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fleecing, gouging, highway robbery, overcharging
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Spaulding, 47, is charged with battery and extortion. — Bethany Freudenthal, USA TODAY, "Man accused of force-feeding meth to cat used kitten in extortion attempt, court docs show," 27 Aug. 2019 According to Newsweek, hackers have in recent years adopted ransomware attacks as a preferred extortion method, especially among municipal entities. — Marc Ramirez, Dallas News, "20 Texas jurisdictions hit by coordinated ransomware attack, state says," 17 Aug. 2019 After a seven-day trial, Sean Patrick Melody was convicted of two counts of kidnapping for extortion, three counts of grand theft of a firearm and one count of grand theft of personal property, according to the district attorney’s office. — Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, "51-year-old man convicted of violent 2009 kidnapping and home invasion in Marina," 26 July 2019 When done privately, this is extortion and bribery. — baltimoresun.com, "Letters: After-school soccer club a success; Howard needs a plastic bag ban; and more from readers," 17 July 2019 The gang, also known as La Mara Salvatrucha, is generally known for extortion and violence rather than distributing and selling narcotics. — Michael Balsamo, The Seattle Times, "Sessions: MS-13 gang, drug cartels among top threats to US," 15 Oct. 2018 Those dueling interpretations of Mr. Skelos’s testimony and his relationship to his son marked the entire closing arguments in the retrial of both Skeloses for extortion, bribery and conspiracy. — Vivian Wang, New York Times, "Skelos Trial Tests the Boundaries of Fatherly Love and Criminal Law," 11 July 2018 Cartels also use Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for extortion, while human smugglers use Facebook to coordinate their activities and advertise their services. — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, "Drug traffickers are recruiting smugglers on Facebook," 1 Aug. 2019 Organised crime is rife and migrants dropped there would be vulnerable to extortion and forced recruitment. — R. E. | Tegucigalpa, The Economist, "Inside Donald Trump’s migration pact with the Guatemalan president," 27 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'extortion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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