extort

ShinyHunters first demanded that the bureau amend a public service announcement accusing the group of using “harassment strategies” and “pressure tactics” to extort victims.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

He said he did not attempt to extort from union officials, or assault or threaten female labor leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Instructure, the maker of Canvas, has now confirmed it has "reached an agreement" with the hackers, who have said they deleted the data and promised not to extort any students or institutions.

From BBC ● May 12, 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

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

“Here you have someone trying to lawfully work and support their families, and then someone turns around and extorts them,” Erzen said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2017

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

He extorts, somewhat violently, a meaning from Homer's words, δεινὼ δἐ εἱ ἔσσε φἁανθην, which they by no means necessarily bear; but the analogy is as curious if Egyptian as if Grecian.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

After $1.7 million in payments, prosecutors said Hastert stopped giving the man money in late 2014 after authorities, aware of suspicious bank withdrawals, approached the former speaker to investigate whether he was being extorted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Baker said a “critical question” a jury would have to decide was whether Evling had extorted the money or had simply received and kept it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

For one thing he urged that the price extorted from the English archbishops for the pallium was too high.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson

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

He denied threatening or extorting anyone, the detective said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

They alleged that Church leaders were extorting monthly payments and micro-managing dioceses that used to enjoy operational autonomy.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

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