In testimony about five casino licensing extortion schemes, the prosecution has portrayed the 72-year-old Mr. Edwards as relentlessly, reflexively, almost pathologically corrupt.
Because Catiline was then under prosecution for extortion, a charge of which he was eventually acquitted, he could not stand for the consular elections of 65 or 64.
Foreign direct investment is also checked by overseas businesses fearing extortion or exposure to prosecution under the US's stringently enforced Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
In practice, although prosecution is rare yet extortion and harassment of families are frequent [15].
Since Ms. Brandstetter's case, it has been clear in Illinois (and eventually in the federal courts too) that, notwithstanding the First Amendment protections the Supreme Court has applied to political contributions, prosecutions for bribery and extortion may be brought when a donation is tied directly to a specific act by an elected official.
The defense and the prosecution in the bank fraud and extortion trial of a Hudson County businessman agreed in their opening statements on Thursday that the case hinged largely on reams of complex paperwork and "bloodless bookkeeping".
While low-level gangsters are occasionally charged with single counts of extortion, racketeering or intimidation, it is rare for prosecutions to target high-level crime figures or move beyond these perfunctory charges, especially in light of how ubiquitous Indian organized crime is within Bollywood.
Hereafter, for purposes of Hobbs Act prosecutions, such bribery was to be called extortion.
On Wednesday, the prosecution introduced evidence intended to link Mr. Muhammad to the extortion demands.
And their battle royale promises to define not just their parental rights, but also the reputation of each, their possible exposure to prosecution — he on a battering complaint, she on an extortion accusation — and the limits to which a judicial system can be stretched to accommodate that ever-expanding beast, celebrity.
Little came out in Arum's testimony that had not already been made public in affidavits filed in a civil suit that accompanies the government's criminal prosecution of top officials at the International Boxing Federation on bribery and extortion charges.
