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In addition, starting in the early '80s federal prosecutors have used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), passed in 1970, to charge top mob bosses with extortion.
The war on tobacco offers the most telling example of this sort of extralegal extortion.
But the paper carries this rejoinder from an ACLU staffer: "The Constitution has never been found to protect extortion: someone saying they'll break your windows every day or someone stationing a thug outside your business."
Why would a powerful businessman succumb to extortion, plead guilty to a criminal charge of tax evasion, and pay a fine he did not owe?
' " Weld also has claimed to be a victim of Helms' "ideological extortion."