Sentence examples for extortion going on from inspiring English sources

Although the company's name is a registered trademark, Ms. Zelenko said, it took seven months and more than $1,200 in legal fees to have the name transferred back to her. "There is a form of extortion going on," she said.

We walked along, unbothered by the blatant and patently criminal extortion going on back in D.C., and each bend of the trail brought some stunning new vista that was even more gorgeous than what we'd just seen.

The extortion went on for months, until the agent was apparently killed in combat.

So what's really going on is extortion pure and simple.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: "Issues in my personal life – including the extortion that went on for more than a year – absolutely had an impact.

One alderman was convicted this week on 15 counts of racketeering and extortion; another will go on trial soon; two pleaded guilty last year.

Yes, Whitey was as corrupt as they come: murder, extortion, racketeering... the list goes on.

In another, unrelated corruption case next week, a city politician, Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, a Bronx Democrat, goes on trial in the same court on charges of money laundering, extortion and fraud.

— A former Pennsylvania judge went on trial in federal court on Tuesday, charged with racketeering, bribery and extortion in what prosecutors say was a $2.8 million scheme to send juvenile delinquents to privately run prisons.

Eleven members and former members of Scientology Belgium have gone on trial in Brussels, accused of fraud, practicing illegal medicine, violating privacy laws, extortion and "running a criminal organization," according to the prosecutor.

This went on from the late 1950s into the early 1960s before Karafin was exposed in 1967 and convicted of extortion a year later.