Minneapolis lawyer Paul Hansmeier has pleaded guilty to a scheme in which he and another lawyer made porn films, seeded them to BitTorrent websites, and then extorted those who downloaded them, threatening to file lawsuits unless they paid $3,000 to keep from the embarrassment of getting dragged through court. Hansmeier, along with co-defendant and fellow attorney John Steele, were the masterminds behind a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme carried out by their Prenda Law firm.

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