Joe Works in the Mayor's Office as a Tax Assessor

Joe works in the mayor's office as a tax assessor. He hears and decides on the validity of claims by homeowners seeking to lower their tax assessment. Joe tells one such homeowner that the only way to get a tax break is to pay a "filing fee" directly to Joe. Joe also sends out phony filing fee forms to dozens of other homeowners, and when one homeowner threatens to go to the mayor, Joe growls that would be an "unhealthy" idea.

A) The veiled threat against the one homeowner whose decision to inform the mayor would be an "unhealthy" one for him, would bring ____ charges against Joe. ​
B) extortion
C) bribery
D) kickback
E) honest services fraud