Sentence examples for extort cash from inspiring English sources
It cited numerous other examples of police demanding bribes, or making false arrests in order to extort cash from the victim.
A key aim of the threats to top stars is boosting the gangsters' credibility when trying to extort cash from less well-known – but often wealthier – targets.
Guards or militia members call the migrants' families to extort cash — if they pay, the migrant is released and put back on a boat to Europe.
The two, Nick and Paul Maddalone, who are brothers, pleaded guilty in September to participating in a decades-long scheme to extort cash from the owners of bus companies.
WannaCry's attempt to extort cash in return for unlocking encrypted files has only drummed up $80,000 at the time of writing probably because Bitcoin, the currency WannaCry's perpetrators are demanding, is hard to use.
They make money by extorting cash from local businesses and selling drugs through the Jamaican diaspora in New York, London and Toronto.
This contrivance used to be dominated by yakuza criminal gangs, which extorted cash from the parlours' owners.
The investigators accuse Karimova of demanding percentages of companies and extorting cash for her "personal services and lobbying efforts".
This had turned into a billion-pound-a-year industry with a lot of unscrupulous operators almost extorting cash out of unsuspecting drivers.
In addition, many migrants are being kept in camps where smugglers hold them for months while extorting cash from their families.
