Word: extortionately
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The public accusations have lent weight to long-circulating rumors. Evidence of extortion, secret arms sales and drug trafficking remains largely circumstantial, encouraged by Noriega's three spacious houses, his art collection and his frequent holidays in France, all of which he enjoys on a military salary.
But the biggest headlines were produced in New York City last week as another federal grand jury investigating Wedtech indicted seven men, including Bronx Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi and his son, on a variety of extortion, racketeering and conspiracy charges. The 84-page indictment depicted Wedtech as a racketeering enterprise...
Former Rep. Vincent Piro took his $5 per diem every day of his three-week federal extortion trial in 1984.
The eight grim men seated around the defendants' table may have looked like a group of grandfathers, but to Chief Prosecutor Michael Chertoff, they were directors of the "largest and most vicious criminal business in the history of the United States." Last week twelve anonymous members of a federal jury...
The agents were even able to slip a bug into "Big Paul" Castellano's house on Staten Island some two years before he was murdered. Ironically, they heard Castellano apparently complaining about Sparks Steak House, the site of his death. "You know who's really busy making a real fortune...