The subject of today's file from your FBI... Extortion! The professional criminal - almost without exception - depends on some kind of protection which will, he hopes, keep him out of prison. Sometimes this takes the form of gun and getaway car, or an attempt to establish alibis, or buy witnesses. However, there is one lawbreaker who counts on getting his protection from the very victims of his crime... The extortionist. Many of these criminal parasites have been able to operate for years without their activities ever being reported to law enforcement agencies. Once the payout starts, the hapless victim of the extortionist finds themselves an accomplice, in a conspiracy against his own pocket book, his own piece of mind, and perhaps even his own life...