extortioner

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In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication.

From Time Magazine Archive

If, on the other hand, the bondholder can legally demand only the kind of money he paid, he is a repudiator and an extortioner to demand money more valuable than he gave.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

Had he been frank, I might have broken the extortioner, but he was not frank.

From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold

If the mamálacha be received, the case is hopeless; and indeed the custom of the country requires that the extortioner should be never met with a negative.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis