Word: extort
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Some New Jersey teenagers fax two bomb threats to their high school in an alleged attempt to extort $1.3 million. In the home of one of them, police find a bombmaking manual called Jolly Roger's Cookbook, which, they say, had been downloaded from the Internet. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a live grenade is found in a newspaper-vending box; a day later, police discover an 8-in. pipe bomb on a bridge. These incidents, which happened last week and caused no injuries, may seem almost mundane compared to tragedy on the scale of the Oklahoma City blast...
...accused of firebombing a New York City subway in a scheme to terrorize and extort money from the transit authority loved the city and especially its transit system, his wife, said today in a press conference. Edward Leary "enjoyed the transit system -- he felt it was something that was a gift," his wife Marge Shaller said. A grand jury indicted Leary on several counts including attempted murder and assault. Leary faces a total of 45 counts of attempted murder and remains in critical but stable condition with severe burns covering half his body. Today his wife, who wore...
Police say a suspect in yesterday's firebombing of a crowded New York City subway train planned an underground terror spree to extort money from the city's transit authority. The man, 49-year-old Edward Leary of nearby Scotch Plains, N.J., was arrested in his hospital bed early today after he was found badly burned two stops from the disaster site and police discovered bomb-making paraphernalia in his apartment. Investigators said Leary, an unemployed former computer technician, likely intended to have the bomb go off on the subway while it crossed an underwater tunnel from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...Womack, who is also a part-time student at Northeastern, stole from their Library book collection, allegedly tried to extort money from the school, and also threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money were not left for him at Widener Library. In addition, he sent anonymous letters to Widener Library and Northeastern's Snell Library saying that if they did not fire their Jewish employees, he would bomb their buildings...
...past four years, Womack, a part-time library employee from 1990 to 1992, has stolen books from Northeastern University, tried to extort money from that university and threatened to blow up a bank if ransom money was not left for him at Widener, according to police. He also sent letters saying he would blow up libraries at Northeastern and at Harvard if they did not fire all their Jewish employees...