| You could even stop extorting millions of dollars out of municipalities or forcing them to build new stadiums. |
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| Poster General Burleson has succeeded in penalizing the press by extorting a festerous rate of postage. |
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| He is also charged with money-laundering and extorting bookmakers, drug dealers and loan sharks. |
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| The organisation also stands accused of extorting money from other organisations worldwide in order to maintain the registries. |
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| That case hinged on an interpretation of the Hobbs act, a 1946 law aimed at thwarting gangsters from extorting interstate truckers. |
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| Tax collectors had a reputation of extorting more money than required and pocketing the excess. |
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| Unfortunately, people can make a fortune extorting money from this kind of client. |
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| First, China's laws expressly prohibit extorting confessions by acts of torture. |
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| Other groups are extorting recent immigrants, I suspect, in the Somali community and others. |
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| On the other hand, the Court ought to be very careful not to allow an action for the protection of ancient lights to be used as a means of extorting money. |
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| At the time, some members of his Four Seas Gang wanted to muscle in on a rival gang's turf and begin extorting protection money from small businesses. |
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| The disguise serves him while extorting information from a bank officer, then he uses it to deceive his nemesis if he puts in a sudden appearance. |
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| Why is the government now extorting additional fees for doing what should simply be its job? |
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| We can also see how the richest countries can in effect corrupt the good progress of UN operations by extorting, in a way, its long-term needs. |
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| Act like a mobster to command respect, intimidating and extorting business owners and rival families with devastating new attacks and executions. |
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| For example, they could stage a few sting operations in the hospitals that are extorting money to perform surgery. |
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| At the author's request, Mr. Ayissi Ngono and Mr. Atangana Bengono were summoned to appear before the same court to answer charges of extorting a signature, attempted fraud and blackmail. |
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| Groups such as the Richardsons, who were based in south London, and the Krays, in east London, mostly made their money extorting from local businesses and petty criminals. |
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| We encountered only one serious attempt to extort money at a subsequent checkpoint, and that was quickly resolved by a yoghurt-coated cereal bar. A week earlier, a Lagos policeman caught extorting money on camera was sacked. |
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| In Sarobi, on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul, a checkpoint notorious in pre-Taliban days for extorting money from travellers has reportedly been re-established. |
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| There should be respect for asylum, but this should not become cells, pockets of anarchy, of all those going around in hoods violating, extorting and plundering the life of the citizens. |
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| Yet as long as the war continues, it is impossible to implement this plan as the various armed actors vie for territorial control, each extorting money from civilians caught in the midst of the violence. |
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| These methods render extorting confession through torture unnecessary. |
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| Also, the quality of public jobs suffers in corrupt systems because government officials spend resources on extorting bribes rather than providing services. |
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| Insurgent groups, such as Al-Shabaab, are alleged to be extorting money from private companies and recruiting young people to join the fight against the Government in Mogadishu, including child soldiers. |
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| The army is reportedly forcing villagers to pave the routes and is extorting money from local merchants, taking materials from shops and farms without paying. |
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| Nigerian police avoid posting to the academy as their opportunity to make illegal income is limited to extorting bribes from trainees to pass exams. |
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| The provisions of article 247 of the Criminal Law concerning the crime of extorting confessions by means of torture and violence apply to judicial officers who obtain evidence by acts of torture. |
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| All these people had in interest in extorting a maximum amount of money from taxpayers under false pretenses and to share the spoils even at the cost of incredible inefficiency. |
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