shakedown

The producer’s legal team quickly denied the allegations last October and dismissed the complaint as a “pure shakedown.”

He called the lawsuit “a shakedown for money.”

He wondered, “How can we mount a voice of protest to this proposed shakedown of the university in the name of protecting Jews?”

And when a San Fernando Valley anti-gang squad was accused in 2023 of covering up shakedowns of motorists, in swooped the Reaper again.

“This is so transparently an abuse of power — a shakedown,” Stern said.