Word: extortionate
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Last Thursday, a 16-year-old Chinese youth was shot to death in Boston's Chinatown. The victim was identified as a leader of a New York City gang involved in extortion and armed robbery. Police think that the five or six youths who shot him three times after beating...
Despite that outcome, Sirica has been severely criticized by some legal authorities for using the provisional-sentencing procedure as a device to get the defendants to cooperate with investigators. "We must be concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud...
Later trials may absolve some defendants, but the range of criminal charges against them is appalling. It includes perjury, burglary, illegal wiretapping, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, fraud, extortion, solicitation of illegal campaign contributions, violation of campaign funding laws, subornation of perjury, illegal distribution of campaign literature, and various...
Like Spater, most of the executives claimed that they broke the law not to buy specific favors for their companies but rather out of fear of what might happen if they refused. The process, agreed Atkins, "borders on extortion."
Well Rid. And there was none until at last the Vice President found himself alone, unsupported by his President and with his options running out. It looked as though it would come down to a courtroom fight, and the evidence had piled up against him. "I have never seen a...