@Marshall Sutherland (Posting with Hubzilla) New Yorkers may be oblivious to the realization that the question even exists in this case and one is quite sure that the reasonable among them would indeed, think that the slate would be clean for their efforts.

However,  one doubts very much, that anything will ever clean the slate, or close the case, since the purpose of extortion is the same, I think, as blackmail and the gang will always want continuous streams of payments until they've exhausted all, including every pound of flesh.