This is Your FBI: Extortion

This is your FBI. This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. For your FBI, you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for Financial Security.

These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight, the story of a crime against society. Extortion. Adolf Hitler was the world's best-known extortionist. His victims were the countries of Europe, to whom he said, join the Axis or die.

Here in the United States, the merchants of misery who practice extortion do not meet with any more success than Hitler did, and their failure can be attributed in a large measure to the FBI. Extortion used to be a very profitable racket, but the number of cases that crop up each year is diminishing.

Every once in a while though, there comes along a ring of white-collar hudlems who think they can commit the perfect crime who think that extortion is the easy way to make a living to men and a young girl recently hatched an extortion plot in a small midwestern city the plot was formulated the victim was chosen

all that remain was when and how to strike well jones maybe yes maybe no maybe yes maybe no maybe yes Shut up on him. Look, you can't keep stolen forever. Either you're going to do it or you're not.

Honey, I've been in this game a long time. It isn't as easy as all that. You can't just send him a letter and expect 20 grand to come back by return mail. I think we should ask for more.