Word: blackmailing
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...invoked the Fifth Amendment . . . Not one has been dismissed.
Fourteen have been reinstated, four with full clearances."
...Tried to blackmail...
...Army try to "blackmail" McCarthy out of his investigations by publishing its report on the Schine case...
...been called "a sunny place for shady people." Propertied residents, concerned over real-estate values, try to keep the gossip down by following the tolerant rule of see no evil, hear no evil. But recently, they have begun to hear rumors of an ugly thing new to Cuernavaca-blackmail. Stories of rich foreigners being framed on phony charges of misconduct and blackmailed for large sums soon spread to the capital. 40 miles away. Last week federal agents were in town, eagerly hunting victims of the racket...
...Adams when telling about Adams' telephone call to ask why Cohn had been ducking him. "I told Mr. Adams," Cohn calmly related, "I believed that he had been thoroughly dishonest. He asked me what I meant ... I told him that he had directly or indirectly made a blackmail threat...