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The 24 pages that link to Extortion, each with the reason it gives.

• Organized crimeRelated: Protection rackets turn threats into recurring income and local control.

• Hostage-takingRelated: Hostage-taking can serve as the coercive means in an extortion scheme.

• Organized crime in the United StatesRelated: Threats and protection demands have generated revenue and control for criminal groups.

• RacketeeringRelated: Threats can enforce payments, silence witnesses, or secure control in racketeering schemes.

• Cosa NostraRelated: Protection rackets let Cosa Nostra extract income and influence from businesses.

• Mexican drug warRelated: Armed groups have used it to diversify revenue beyond drug trafficking.

• TriadsRelated: It is among the coercive revenue methods associated with some triad-linked criminal activity.

• Chicago OutfitRelated: Threats could enforce debts, protect illicit markets, and intimidate rivals.

• YakuzaRelated: Protection demands and coercive payments have been recurring sources of yakuza income.

• Dutch SchultzRelated: Threats and violence helped Schultz enforce payments and control territory.

• Dawood IbrahimRelated: Extortion has been a recurring allegation against Ibrahim and his associates.

• Lepke BuchalterRelated: Threats and violence helped Buchalter’s associates enforce rackets and business demands.

• Giuseppe MorelloRelated: Threat-based demands helped criminal groups extract money from immigrant communities.

• Mexican MafiaRelated: Authorities have linked La Eme influence over some street gangs to demands for payments.

• MS-13Related: Extortion is a recurring source of income and control for MS-13 in some communities.