extortion
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Appeared in the May 11, 2026, print edition as 'An Ethanol Extortion Play'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Extortion has emerged as a key theme in the current campaign to elect a successor to Petro in elections starting May 31.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
In April, the Department of Justice created the Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force in a move to prioritize the “disruption, investigation, and prosecution of ransomware and digital extortion activity.”
From The Verge • Dec. 9, 2021
"Private consensual adult conduct is not the law's business. Extortion and defamation are the business of the law."
From Reuters • Oct. 29, 2021
We have a great many people in the Countrey too that live all their dayes in the practice, and so under the guilt of Extortion: people, alas! that think scorn to be so accounted.
From Life and Death of Mr. Badman by Bunyan, John
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