Blackmail Extortion,

68 N.E. 2d 464, 465; "the exaction of money either for the performance of a duty, the prevention of an injury, or the exercise of an influence," 24 P. 979, 980; "malicious threatening to do injury to person of another or to accuse one of crime or offense, to compel him to do an act against his will," 258 N.W. 62, 65; "extortion of things of value from a person by menaces of personal injury, or by threatening to accuse him of crime or any immoral conduct, which, if true, tends to degrade or disgrace him." 82 N.E. 1039, 1041. Often labeled as "criminal coercion" in criminal statutes. See Model Penal Code §212.5.