, should they be held liable for their actions? >> now theres a law on the books in california for revenge porn. its poorly written, because theres a lot of loopholes in it. one are if the woman or the man, its mostly women, that are the ones that are affected but if the woman or the man take pictures of themselves send it to their significant others a...