extort

Four Nigerian policeman, accused of setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from drivers, picked on the wrong man: the head of one of the country's anti-corruption agencies.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

This means the agency will no longer extort defendants into silence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

It has been published as part of their attempt to extort money from the nursery chain, which has its 18 nurseries mostly in the London area.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

They can certainly extort a painful price from the world while trying to, and the full reckoning may be more than we can bear.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

He was a proud and independent man who was opposed to unemployment insurance and never hesitated to whine, whimper, wheedle, and extort for as much as he could get from whomever he could.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“Landmark extorts small businesses, demanding payment for webpages that are essential for running a business,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2021

The main perk of being the bid’s junior partner is that we won’t be on the hook for the full array of infrastructural follies Fifa normally extorts from the host.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2017

“But they make sure that nobody robs, nobody extorts, nobody kidnaps. They don’t mess with the people here.”

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2015

He believes this pressure to be friendly is caused by “unequal economic power that extorts emotional work.”

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2014

But when a Governor-General descends into the muck and filth of peculation and corruption, when he receives bribes and extorts money, he does acts that are imitable by everybody.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

At her final campaign rallies, Fujimori declared "war" on extortionists, promising to deploy the military against organised crime, control prisons, and work with financial institutions to block extorted money.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

He has effectively extorted $1 billion in free legal services from law firms based on baseless legal claims and tens of millions of dollars from media companies based on wholly meritless lawsuits.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

The relationships, Canter said, make Ernst vulnerable to being extorted if people learned of them and could give someone undue influence over her.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

“This detailed evidence collectively shows that Hart was involved in a negotiation over the sale of the video, not extorted, which is extremely crucial for understanding the legal and public perception of the incident.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

Kelly was true to his word, and used so much despatch that within two days he extorted a promise from Lord Oxford to undertake the muslin trade in England, as the cant phrase went.

From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew

But her political career ended when her husband, Bill Collins, a dentist and businessman, was convicted in 1993 of extorting money from people who had business before the state while his wife was governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

He denied threatening or extorting anyone, the detective said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

It is unusual for hackers to claim they are "Russian hacktivists" with an ethical agenda - most cyber criminals, including those in Russia, aim to make money by extorting their victims.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

They were a drain on the economy, extorting money from even the lowest earners, and forcing businesses that can’t or won’t pay to close.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

“You would think,” Skarpi’s voice rolled out like thick honey, “fine churchmen such as yourselves could find better things to do than arresting storytellers and extorting money from honest men.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss