Sentence examples for to extort about from inspiring English sources

The former banker, Brian Mulligan, contended in the lawsuit that contrary to reports that he tried to assault the officers, the men tried to extort about $3,000 from him on the night of May 15.

The kidnappers had targeted him in an attempt to extort about €5,000,000 from the Bengtsson family.

The kidnappers had targeted him in an attempt to extort about €5 million [$5,511,200 USD] from the Bengtsson family.

Mr. Weldon resigned both posts on Oct. 7 and pleaded guilty three days later to extorting about $70,000 from unnamed developers.

The former director of Paterson's public works projects pleaded guilty in federal court here yesterday to extorting about $7,500 from a vendor who sought to do business with the city.

Someone to extort the extorters.

The lawyer also accused Mr. Benjamin of trying to extort money from Mr. Williams about a month after the shooting.

A deal by the panel probably could have included both measures, but now Republicans are talking about trying to extort a deal, possibly involving the Bush tax cuts, which expire at the end of 2012.

That was enough to obtain court-authorized wiretaps on Mr. Edwards's telephones, and investigators began to pick up information about schemes to extort millions of dollars from businessmen seeking state riverboat casino licenses.

The defense attorney, Sam Adam Jr., told jurors that charges against Mr. Kelly came about because people were trying to extort money from him.

Police said they had been hampered in their investigations by local business owners, who either lied about being the victims of attempts to extort money from them or admitted the extortion but refused to help identify those responsible.