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> someone who makes a habit of airing their dirty laundry.

It was his livelihood: get some dirt, threaten to release it, demand hefty cash payments as danegeld.

It's easy to pass off the last leg of the extorsion campaign as doing public good if you conveniently leave out the long trail of demands for hefty financial gains.

And before this fact is brushed under the carpet, do keep in mind that the same suspect also demanded financial payments from media companies to access the content he was supposedly trying to release to the public.



Was there more extortion attempts besides the one he's being charged with (Doyen)?




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