preyed on

David Geffen has been sued by his estranged husband, Donovan Michaels, who says that the billionaire film producer preyed on his vulnerabilities as a young gay Black man from the foster system and trapped him in a manipulative and abusive relationship.

Posts have preyed on fears of neighborhood change, mistrust of government authorities and prejudice against low-income housing to assert, among other things, that the wildfires were set intentionally to raze the Palisades and replace the community with affordable housing.

Although Wen Hou doesn’t know who is behind the possible crimes against his father, he fears that contractors who performed work on Hou’s home at the beginning of the year may have preyed on his father or even kidnapped him.

He said the original reforms would have "essentially preyed on some of those vulnerable within our society".

His 1913 trial led to his conviction despite shoddy evidence and the manipulations of an ambitious prosecuting attorney, who shamelessly preyed on the prejudices of the jury.