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According to the Department of Justice, a pair of Virginia attorneys pleaded guilty to federal extortion charges on Friday.\\xa0
38-year-old Timothy Litzenburg and 41-year-old Daniel Kincheloe admitted to participating in a scheme to extort $200 million from multinational chemical company Monsanto. According to the DOJ, the lawyers threatened financial and reputational harm if the company didn\\u2019t hand over money disguised as a \\u201cconsulting agreement.\\u201d
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