article_snippet: Two months later Mr Vagnozzi asked the family to confirm in writing the family would not tell the police and asked the family to stop demanding cash.
article_snippet: Raymond Cassar, Mr Vagnozzi lawyer, thanked the U.S. Attorney's Office  for bringing the 'group to justice.'
article_snippet: In a statement to The Detroit News, Mr Vagnozzi said: 'My client is a good man who was the victim of a lengthy extortion plot by a group of individuals that conspired to take as much money from My client as a group of individuals that conspired to take as much money from him possibly could over a lengthy period of time.'
article_snippet: Mr Vagnozzi is not on The indictment because Mr Vagnozzi is considered a victim.
article_snippet: Mr Vagnozzi has not been charged in relation to having sex with the cousin who Tackett claims is underaged.