7. CRIMINAL EXTORTION AND COERCION. Extortion is a crime when, by color of office, any person extorts...more than is due... 18 U.S.C.A. § 871 et seq.; § 1951. A person is guilty of criminal coercion if, with purpose to unlawfully restrict another's freedom of action to his detriment, he threatens to... take or withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action.

PURPOSE: Punish government employees for fraudulently concealing and converting qui tam fraud recovery proceeds as alternate remedies, forfeitures or free present or future work after concealing or hiding them from the courts of jurisdiction and the U.S. Treasury.

Model Penal Code, § 223.4.

Extortion is a crime when, by color of office, any person extorts that which is not due, or more than is due, or before the time when it is due. 18 U.S.C.A. § 871 et seq.; § 1951.

The obtaining of property from another induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. 18 U.S.C.A. § 871 et seq.; § 1951. A person is guilty of theft by extortion if he purposely obtains property of another by threatening to:

• inflict bodily injury on anyone or commit any other criminal offense; or

• accuse anyone of a criminal offense; or

• expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to impair his credit or business repute; or

• take or withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action; or

• bring about or continue a strike, boycott or other collective unofficial action, if the property is not demanded or received for the benefit of the group in whose interest the actor purports to act; or

• testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to anther's legal claim or defense; or

• inflict any other harm which would not benefit the actor.

Model Penal Code, § 212.5., 144 F.Supp. 381, 34

A person is guilty of criminal coercion if, with purpose to unlawfully restrict another's freedom of action to his detriment, he threatens to:

(c) expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to impair his credit or business repute; or

(d) take or withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action. It may be... implied, legal or constructive,... where one party is constrained by subjugation to other... to do what his free will would refuse. Compelled to compliance; constrained to obedience, or submission in a vigorous or forcible manner.