Sentence examples for Under extortion from inspiring English sources
Rather than write another check, it states, "On or about 21 December 19 , 2014 Mr. Goguen sent a letter to Ms. Baptiste refusing to make the second payment, purporting to rescind the contract, and claiming the Settlement Agreement was null and void as procured under extortion".
The family of a former Jewish art collector is demanding the restitution of a Gustav Klimt masterpiece that it claims was acquired by Austria after World War II under extortion.
As Michael Walzer explains, we regulate theft and extortion on individual levels but there are forms of market behavior which fall under extortion or theft (such as the ability of big business to unfairly influence the price of the goods they sell) which are not regulated or not regulated well enough.
Mr. Betts pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with interstate commerce by means of extortion under color of official right.
Given the text of the statute and the rule of lenity, I believe that inducement is an element of official extortion under the Hobbs Act.
At least one commentator has argued that at common law, extortion under color of official right could also be committed by a private individual.
Evans was convicted in the District Court of, among other things, extortion under the Hobbs Act, which is "the obtaining of property from another,..
Because Catiline was then under prosecution for extortion, a charge of which he was eventually acquitted, he could not stand for the consular elections of 65 or 64.
The charges in the complaint included bribery, extortion under color of official right, and wire fraud and honest services fraud conspiracies.
It charges Mr. Silver with honest services mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud, extortion "under the color of law" — using his official position to commit extortion — and extortion conspiracy.
The clerk, Louis March, 38, was charged in a criminal complaint by the F.B.I. with extortion under the color of official right, said Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney.
