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

Exact′ment; Exact′ness, quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or, -er, one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights, often too strictly:—fem.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Cleve was very near giving this unconscionable old extortioner a bit of his mind, and ordering him out of the house on the instant.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

She too, perhaps, had hoped to play the part of extortioner.

From The Golden Web by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)