Word: extorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...president of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council before he was indicted. Scopo is accused of accepting many of the payoffs from the participating concrete firms. Scopo's lawyer admits the union leader took payoffs, but he and the other attorneys deny it was part of a broader extortion scheme. Since the Mafia leaders own some of the construction companies, said Dawson, the Government was claiming "that these men extort themselves...
...Vietnamese gangs pose as anti-Communist groups seeking freedom for their homeland, witnesses said, but they actually extort money from Vietnamese merchants in the U.S. They torture their rivals and threaten or kill journalists who try to expose them. One Vietnamese woman told how her publisher husband, whose magazine had carried articles about the gangs, had been warned to stop. When he did not, she said quietly, "gunmen came into where he worked and shot him to death." Another witness claimed that former South Vietnamese army officers led by Ky run a 1,000-member Vietnamese crime network...