"Jackson is a veteran at mediating between warring parties shaking down warring parties under the pretext of mediating."
About 20 years ago when Jesse was extorting from companies right and left, his family "bought" the largest distributor of Anheuser Busch products in the country, the Chicago distributorship, for one million bucks. This was obviously a payoff to avoid a threat as that distributorship had to be worth at least 50 million then, probably a billion now.
Yes; and IIRC he used similar tactics when dealing with the PLO and other Middle Eastern groups in the 1980s. He would threaten to turn support in the US against them unless they paid a "protection" fee. I think there's some stuff on this in Kenneth Timmerman's book.