If you aren’t familiar with yakuza, you may not understand ‘The Sokaiya are coming, the Sokaiya are coming,’ from above.
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The yakuza also make millions of dollars a year through corporate extortion, and the sokaiya (shareholders’ meeting men) are the masters of this enterprise. Sokaiya will buy a small number of shares in a company so that they can attend shareholders’ meetings. In preparation for the meeting, the sokaiya gather damaging information about the company and its officers; secret mistresses, tax evasion, unsafe factory conditions, and pollution are all fodder for the sokaiya. They will then contact the company’s management and threaten to disclose whatever embarrassing information they have at the shareholders’ meeting unless they are “compensated.” If management does not give in to their demands, the sokaiya go to the shareholders’ meeting and raise hell, shouting down anyone who dares to speak, making a boisterous display of their presence, and shouting out their damaging revelations. In Japan, where people fear embarrassment and shame much more than physical threats, executives usually give the sokaiya whatever they want.
My references are all from this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1584360/posts
New York Mob Indictment Charges 32 People
More posts there on the thread that explain the organized crime aspects.
Wow. This sounds like a racket out of the Clinton-New Demonrat playbook. And you say Chelsea works for a hedge fund. That would give her access to lots of information. Hmmm....