Trey Gowdy

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

American Politician

Martha Nussbaum

With inheritances, it's really important not to give the impression that you're extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you're not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.

American Philosopher

Lysander Spooner

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

Sucheta Dalal

While the middle class is bled dry to meet various the expenditure of a bloated government machinery, every revenue collection agency is busy extorting money instead of ensuring compliance.

Rafael Correa

The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

Politician

Michael Biehn

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

American Actor

Jeff Berwick

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

Canadian Businessman

Tupac Shakur

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

American Rapper

Extort is often used in contexts involving illegal activities, especially where threats are made.

Criminal Context

Using 'extort' implies a serious accusation; it's a strong word that should be used carefully.

Serious Tone

When someone extorts another, they could face legal charges due to the harmful nature of extortion.

Legal Consequences

 Passengers paid a fare to be carried from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, as well as to other points around the city. But gondoliers soon developed a bad rap. Historical documents describe numerous infractions involving boatmen, including cursing, gambling, extorting passengers -- even occasional acts of violence.

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 These refugees, many of whom are families, are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups. And if they survive for long enough to make it to their asylum hearing, less than one percent of them are able to find an attorney

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 smuggled in through the mail and sometimes even corrupt staff inmates who get their hands on drugs automatically have power over their peers and can extort addicts for money possessions or favors

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