extortioner
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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
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
The money had to be found, and the manor was sold to Sir Robert Clayton, Whig, Lord Mayor, plutocrat, and, according to Dryden, extortioner.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
He had fixed her price as fifty aurei, and Menecreta had saved just one half that amount when fate and the vengeance of the populace overtook the extortioner.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
You dare treat Henry Alison as if he were an extortioner, whose word and honor were to be sold for dollars!
From A Hero of the Pen by Werner, E.
