Word: extortionately
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Lugar looks ready to bolt as he steps into a dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we...
Charges of extortion against a former post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies were dropped by the Middlesex County district attorney's office last Friday.
But Alavi said he is not positive that Afrasiabi was involved in the extortion. "I really can't say [whether he was guilty or not]," he said. "I didn't see him write those letters."
DETROIT: In a blow to organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the...
According to Womack's lawyer Lee P. Johnson, the district attorney and judge agreed that a mistrial was appropriate given the amount of time the jury was taking to decide the four extortion counts.