She was charged with grand larceny and aggravated harassment after she was accused of extorting $6,000 from Cashman.
Groups such as the Richardsons, who were based in south London, and the Krays, in east London, mostly made their money extorting from local businesses and petty criminals.
In Sarobi, on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul, a checkpoint notorious in pre-Taliban days for extorting money from travellers has reportedly been re-established.
The Malaysians were miffed at General Surayud's claim that funds were being raised for the insurgency by extorting money from restaurants selling Thai tom yum kung soup in Malaysia.Mr Thaksin dismissed the separatists as "bandits" and tried to crush them by military force.
We encountered only one serious attempt to extort money at a subsequent checkpoint, and that was quickly resolved by a yoghurt-coated cereal bar.A week earlier, a Lagos policeman caught extorting money on camera was sacked.
Extorting money from rich firms was never going to be a long-term earner.
Ms Xu still has the pile of cigarette stubs they left on the floor.Mr Wu, who is 40, was found guilty in August of extorting money from an environmental-equipment manufacturer by threatening to inform the authorities that products supplied to a steel company were substandard.
Nigeria's police are well known for extorting bribes from drivers at checkpoints and for their heavy-handed treatment of suspected criminals.
In provincial towns they and those like them are extorting money from businesses, buying off local police and other officials, and chasing out of town those who might support President Boris Trajkovski and others trying to build peace.
But power can also be a means of extorting sexual and other favours.
Many deaths result from clashes between rival gangs over the lucrative businesses of extorting money out of fellow inmates and trafficking drugs and weapons into jail.
