In Yorkshire he became an extortioner and highwayman, eventually in partnership with Thomas Tankard and Edward Bracy. |
On July 25th a minister of state, Amit Shah, was arrested in connection with the alleged murder of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a suspected extortioner. |
If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. |
His later attempts to revise tax-assessments and improve the efficiency of their collection soon won him the reputation of an extortioner. |
We have already stated that Fardorougha was not only an extortioner, but a usurer. |
Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up. |