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

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoil his labor.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

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

To fall into the hands of an extortioner is always a terrible thing, but to have a mechanical extortioner hold power over me; there was a horror beyond words in this perversity.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander