                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXTORTION OF MONEY, PROPERTY OR PECUNIARY BENEFIT (§ 18.2-59)

Any person who (i) threatens injury to the character, person, or property of
another person, (ii) accuses him of any offense, (iii) threatens to report him
as being illegally present in the United States, or (iv) knowingly destroys,
conceals, removes, confiscates, withholds or threatens to withhold, or possesses
any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other
actual or purported government identification document, of another person, and
thereby extorts money, property, or pecuniary benefit or any note, bond, or
other evidence of debt from him or any other person, is guilty of a Class 5
felony.
		For the purposes of this section, injury to property includes the sale,
distribution, or release of identifying information defined in clauses (iii)
through (xii) of subsection C of § 18.2-186.3, but does not include the
distribution or release of such information by a person who does so with the
intent to obtain money, property or a pecuniary benefit to which he reasonably
believes he is lawfully entitled.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-184; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2006, c. 313;
2007, cc. 453, 547; 2010, c. 298.