Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute Wex entry defining blackmail, used interchangeably with extortion, as intentionally threatening, accusing of a crime, damaging property or exposing secrets to compel payment or another thing of significant value.
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URLhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/blackmail
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Cornell LII Wex: Blackmail
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/blackmail
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Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute
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Blackmail or extortion, which can be used interchangeably, pursuant to the 1942 Illinois Supreme Court opinion in People v. Mahumed, is an unlawful act of one party such as intentionally threatening, accusing of crime, injuring the other party's property, or exposing secrets if the demands from a person or group are not met, in exchange for money or other things that are significantly valuable to them.
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