Word: extortionate
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Another old law in which Thompson found new possibilities was a 1934 extortion statute, originally aimed at strong-arm labor racketeers, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence. Big Jim turned the statute into a particularly potent law-enforcement weapon in a major 1973 case in the Seventh Circuit Court...
> OPEC producers would feel a gradual squeeze in a world of $10.80 oil, as users gained increased self-sufficiency. Total demand from the industrialized countries would drop by at least 10% in ten years. By the late 1970s, the 13-nation cartel would have to consider deep cuts in production...
After denials and clarifications, it developed that Fitzpatrick had actually represented a co-defendant of Nardello's in an extortion trial. When an appeal bearing the names of both defendants went to the Supreme Court, it was Fitzpatrick who argued the case. But he insists, "I have never represented...
The validity of the historical flashbacks derives largely from what they say, by inference, about Michael. The old man, encountering in New York's Little Italy the very same pattern of extortion and vendetta that he escaped in Sicily, began by doing his own killing and taking his own...
Mere Camouflage. Heesch, an unemployed truck driver, pleaded guilty to toppling two BPA towers near Brightwood, Ore., and using the U.S. mail to extort money. He faces 22 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. Sheila Heesch also pleaded guilty of being an accomplice to the dynamiting of two...