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

It vexed him to think of submitting to the avarice of that wicked old extortioner; but to that submission, reluctant as he is, it seems probable he will come.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

They are like a bankrupt in the hands of an extortioner.

From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Spooner, Lysander

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.