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They alleged that Church leaders were extorting monthly payments and micro-managing dioceses that used to enjoy operational autonomy.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

Cohen acknowledged once telling a prosecutor he felt that Daniels and her lawyer were extorting Trump.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

Among other presumably harrowing adventures, Politkovskaya survived the bombing that leveled the Chechen capital, saved the life of a dying refugee’s son and confronted drunken soldiers who were extorting civilians.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022

To a correspondent who grumbled that aldermen were extorting a fee to preside over marriages, he wrote, "if I had time I would marry you all for nothing."

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2013

A malcontent colonel and a few hundred men, unpaid by the needy government, were extorting their arrears by the strong hand from the towns upon the coast.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various