> “I had terrible customers in the Palm Beach area, Manly area, Bondi. They asked me to cut trees on the water, on public land. They told me, ‘just come at nigh

> “I had terrible customers in the Palm Beach area, Manly area, Bondi. They asked me to cut trees on the water, on public land. They told me, ‘just come at night, drop it’,” he says. The people who can name names and testify... could retire from tree labor, by pivoting to blackmail? > James says clients often tell him “name your price” and he says some job offers have been worth up to $15,000. [...] James suspects a tree lopper would charge at least $20,000 for a big, risky job like the one at Castle Cove. Then again, they already know that these particular rich people are comfortable hiring lower-class people to illegally remove annoyances. So blackmail of any single party might be capped well below the going market rate for removal of a blackmailer?