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This means the agency will no longer extort defendants into silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

There in Africa, smugglers link up with al Qaeda-affiliated groups that escort the cargoes north and extort payments from the overland convoys, said current and former rebel leaders in northern Mali.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

DragonForce want the BBC to report the hack - they are apparently trying to extort the company for money.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

They can certainly extort a painful price from the world while trying to, and the full reckoning may be more than we can bear.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

But again he didn’t comply, evidently determined to extort money and obstruct justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021

This means, for example, that a U.S. senator who extorts money is no more immune to being charged with this crime than an ordinary American.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2017

The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017

“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015

Lo here the impost of a faith entire, That love doth pay, and her disdain extorts; Behold the message of a chaste desire That tells the world how much my grief imports.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

At her final campaign rallies, Fujimori declared "war" on extortionists, promising to deploy the military against organised crime, control prisons, and work with financial institutions to block extorted money.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

The court found that the girl’s mother extorted thousands of dollars from Franco.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

He has effectively extorted $1 billion in free legal services from law firms based on baseless legal claims and tens of millions of dollars from media companies based on wholly meritless lawsuits.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

The relationships, Canter said, make Ernst vulnerable to being extorted if people learned of them and could give someone undue influence over her.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

These are so distinguished for their admirable wit, their keen argument, and their exquisite beauty of style, as to have even extorted praise from Voltaire and D'Alembert.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous

But her political career ended when her husband, Bill Collins, a dentist and businessman, was convicted in 1993 of extorting money from people who had business before the state while his wife was governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Lawyers for the men accused of extorting Wang are now pushing back against the government’s portrayal of Wang, alleging he lied to U.S. authorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024

It is unusual for hackers to claim they are "Russian hacktivists" with an ethical agenda - most cyber criminals, including those in Russia, aim to make money by extorting their victims.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

Cohen acknowledged once telling a prosecutor he felt that Daniels and her lawyer were extorting Trump.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

“You would think,” Skarpi’s voice rolled out like thick honey, “fine churchmen such as yourselves could find better things to do than arresting storytellers and extorting money from honest men.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss