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

How, then, did David Arden, who hated a swindle, answer the old extortioner, who asked him, “Do you like my offer?”

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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

In his action we find no Christianity—no benevolence; nothing but the spirit of the extortioner is here manifested.

From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair