Word: extortionist
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...threat and extortion brought by two members of CMES. I endured the hardship of nine days in jail, where I toiled in the kitchen from 5:30 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon every day, my name was defamed in the local and national media as an "extortionist" and it took me a taxing three months of legal and media battles until the D.A. dropped those charges...
...February 8 issue of The Crimson reported that Alavi originally suggested that Afrasiabi might be the extortionist after hearing Rana's description of the man she met at the cafe...
According to a police report, the extortionist pledged to kill Alavi if he or she was not given $500. After meeting at Au Bon Pain a number of times with Rana, the extortionist returned the money with a letter of apology...
...report says the extortionist criticized Alavi at the meetings at Au Bon Pain, saying he had "frauded his way through life" and accusing Western-educated Iranians of looking down on other Iranians...
...have analyzed this report 100 times and this is my conclusion: that some people have come up with a fictional extortionist and put in him the worst Middle Eastern stereotypes," Afrasiabi said...