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No, not unless in so keeping the secret a secret, you were adding to your own original crime.

Listen - see an attorney, and tell him the secret. I can assure you that short of a dead body lying around, you are unlikely to get in as much trouble as the blackmailer has you believing. And if this is some marital thing, like cheating, then just come clean with your partner. Better they hear it from you then another.

Then you've no more worries about blackmail.

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