Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
Trump's assault on the Justice Department, his extortion of foreign allies, his obsession with domestic enemies all rhyme with Nixonian villainy and go further.
Most say that the security situation is linked to the economy and that those who commit cyber fraud, extortion, piracy and robbery do so because they have no legitimate way to participate in the economy.
A statement from Paul Pogba signed by his mother, his agents, and his lawyer said the video was no surprise and was in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang.
He dispatched his Treasury secretary to Kyiv this month to negotiate with Ukraine's leader, then began ratcheting up the pressure publicly in what appeared to critics like a Mafia don's extortion scheme.
Incidents of the extortion and abusing involving police officers were not uncommon in Rio de Janeiro but this particular incident will raise concerns 6 months before the summer Olympic.
Over the past 10 days, there have been reports of arbitrary arrests, detention, torture, extortion, armed robbery and also reports of physical violence and restrictions on movement of the civilians.
Morelos, just south of Mexico city, has become one of the country's most violent states in recent years. Rival cartels control drug trafficking and extortion rings in different towns.