Article: Offences relating to extortion.

Article: Trusted Network Technologies Names Scottie Oliver Vice President ...
Business Wire;  August 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and CEO of TNT. "She is highly respected and has proven her ability to refine sales teams and strategies, and brings valuable security industry experience to our group." "My focus will be to capitalize on TNT's momentum in the marketplace by building ...

Article: Extortion proves difficult to prove
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Extortion proves difficult to prove Without videotape ... Journal Sentinel Monday, July 7, 2003 Extortion: Obtaining property from another, with ... Richard Spaulding was convicted of extortion for accepting $11,800 worth of bribes ...

Article: Extortion
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...EXTORTION The obtaining of property from another ... official right. Under the common law, extortion is a misdemeanor consisting of an unlawful ... jurisdictions have statutes governing extortion that broaden the common-law definition ...

Article: Blackmail and Extortion
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice;      700+ words ...BLACKMAIL AND EXTORTION Extortion refers to obtaining property or compelling action by the use of threats or by the misuse of public office. The terms blackmail and extortion are often used interchangeably; yet in ordinary speech, they ...

Article: Downtown shoppers pay extortion bill
The Weekly Gleaner;  December 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... tabs for the costs of the continuing extortion racket which the police say many fearful ... entrepreneurs who have not passed the extortion bill to shoppers have absorbed it as ... showed there has been no report of extortion to the police so far this year, compared ...

Article: The extortion racket
The Weekly Gleaner;  November 17, 2005 ;     700+ words ...EXTORTION IS so prevalent that it has become the ... even while cursing others for doing so. Extortion is a billion-dollar racket and a criminal ... that dons and gangsters can amass from extortion and associated criminal activities ...

Article: Levels of extortion against business is up since Good ...
Belfast Telegraph;  November 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The level of paramilitary extortion rackets has increased in Northern ... involvement.In an article entitled Extortion - The Cost Of Doing Business In Northern ... scale and scope of this problem [extortion] in NI, as it is grossly underreported ...