Word: extorted
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...turned state's witness after pleading guilty in 1987 to murder, racketeering and conspiring with a Philadelphia councilman to extort $1 million from a real estate developer. Since then you've testified in 11 trials that have brought 52 convictions. Why did you squeal...
Spira is under federal indictment on charges that he tried to extort money from Steinbrenner and threatened the owner and Winfield. Spira has pleaded not guilty, and a trial is expected later this year...
...expected quarters begin to ask, "Is nothing sacred?" Feminists join reactionaries to denounce pornography as demeaning to women. Rock musician Frank Zappa declares that when Tipper Gore, the wife of Senator Albert Gore from Tennessee, asked music companies to label sexually explicit material, she launched an illegal "conspiracy to extort." A Penthouse editorialist says that housewife Terry Rakolta, who asked sponsors to withdraw support from a sitcom called Married . . . With Children, is "yelling fire in a crowded theater," a formula that says her speech is not protected by the First Amendment...
...launders payoffs from the hospitals and the University," She wrote. "The city, through its zoning process, is able to extort these payoffs from our country's great hospitals and a great university...
...acquittal in the Levin case, he and three others face charges of having killed Hedayat Eslaminia, a former Iranian government official and the father of a club associate. Authorities say the group, including Eslaminia's son, killed the wealthy Iranian in July 1984 during a desperate kidnaping intended to extort money for the club. The Billionaire Boys may soon be paying a high price for their investments...