Word: extort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning before the banquet Mr. Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...