Word: extort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines by threatening to blow up one of its jets in Salt Lake City...
Many of the Indians who fled to Mexico do not speak Spanish. Conditions in the camps are such that they continually suffer from malnutrition, tuberculosis and gastrointestinal disease. Mexican officials have been known to beat, rape or otherwise abuse the refugees; often the officials extort bribes in exchange for a promise not to send refugees back across the border. Landowners pay Guatemalans $1 a day for their labor, vs. a Mexican minimum daily wage...
...woman then claimed that her boyfriend, Gaetan, had forced her file the false complaint as part of scheme to extort money from Vagts...
...reduced to ten agents from 150, has checked out 60,000 tips and compiled 25,000 pages of reports. Though the investigators work relentlessly, one of them concedes that the trail is "stone cold, and has been for six months." James W. Lewis, who is accused of trying to extort $ 1 million from Johnson & Johnson by offering to "stop the killing," goes on trial this week. Police have failed to find evidence connecting Lewis directly with the poisonings...
...agent does not sit around much hoping the phone will ring. The trouble with Hillsborough County is that all too many of its officials may indeed be crooks. The hot line was set up by the FBI after three of the five county commissioners were charged with conspiring to extort money from citizens seeking approval of a zoning application. After the arrests were announced, so many residents called the FBI's regular number to report that they knew of other bribes and corruption that the FBI decided to man a special telephone 24 hours...