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Extortion is commonly known as “blackmailing” and is one of many serious white collar crimes in Nevada that can bring long prison sentences and can ruin your future chances of professional employment. Because blackmailing involves knowingly exploiting a weakness of another person or threatening to “ruin” them or their reputation, the criminal justice system punishes this crime in a harsh way.
If you have been arrested for extortion, contact LV Criminal Defense to begin your defense as soon as possible. Like other white collar crimes, there will likely have been an investigation before your arrest. This means that defending extortion charges is a complex process that requires the best criminal defense lawyer you can find.
If a person threatens to:
he or she can be liable for extortion if the threat is made for any of these reasons:
As you can see, extortion requires two steps. This also means that the prosecutor must prove both of these elements before you can be convicted of the Nevada crime of extortion. You should also notice that you do not have to actually injure, publish, or expose the other person to be convicted. Instead, extortion focuses on the threat of doing these things to another for your personal gain.
It is a separate crime to make a person believe he or she will be injured or their property damaged if they do not pay a debt. This is still a type of extortion but it carries its own set of punishments. Extortion involving debt collection is also a felony offense in Nevada.
Nick Wooldridge has a long track record of representing clients accused of serious federal and state crimes in Nevada.
Extortion is a Category B felony with prison time of 1 to 10 years, fines of up to $10,000, and a restitution requirement for the victim. Restitution is only a requirement if the victim paid the defendant to avoid the threatened injury or damage to the victim’s reputation.
Extortion involving debt collection carries slightly lower prison time of 1 to 6 years, but it is still a Nevada Category B felony.
Extortion involves forcing a person to do something by threatening a negative consequence if they do not, such as
revealing a secret. Bribery is different because it involves making a person a deal he or she has a hard time refusing; this may mean money or gifts in exchange for changing their behavior. Both extortion and bribery are serious crimes in Nevada, but usually only one can be charged at a time based on the same set of facts.
Another way of thinking of the difference is that the victim of extortion pays money or does some other thing he or she would not normally do, while a victim of bribery receives money or other compensation to do something he or she may not have done otherwise.
An experienced criminal defense lawyer in Las Vegas can work to reduce the charges against you or even get them dismissed in an extortion case. Contact LV Criminal Defense to learn more about your rights and defenses if you have been arrested for extortion in Nevada.
When I initially met with Mr. Wooldridge, he took the opportunity to sit and go over my problem with me. He described details in my case which he found disturbing and explained why he I should have him on my side.
