Perianne Boring

The law provides a remedy, charging those who threaten a victim's data for the purpose of extortion. Extending criminal liability to innocent third-party digital currency exchangers, or any other third-party financial institution, would be an utterly unwarranted and unjust misinterpretation both of law and policy.

American Businesswoman

Jan Brewer

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!

American Politician

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

David Boreanaz

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

American Actor

Sucheta Dalal

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

Rafael Correa

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Politician

Benny Gantz

I'm not subject to extortion under any circumstances.

Israeli Politician

Bill Watterson

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

American Cartoonist

Extortion is a legal term often associated with criminal activity and wrongdoing.

Criminal Connotation

Extortion can involve threats of harm, but it might also be subtle, like a threat to damage someone's reputation.

Not Always Violent

Extortion often involves money or property, but can also include favors or actions.

Financial Nature

When used to refer to pricing, extortion suggests a price that seems unfairly high to the buyer.

Perceived Unfairness

Calling a price extortion can convey the speaker's shock or anger at the cost.

Emotional Reaction

In non-legal contexts, 'extortion' can be used hyperbolically to express exasperation.

Hyperbolic Usage

Extortion can occur in situations with power differences, like an employer taking advantage of employees.

Power Imbalance

Although often about money, the term can also apply to unfair demands for labor or other resources.

Not Just Money

Using 'extortion' implies a moral stance against the unfair use of authority or power.

Ethical Context

 and when it came time for me to actually see it and to go visit Ferguson's jail, I'm not sure what I was expecting to see, but I wasn't expecting this. It's an ordinary government building. It could be a post office or a school. It reminded me that these illegal extortion schemes

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 that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses

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 because showing can identify you as one of the most notorious and feared members of Japanese society they're called Yakuza the gangsters of Japan they inhabit a world of drug run prostitution extortion and other crimes

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 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- they have financed their war by kidnapping, by extortion, by getting into the drug trade, by illegal mining. There has been terrorism. There have been random bombs.

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 who extort money from everyday hardworking citizens. But most civil servants are grossly underpaid and are leading desperate lives. And so for them, extortion or corruption is a good way to make a living.

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 Crips rackets include extortion gambling and drugs well that's the life of a convict you got to survive in this institution and basically survive when you're not free is by all means then and

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 extortion deal give us candy or will trash your house store keepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks and children were encouraged to travel door-to-door for

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 have committed or have been charged with money-related robberies, burglaries, fraud, larceny, extortion -- and the list goes on. Check this a typical incarcerated person

Extortion

Criminal Connotation

Not Always Violent

Financial Nature

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