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

Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

It vexed him to think of submitting to the avarice of that wicked old extortioner; but to that submission, reluctant as he is, it seems probable he will come.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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