What we have here is a plain and simple extortion racket.

Their operation is more extortion racket than gateway to freedom.

In the late 1930s, the extortion racket was busted by law enforcement.

My one and only contribution to this extortion racket.

They both run their extortion rackets and plague people to no end."

To manufacturers, the bill is an opportunity to limit a legal extortion racket that raises business costs.

As well as extortion rackets, the groups also worked in "car insurance" and theft.

However, the biggest contributors to his extortion racket have always been the Bollywood film figures.

At one point, he ran an extortion racket in a Shiite neighborhood of Beirut.

And in Mexico, officials now acknowledge, the police were part of the extortion rackets and did almost nothing to stop the violence.

Finally, there is what she calls "the old extortion racket: Uh-oh, we'd better give them something or they'll destroy us."

North Korea seems to be running an international extortion racket, trying to trade in threatening weapons programs for food, cash and other forms of assistance.

The rest concentrate on kidnapping, extortion rackets and controlling local drug user markets.

His kidnapping and extortion rackets still produced sufficient income.

"I intend to fight this extortion racket," Bartley said.

He and a shrinking core of loyalists turned to running an extortion racket, gunning down those who got in their way.

The proceeds in this extortion racket, investigators said, were considerable but they could not specify an exact amount.

'Granny's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you.'

Reardon, who is running the extortion racket, chastises Priest for wanting to leave the business.

Could he have been the victim of an extortion racket, and did his inability or unwillingness to pay lead to his murder?

They start by disrupting Zucco's gambling and extortion rackets.

He consolidated much of the gambling, prostitution, liquor and extortion rackets in the city and brought them under his control.

"They thought he was part of an extortion racket and they were afraid to talk to him," Ms. Garland said.

It has become a straight-out extortion racket."

"Yesterday was a drug bust, today, it's an extortion racket, tomorrow we're tracing a burglary ring.