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• n  an exorbitant charge
• n  unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority)
  the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty
• n  the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)

• But the woman who brought the charges -- a friend of the dead starlet -- never testified in court because of a past record of extortion, racketeering and bigamy.
• The club dues, actually a form of extortion, amounted to $1.
• The extortion case has fueled wild speculation about Sypher's allegations.

News & Articles

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• Police arrest owner of moving co. under investigation for extortion
  WWLTV.com Email: webteam@wwltv.com | Twitter: @WWLTV MANDEVILLE, La. - The owner of a Metairie-based moving company that was under investigation for extortion was arrested, according to the Mandeville Police Department. Dunwoodie McDuffie, 45, was behind bars on Wednesday morning and police expected to make more arrests in the case. He was booked with extortion and unauthorized use of a ...
  June 19, 2013 - WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans
• 10 suspects arrested in Juárez extortion case
  Chihuahua state investigators have arrested the alleged members of an extortion gang suspected of demanding weekly payments from more than 300 Juárez businesses during the past five years, officials said.
  June 19, 2013 - El Paso Times
• Chihuahua state investigators arrest members of Juárez extortion gang
  Chihuahua state investigators have arrested the members of an extortion gang suspected of demanding weekly payments from more than 300 Juárez businesses during the last five years, officials said.
  June 19, 2013 - El Paso Times

Quotes

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• Eugenio Hernández Flores in Victoria Advocate
  There are thousands of producers who work all year to harvest the fruits of their labor and it is the only income they have for the year, so we have to prevent extortion,said Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernandez Flores during a meeting with a...
• Michele Bachmann in The Associated Press
  In it, she quotes Rep. Michele Bachmann as saying calls for BP to pay cleanup costs amounted to "extortion ...... She has said, 'If I was the head of BP I would let the signal get out there, we're not going to be chumps,'" Clark says of her...
• Ginny Brown-Waite in Forbes
  We have a gun to our head,said Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., who opposed the bill. "This isn't legislation - it's extortion."