extortion

And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.

There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.

Did he participate in his own extortion and cancel his plans for a big Christmas premiere?

She refused to take a paternity test, and was eventually convicted of extortion and sentenced to 22 months in prison.

There could be a number of potential crimes, not the least of which could be extortion.

Blood-shed, oppression, extortion, and all the instinctive habits of the shrewd savage were again rife.

She declared that nobody could help her and that, anyway, there would never be a repetition of the extortion.

The extortion of that confirmation of his calumnies had been a main object of the whole disgraceful farce.

It seemed that his idea of economy might be expressed in these words: He abhorred extortion and visible waste.

Undue claims on the part of the tax collectors were aggravated by the extortion of the public officials.