How to Use extortion in a Sentence

extortion

noun

• He was arrested and charged with extortion.
• Van der Sloot was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of extortion.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Van der Sloot was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the U.S. for extortion and wire fraud.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
• The extortion offense carries up to 20 years and the cocaine charge up to 10 years.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Van der Sloot is charged with wire fraud and extortion, and was advised of his rights.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 June 2023
• Aron instead brought the extortion attempt to the attention of the FBI.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• In 1995, after he was released from prison in the Tylenol extortion case, Mr. Lewis moved to the Boston area.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• Van der Sloot confessed to killing Holloway as part of a plea agreement in the extortion and fraud case.
  — Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• His attorneys have framed the funds as a response to an extortion plot.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The report tracked how the group, which first surfaced in the summer of 2021, uses a double-extortion playbook.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2022
• He was referred to in the 2019 extortion trial of the celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Park and Kim, Lee’s accusers, are being tried on extortion charges.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• In June 2010, a grand jury indicted him on wire fraud and extortion charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
• Once nude images have been traded, that’s when the extortion starts, Gallas said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2024
• At sentencing, Alexander could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison on the firearm count and 20 years on the extortion count.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2023
• He was sentenced to 35 years in jail for extortion and child pornography.
  — Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The lawyer, Joe Tacopina, portrayed the former president as a victim of her extortion.
  — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• But the thought of staying in Mexico — with its drug gangs and extortion — terrifies her.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Officials in Peru allowed his temporary release to the US in June to face the extortion and wire fraud charges.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels and has described the payments as extortion.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels and described the payments as extortion.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• The case went into November as Ramone missed court dates and hearings for the extortion case and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
• At least nine state governors have been convicted of crimes ranging from bribery to extortion since 2000.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Miller-Whitehead is facing — two counts of wire fraud and one of extortion — carry a maximum 20-year prison sentence each.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• Sometimes these groups kidnap relatives and hold them hostage until the extortion is paid.
  — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• The wild success of the Ice Bucket Challenge, one of the past decade’s feel-good social-media sensations, obscured its origins as a form of extortion.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• Kidnapping, extortion, the rape of women and children, and the torching of homes and neighborhoods became routine weapons of fear.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
• As of this writing, dozens of Telegram channels used by the extortion network remain active.
  — Ali Winston, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
• Soon after, a man wrote an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, the maker of Tylenol, demanding $1 million to stop the killings.
  — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• But Peruvian officials allowed his temporary release to the US in June to face the extortion and wire fraud charges.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024