Sentence examples for straightforward extortion from inspiring English sources

The hack is pretty well documented and it appears evident that the end result was fairly straightforward extortion.

Stolen artefacts make up a significant stream of the group's estimated multi-million dollar revenues, along with oil sales and straightforward taxation and extortion.

"The Discreet Hero," an energetic book with a more straightforward narrative method than almost any other Vargas Llosa novel, centers on an extortion plot against the self-made owner of a local transport company, a good man who refuses to pay, and whose son and mistress may be in on the crime.

or extortion.

Sounds more like extortion.

Official extortion erodes trust.

Extortion, the team said.

There's no extortion.

The extortion stopped.

My husband calls it extortion".

Thefts and extortion are rampant.