A deal where both sides benefit in the form of sweetheart deals and bid rigging is more common, and can be charged as extortion, but straight up shakedowns of construction companies still go on. For example, the Genovese family was charged back in 2004 with extorting over $2 million from contractors, through their control of Roofers Union Local 8, in exchange for using non-union labor. The contractors who balked would have their projects "loaded up" with more costly union workers; which could lead to them going under.