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  2. Extortion - Wikipedia

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    Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence ; the bulk of this article deals with such cases.

  3. Sextortion - Wikipedia

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    Sextortion (a portmanteau of sex and extortion) employs non-physical forms of coercion to extort sexual favors from the victim. Sextortion refers to the broad category of sexual exploitation in which abuse of power is the means of coercion, as well as to the category of sexual exploitation in which threatened release of sexual images or ...

  4. Opinion - I worked for Kamala Harris. Here’s what I learned ...

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    Months earlier, she had decided to bring criminal extortion charges against a man who operated a website that posted sexually explicit images without their subjects’ consent. His lawyer was ...

  5. Coercion - Wikipedia

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    Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. [1] [2] [need quotation to verify] [3] It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.

  6. What is extortion? - AOL

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    Extortion is the act of threatening someone or using force against that person in order to obtain something.

  7. Corruption - Wikipedia

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    Political corruption is the abuse of public power, office, or resources by elected government officials for personal gain, by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes. It can also take the form of office holders maintaining themselves in office by purchasing votes by enacting laws which use taxpayers' money. [59]

  8. Guatemala's new government makes extortion its top security ...

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    Only about 20% of the extortion cases are attributable to gangs, while the rest are gang “imitators,” Jiménez said, meaning that opportunistic criminals trade on the violen.

  9. Political corruption - Wikipedia

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    Forms of corruption vary but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement. Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise, such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking, although it is not restricted to these activities.