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But Missouri received a total of 158 more reports per every 100,000 people. These reports resulted in $85.8 million in losses, according to the Federal Trade Commission .
Threats against federal judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in recent years, with threats against federal prosecutors rising from 116 to 250 from 2003 to 2008, [50] and threats against federal judges climbing from 500 to 1,278 in that same period, [51] [52] prompting hundreds to get 24-hour protection from armed U.S. marshals.
Sometimes prisoners make such threats to manipulate the system; e.g., a case arose in which an inmate claiming to be "institutionalized" threatened the president in order to stay in prison; there was also a case in which a state prisoner threatened the president because he wanted to go to a federal institution. [51]
Establish notice - the party receiving the threat, and the party making the threat, are "on notice" of the circumstances and cannot later claim they were unaware. Constitute extortion , blackmail , or some other crime or tort involving improper threats of harm: for example, it is considered unethical, and in some cases a crime, to threaten to ...
A jury found the Nixa lawmaker, Missouri Rep. Tricia Derges, guilty on all 22 counts brought against her by federal prosecutors. Missouri lawmaker Tricia Derges found guilty of wire fraud, illegal ...
Brandon Guffey, charged with multiple felonies for stealing from the University of Missouri as the College of Engineering's financial services director, has a plea offer on the table, his attorney ...
A Missouri woman with a long history of small-time scams and fraud was arrested Friday morning on federal charges in connection with a scheme to extort Elvis Presley’s family out of millions and ...
The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States. [3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States. [3]