Women's rights organisations Yad La'isha and Mavoi Satum put the global figure of female agunot in the thousands, claiming that many more Jewish women suffer from custodial and financial extortion by their husbands in order to obtain a divorce.
In order to constitute extortion, the law requires evidence of a threat which instills fear in the person threatened.
Recently, Mexico attempted to register all cellphone users in order to counter telephone extortion rackets, but the personal data, which was to be held confidentially, was soon available for purchase at a Mexico City flea market.
He frequented meeting places of the ordinary people in order to learn of extortion and oppression on the part of his officials; his punishment of corrupt officials was swift.
In order to avoid any scenarios involving extortion, Beach put up $350,000 of his own money to bankroll the project, thinking that once the public saw the completed work, the politicians would not dare to stop him.
The standoff began on Monday morning when a former police officer, Rolando Mendoza, 55, seized a tourist bus carrying 25 people in order to protest his dismissal last year on extortion charges.
They use extortion, obstruction, and threats of tearing apart the social fabric in order to attain their maximum goals.
"This was four men threatening to cause harm to the Top Chef show in order to get wages, jobs and that is extortion.
Moreover, the 1961 case that it cites, State v. Begyn, 34 N.J. 35, 46, 167 A.2d 166, 166, in which a sanitary inspector was charged with extortion for accepting payments by a scavenger who held a garbage removal contract and who made payments in order to ensure the continuation of the contract, merely supports the proposition that extortion was not limited to the overpayment of fees.
So Smithfield has filed a racketeering lawsuit against the union, on the theory that speaking out about labor, environmental and safety issues in order to pressure the company to unionize amounts to extortion like that used by organized crime.
