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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Craig McDonald, Brandon L. Garrett

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks about fighting political corruption Texas-style with Craig McDonald, director of Texans For Public Justice and professor Brandon L. Garrett fills us in on the depth of American corporate crime with his book Too Big To Jail.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.9

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.9

You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. I'm David Feldman along with the man of the

0:21.8

hour Ralph Nader.

0:23.6

Steve Scrovan is flying home from Canada

0:26.0

as we speak, so he'll be with us next week.

0:28.8

On today's show, we talk about corporate criminals

0:31.5

with the author of Too Big to Jail, Brandon L. Garrett.

0:35.8

Our focus on white collar crime continues with Russell Macabre, our corporate crime reporter,

0:42.3

and we go to Texas to meet Craig McDonald,

0:44.6

whose non-profit watchdog group played a major role in three separate and unrelated indictments

0:52.2

of former Texas Governor Rick Perry, the current Texas Attorney

0:56.2

General Tom Paxton, and former Majority Leader Tom Delay.

1:00.8

That's a pretty remarkable track record.

1:03.0

I'd like to remind you that the Ralph Nader Radio Hour is also available as a

1:06.7

podcast on iTunes or over at Ralph Nader Radio Hour.com.

1:11.8

We have a lot to cover, so let's get right to it.

1:15.0

Craig McDonald is the founder and director of Texans for public justice, a nonprofit that

1:19.5

organized in 1997 to take on political corruption and corporate abuses in Texas.

1:25.0

Texans for public justice has served as an aggressive watchdog over the role of money in Texas politics and the Texas courts.

1:33.4

Mr. McDonald and the organization have been featured by many national news

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