Word: extortionate
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For months two federal grand juries and a posse of Internal Revenue and other federal agents have been on the trail of a massive influence-peddling and extortion racket conducted in Gurney's behalf. Last week's indictment charges that Florida real estate developers and contractors who had...
Paul T. Jordan, 33, was a young physician in charge of a Jersey City drug-rehabilitation center in the late 1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971...
Dellinger, a former advertising man, began the class in 1972 while serving a 17-month term for attempted extortion. Prison authorities, hesitant at first, became so enthusiastic about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer...
Dirty Money. After the liquor extortion scandals broke in 1972, Superintendent James Conlisk created a task force called C-5 to ferret out corruption.
Modest Reforms. As the extortion scandal grew, Conlisk stepped down under pressure last November, becoming chief of traffic. Rochford, his right-hand man, was named acting superintendent until a permanent replacement could be found. The city's police board screened 250 applicants for the job, then passed on three...