Sentence examples for extortion from from inspiring English sources

See Lindgren, The Elusive Distinction Between Bribery and Extortion: From the Common Law to the Hobbs Act, 35 UCLA L.Rev.

During festive seasons like Diwali, the demand for fruit increases; so does the extortion from the police and BMC.

Blagojevich's crimes included attempted extortion from campaign contributors, corrupt solicitation of funds, wire fraud and lying to federal investigators.

The Maoists undertook a systematic campaign of extortion from businessmen, aid groups and villagers to fill their coffers.

4-6 (citing Lindgren, The Elusive Distinction Between Bribery and Extortion: From the Common Law to the Hobbs Act, 35 UCLA L.Rev. 815 (1988)).

This mostly involves "express kidnaps", in which the victim is required to hand over all his cash, or extortion from small businesses.

Across the country, they get a lot of cash from taxes, from the profits of pirates, from extortion and from donations by Arabs and Somalis in the diaspora.The attackers have also been gingered up by an old Islamist commander, Hassan Dahir Aweys, recently back from exile in Eritrea.

The two or three of any significance that remain get their money from kidnapping and extortion, not from controlling mining sites or transport routes.

They added that the Japanese increasingly see the yakuza simply as mobsters much like their counterparts in other countries, making money from drugs, gambling and extortion, particularly from their favorite target, Japan's bloated construction industry.

Hugo Ramon Maldonado, vice president for the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Honduras, estimates that 80% of the people emigrating from Honduras are fleeing some sort of criminality or violence, such as extortion threats from gangs or drug traffickers.

"I had 14 extortion letters from these people," Mr. Ochoa said.