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Lindsey Graham: Is that extortion under our law?

On the recordJuly 14, 2014
Is that extortion under our law?
Said by
Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham questions whether ransom demands from hackers qualify as extortion legally.

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