(CNN) An actor and two other people face 20 years in prison after they confessed to trying to extort $198,000 from a former New York pizzeria owner in a plot federal officials described as similar to a mob shakedown.

Douglas Singer, Leroy Wilson and Marianne Wood each pleaded guilty Tuesday to an extortion conspiracy involving an unnamed victim in Brooklyn.

The incident started last year after the victim sold his pizzeria in a building he owned to Singer, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.

The victim sold the pizzeria for $60,000, a $15,600 security deposit and monthly rent payments of $5,200, according to the court documents.

From there, the business deal turned into a scene from a mobster movie, complete with a muscle man in a dark outfit and sunglasses.

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