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Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Natalee Holloway's mother, as he serves a sentence for an unrelated 2010 murder in Peru.

A federal judge Monday set a May 6 trial date for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife Nadine. The pair was indicted last month on federal bribery, fraud and extortion charges. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein scheduled the jury trial for May 6 to allow prosecutors time to hand over evidence to Menendez, according to…

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) postponed his annual Hispanic Heritage Month event, which was slated to take place just two days after the New Jersey lawmaker was indicted on federal bribery, fraud and extortion charges. An announcement posted to the website of Union High School in New Jersey said the 13th Annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration was postponed without…

Connections to militant outfits were suspected as arms and camouflage jackets were recovered from their possession

We might even grant you immunity for the extortion charges if you come clean with everything that you know that happened to that beautiful innocent young woman in 2005 when she was last seen walking out of a club with you, and since then -- they didn't -- she disappeared literally without a trace. they haven't found an eye lash of this poor girl. so he -- he knows the answers. >> john: do you real think the family would trade immunity for information? >> well, look. at this point, if he were going to serve the rest of his life or a long portion of his life in a peruvian prison and they got the...