Porn Star Tells 9th Circ. $1.5M Tweet Threat Not Extortion

By Bonnie Eslinger (June 8, 2017, 10:20 PM EDT) -- Counsel for a gay porn actor imprisoned for extorting $1.5 million from telecom mogul Donald Burns argued Thursday to a skeptical Ninth Circuit that his client's threat to leave an embarrassing post on Twitter unless he was paid off wasn't illegal because the harm was already done by the time he solicited money....

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