Decided one day not to pay the local outfit's protection money.
"I've got an entire box of the best protection money can buy upstairs next to the bed."
So they let some live in exchange for protection money or slave labor.
"They hit the new stores in the area to squeeze out protection money."
How long before we're paying for child soldiers to shoot us in the head because we didn't pay protection money?
I kept telling them to go to hell with their protection money.
It wasn't like you started selling and then paid them protection money.
They have struck alliances with business leaders, who pay protection money.
People were actually ringing in, begging to pay protection money!
In the absence of a police force, protection money has to be paid out.
