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We take care of shakedown artists in our own way.

Then he was accused of acting as a front for a Japanese shakedown artist.

He'd have sworn that she wasn't a shakedown artist.

You wouldn't be that shakedown artist with the sweet tooth, would you?

The new leagues would not put up with the shakedown artists and self-styled landlords.

No goddamned shakedown artists are coming aboard my ship.

They had their collaborators and bigots and shakedown artists, the same as anyone else.

These athletes defied and defected until the Soviet-style shakedown artists gave up.

When someone brings up the issue of homeless children, most people do not immediately think of the Mafia or shakedown artists.

"It's almost like they're shakedown artists," Hauge said, that pressured businesses to pay up or risk poor ratings.

Is he a shakedown artist, too?

Right under Frannie’s nose he has assembled a squad of thugs and shakedown artists who work with the city’s nastiest drug dealers.

The owners, in turn, have called the lawyers shakedown artists bent on ruining their good reputations to extort money.

Even policemen double as shakedown artists.

A shakedown artist to boot.

Tiger Hyrick was a shakedown artist.

Like shakedown artist.

Many industries that have tangled with Scruggs regard him as a buccaneer, a shakedown artist with a law degree.

Instead, he put the word out I was a friend of his to keep away the inevitable parade of shakedown artists wanting pieces of the club.

"This shakedown artist was drunk, screaming racial slurs, and assaulted my client and his family," Geragos said.

Corsi has also referred to Martin Luther King, Jr. as a "shakedown artist".

Barb Jahelka: Los Angeles singer and shakedown artist.

Anyway, once we put down on Masstone, the shakedown artists dropped on us and wouldn't let us open unless we spread the sugar.

Jharkhand is full of businessmen, private doctors and shopkeepers who pay "taxes" to the shakedown artists, but most of them prefer not to talk about it.