Clarion Content

The Clarion Content happened to see a report about a blackmail~extortion case in Australia. A marina worker who successfully extorted $45,000 from former Aussie cricketing great, Craig McDermott, threatening to put sex tapes of him and his wife on the internet, was sentenced to at least 18 months behind bars. For eight months the criminal promised the millionaire property developer and former cricket star that it was the final payment and that he would turn over the, "tapes of you and your missus." The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the criminal obtained, "the two video tapes from a friend, who worked at the Gold Coast marina where Mr. McDermott kept his boat." (A marina worker who was probably smart enough to know blackmail didn't pay, but not smart enough not to give the tapes to his criminally moronic friend.) When McDermott finally got the cops involved, they busted the con man trying to pick up a further $10 large in hush money.

Bonus pseudo-blackmail link from Greenwood, Indiana.

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