Word: extortionists
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...their pin-pricked map without ever leaving a satisfactory clue, a huge piece of luck came from Washington. On April 5, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt recalled all gold bullion, coin and certificates. Since $40,000 of the $50,000 ransom money was in gold notes, police chances of catching the extortionist were increased a hundredfold. Not only the Lindbergh money but all gold bills automatically became "hot." The problem had been simplified, but by no means solved. In August $2,980 of the Lindbergh notes were converted into legitimate currency right under the nose of the New York Federal Reserve Bank...
...protect and further the avarice of Cambridge's leading profiteers, and it closes its eyes completely to the exorbitant prices which they charge. Consequently, at this time, the garage owners are still battening off the students, and stretching out grasping tentacles to encircle those who balk at such extortionist tactics...
...Manhattan, an extortionist was sent to the penitentiary for 50 years, guilty of abducting for ransom an East Side butcher...
...late famed William Travers Jerome, crusading district attorney of Manhattan, tried his hardest to prove that the notorious colonel's faith in human nature was limited to his creditors; in short, that he was an extortionist. But victims of extortion are rarely willing to testify that they bought silence. For 55 years Town Topics thrived; and Col. Mann's estate, at his death twelve years ago, was valued...
...five other prescribed gangsters against whom the Government will concentrate in New York are: Irving Wexler ("Waxey Gordon"), East Side whiskey peddler; Owen "Owney" Madden, extortionist, laundry racketeer; Larry Fay, shady proprietor of night clubs, taxicabs, milk associations; Bill Duffy, cabaret owner and prize fight manager; Giro Terranova, "The Artichoke King," who collects his levy from markets...