dpdxguy t1_j6j3pmr wrote
Reply to comment by DaFugYouSay in The Chickens and the Bulls: The Rise and Incredible Fall of a Vicious Extortion Ring That Preyed on Prominent Gay Men in the 1960s by PhillipCrawfordJr
>nobody would have bothered blackmailing them in the first place.
The article clearly states that the extortion ring went after targets big and small.
However, it also seems clear that the primary reason the police went after the extortion ring was that it was making the police look bad to the powers that be. IOW, it's the police that would not have bothered if (some of) the victims had not been wealthy and powerful
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