Word: extortionate
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Yesterday Womack, a former Harvard library employee and part-time student at Northeastern, was arraigned in Cambridge Third District Court on multiple charges of extortion, receiving stolen property and malicious destruction. The Arlington resident pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Authorities said they had closed in on Womack in recent months after he sent a series of extortion and bomb threat letters to police officials at Northeastern University, where he is a part-time student.
McGonigle escaped four more serious counts of extortion, however, when one juror held out against further conviction.
Prosecutors plan to retry McGonigle on the deadlocked charges of conspiracy, extortion and racketeering in a trial set for December 19.
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