Sentence examples for system of extortion from inspiring English sources

Their Rackets Bureau looked in the Fire Department for 2 years and finally arrested and convicted Moran, the mastermind of a system of extortion.

In response they devise a pervasive and brutal system of extortion of slum residents that generates a lot more money and involves powerful politicians.

His brother and close confidant, Ngo Dinh Nhu, controlled an extensive system of extortion, payoffs, and influence peddling through a secret network called the Can Lao, which had clandestine members in all government bureaus and military units as well as schools, newspapers, and businesses.

The healthcare system has become little more than a system of extortion, and the labor/capital ratio has been badly skewed by the introduction of huge new labor pools in Asia.

Álvaro García Linera, the vice-president, has accused the farmers of practising "gangster-like systems of extortion, based on commercial, mercantile and political coercion".

As John Broder and Don Van Natta Jr. reported in yesterday's Times, corporate donors and lobbyists play the money game at both conventions in what Senator Russell Feingold calls a "system of legalized extortion and legalized bribery".

Decaying Michailopol suffers from corrosive post-Soviet corruption: it is impossible to escape the interwoven system of "kickbacks, bribes, extortion, and larceny".

In the eighteen-eighties, according to the historian John Dickie, gangs of inmates known as picciotti emerged from the region's prisons and began enforcing a system of intimidation and extortion that quickly dominated the local economy.

But they too have been implicated in human rights abuses and what Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch, called "the whole system of bribes, threats, extortion, privileges and surveillance by which this government has preserved and accumulated power".

Mr. Feingold called it "a system of legalized bribery and legalized extortion".

The scope given to the offense of extortion in a particular legal system is determined partly by the content of the related offense of robbery.