Word: extorting
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...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...
...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...