That further defines the crime but you can be fired for giving the finger to a Trump motorcade. Power can abuse people in ways to extort and punish in many ways. If Ignoring the 'NO' is a crime then so is the extortion. Is the mere threat of extortion a crime? If so the biggest extortion tool of the FBI investigator is a crime.

It then depends upon who legally extorts and who criminally extorts.
There are tricky legal arguments here that are not black and white.