"extort them" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to obtain something by force or threats. You can use it when describing a situation where someone is manipulating or pressuring another person to give them something they want. Example: The corrupt police officer was caught trying to extort money from innocent citizens by threatening to arrest them if they didn't comply.
They are routinely targeted with violence when performing at events, and local police extort them.
Migrants are preyed upon by criminal gangs and corrupt officials, who try to extort them for cash or sex.
If agreements backed by credible threats were not enforceable, the threatening party would not extort them and would instead refrain from dealing to the threatened party's detriment.
It began its expansion to offset losses it suffered in Palermo after its owners, the Conticello brothers, fingered the mobsters who had tried to extort them.
A lot of money flows through such casinos, making tempting targets for organized crime groups, which extort them or launder money through them, the analysts said.
The owners, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, had angrily decried the charges as an attempt to extort them into paying a giant settlement, one that might have forced them to sell the Mets, one of baseball's most valuable franchises.
"Did you know you were extorting them when you made these demands?" Selna asked.
'This now overlaps with the narco war, using the same routes as the people smugglers, the Coyotes, and extorting them,' he says.
Most ordinary Chechens say the army has become an equally grave threat, kidnapping and killing innocent citizens in dark-of-night raids and extorting them by daylight, and Mr. Putin admitted such military abuses in a speech to Chechens last week.
Witnesses described groups of thugs descending by the vanload into villages to round up pregnant women or couples who had "over-birthed". The authorities were forcing women out of hiding by holding family, friends and neighbors in prison-like conditions for days or weeks, extorting them for cash or beating them until the fugitives revealed themselves.
Companies and their defense attorneys complain that the government extorts them out of unreasonable sums because they have no choice but to negotiate, while the public feels companies are not held accountable, punished only by being compelled to write checks that have little effect on their bottom line.
