Sentence examples for start extorting from inspiring English sources

Its monopoly had become so vast, the group had the weight to start extorting supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, charging them 50 cents for every box of fruit and vegetables.

Enterprising racketeers started extorting protection money from port operators, bringing in the shadow of the underworld.

Irlando had worked as a commercial truck driver in a town north of Guatemala City and fled his homeland after a local gang started extorting his company.

"And then we start to extort or exploit or indenture your labor".

With so much private information now available on hacker forums, more garden-variety criminals may be tempted to start buying this information and extorting its owners.

"I started blogging because of the way the Ukraine police were targeting African students – harassing them and extorting money from them if they were not carrying their passport," he says.

Within months of the group's founding, a member who had started a small garage was gunned down for refusing to pay a local thug who was extorting him.

"I knew I wasn't extorting anybody".

Pandilleros were regularly extorting him.

Criminal groups are extorting and kidnapping almost at will.

He's the person who is extorting individuals, murdering individuals".