Sentence examples for in extorting from inspiring English sources

(The disorganizing effect of sleep deprivation has been exploited in extorting confessions from prisoners).

At that meeting Baranov made a second stunning revelation: that some IAAF officials were involved in extorting money.

Irish police, however, believe he was himself directly responsible for two murders and was involved in extorting drug gangs in Dublin as well as innocent pub owners, according to The Belfast Telegraph.

The former head of the Russian track federation was also accused of a role in extorting €450,000 (£365,000) from a marathon runner and was later banned for life.

In 1989, when William Bulger was under federal investigation for possible involvement in extorting $500,000 from a real estate developer, Mr. Connolly tried to dissuade the assistant United States attorney prosecuting the case from looking into Mr. Bulger, the official testified during Mr. Connolly's trial.

Arvind Verma, an authority on policing in India, states that "Misuse of force, false-encounter killings (execution by police) and routine use of torture in extorting confessions are common with the police departments" (Verma 2011: 5).

Many organized crime groups operate in Tepito, extorting merchants, kidnapping residents and trafficking in anything from arms to women.

But they have long specialized in labor rackets: extorting contractors in exchange for labor peace, or replacing unionized employees with nonunion workers and then spiriting away savings on wages or fringe benefits.

A Democratic Party fund-raiser pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud in connection with extorting payoffs from a landowner in exchange for promises of help in settling a dispute with state officials.

He was, in fact, convicted in 1991 of extorting money from developers while he was mayor of Hialeah.

Three days after resigning as mayor of Ocean Township, Terrance D. Weldon pleaded guilty today in federal court to extorting nearly $70,000 in bribes from developers in exchange for successfully shepherding their projects through the approval process.