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I prefer to rehabilitate extortionist (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

profiteer

'extortionist' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'i prefer to rehabilitate' is the wordplay.
'rehabilitate' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'rehabilitated' mean this).
'i'+'prefer'+'to'='ipreferto'
'ipreferto' is an anagram of 'PROFITEER'.

(Other definitions for profiteer that I've seen before include "killings his speciality?" , "Racketeer" , "One making excessive gains from trading" , "one who makes too much in business" , "He charges too much in times of scarcity" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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