extort

Verb

• get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

• obtain by coercion or intimidation
  • They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
    
  • They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him
    

• obtain through intimidation

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wring from , squeeze , rack , gouge , wring