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news.yahoo.com
Tremain Albright has spent more than $14,000 building and renovating a treehouse along the Kootenai River in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the house must be torn down or the city could lose more than $128,000 in federal funding.
Extortion is a criminal offence whereby an individual obtains money, goods and services, or desired behavior from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, property, or reputation. Extortion is a different criminal offense than robbery, whereby an offender steals property through force. Instead, the property gained though extortion is handed over to avoid threatened force or other harm. Extortion involves the victim's consent, but the way in which it is gained is unlawful, and therefore the entire act is considered a crime.
By extortion. A person obtains property by extortion when he compels or induces another person to deliver such property to himself or to a third person by means of instilling in him a fear that, if the property is not so delivered, the actor or another will:
1. Cause physical injury to some person in the future; or
2. Cause damage to property; or...
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
This is no ordinary treehouse, it's actually a guest room built with approval by the same authority who is now saying it needs to come down or else the community stands to lose fed funding...
Be sure to check out the news clip as well as reading the article..
news.yahoo.com
Tremain Albright has spent more than $14,000 building and renovating a treehouse along the Kootenai River in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But the Army Corps of Engineers says the house must be torn down or the city could lose more than $128,000 in federal funding.
This couple went through proper channels before investing in this, I think it would be fair for the Feds to reimburse them for their loss, if it does indeed need to go, since it was approved by them in the first place.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
reply to post by flyswatter
They received permission from 6 different offices of the Corps of Engineers, according to the folks who built it..
That info is from the news clip