extortionist

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O'Brien tops the trainer standings, and countryman Johnny Murtagh heads the jockeys' list after a 152-1 double with Sole Power in the King's Stand Stakes and Extortionist in the closing Windsor Castle Stakes.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2013

More astonishing than the committee's blockbuster statement was its closing-hour suggestion that Extortionist Dio provided Hoffa with secret miniature recording devices as well as recording experts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even New York Labor Extortionist Johnny Dio was willing to put out $20,000 of his own money to start a Teamsters' local.

From Time Magazine Archive

Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay.

From Time Magazine Archive

President George Meany on a trip to see Extortionist Fay, hadn't spoken a word during the visit.

From Time Magazine Archive