hands down the FUNNIEST DAMN EXTORTION PLOT i ever heard detailed..
When Jackson asked what he sought for the photos and recordings, Shaw replied, “I want to be made whole.” Shaw, who claimed to have found the compromising material in a storage locker he had purchased for $3500,
said he wanted money to fix his teeth and get his car out of an impound lot.
After refusing Shaw’s request to accompany him to the lot (or anywhere else), Jackson eventually gave Shaw $5000 in cash “in exchange for the folder with the photographs and the CD.” Jackson, seen at left, subsequently destroyed the incriminating material.
Shaw is a former Memphis resident who now lives in Atlanta (as does Adams). He spent several years in prison for a 1996 aggravated robbery conviction, records show. In 2005, he was arrested in Georgia for murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and kidnapping, “though the case was ultimately dismissed,” according to Agent Alvarez.
An FBI review of text messages exchanged by the alleged extortionists revealed that on April 3, the day Jackson handed over the $5000, Adams sent Shaw a message stating, “Concentrate and **** him up! he is a Fake ass man of god,” an apparent reference to Jackson’s work as a ordained minister.
Later that day, Shaw texted Adams to report, “
This ***** left me some tickets smh.”
The concluding acronym, as pointed out by the FBI, “is a common shorthand for ‘shaking my head,’ indicating disgust or disappointment.” The text from Shaw included a photo of “two tickets to a basketball game between the Golden State Warriors and the Memphis Grizzlies that took place at 7:00 PM on April 3, 2012,” according to the FBI affidavit.
MARK JACKSON initially gave the "extorter" some BASKETBALL TICKETS an kept it moving