---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 927"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "927"
heading: "Art. 127. Extortion"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/927"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §927. Art. 127. Extortion


Any person subject to this chapter who communicates threats to another person with the intention thereby to obtain anything of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity is guilty of extortion and shall be punished as a [court](/usc/10/704.md?p=c-3-A)-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 927 | 50:721. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 127), 64 Stat. 141. |

The words “of any description” are omitted as surplusage.