"Hey, can you switch instances? Your admin favorited a joke that I didn't appreciate once. Might need to block you otherwise. Oh, and that crowdfunding platform you use? Back in 2006 they let an organization I don't personally align with use their platform. You should abandon that. Also, -"
Shhhh. Let people enjoy things. I am all for being socially conscious but we can't boycott everything. We are so tired. Please go outside.
@Pat
Indictment of $$$$$-aires.
Morning rant.
As with ANY multi-$$$$$$-aire, the law of the peons does not apply to the elite.
If found guilty, he should be penalized without any possibility of paying his way out.
Prison ? Yes. Loss of privileges. Certainly !
Painful retribution. Anything the thief must endure.
Mug shots, booking photos !
Hell yes. If you choose the criminal garb, wear it.
"If you can't do the time don't don't do the crime."
If she directly threatened to make it public unless he paid her, then that's blackmail.
The way these things are usually worked out is that the woman shops her story around to tabloids in a manner so that the target will learn of it. Then the tabloid buys the exclusive rights to the story and it becomes an intellectual property deal and the tabloid then works it out with the target (like selling the rights to them). That's how they usually avoid blackmail law.
That's how Trump did it with another woman, Karen McDougal. (Maybe that's where the whole "Karen" meme started?)
A similar thing happened to David Letterman a couple of decades ago. A boyfriend of his mistress wrote a screenplay about a famous TV personality who had a mistress that exactly paralleled Letterman's situation. He then tried to sell the screenplay directly to Letterman.
Letterman turned the guy into the cops rather than paying the blackmail money and the story was made public.