United States v. Dean J. Lisinski

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• exploiting a restaurant owner’s “fear of losing his liquor license” to extract money
• victim’s fear that loss of liquor license would put his restaurant out of business was sufficient to sustain extortion conviction
• “[T]he exploitation of the victim's reasonable fear constitutes extortion regardless 6 of whether or not the defendant was responsible for creating that fear and despite the absence of 7 any direct threats.”

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