extortioner

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The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cleve was very near giving this unconscionable old extortioner a bit of his mind, and ordering him out of the house on the instant.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

If the mamálacha be received, the case is hopeless; and indeed the custom of the country requires that the extortioner should be never met with a negative.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis