Is George Soros a Racketeer?

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Is George Soros a racketeer? The billionaire currency speculator, who in 1992 netted $1 billion by shorting the British pound and bringing the Bank of England to its knees, controls a large network of leftwing activist organizations from under the umbrella of his Open Society Foundations. Days ago, President Donald Trump threatened Soros and his son, Alex, with prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a 1970 law providing for extended criminal penalties against participants in ongoing criminal organizations. The law was meant to be a weapon for prosecutors against the Mafia, but it has been used in other contexts as well. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers discuss.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably
0:16.0	done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.
0:22.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:31.6	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.3	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.7	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. Well, you might have had a bad six months,
0:54.4	but consider George Soros. In January, he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and now President
1:00.4	Donald Trump is saying he should be charged under RICO. Is this the direction we want to go? What is
1:06.8	Rico? And would it actually apply to George Soros and his activities. We're going to unpack that
1:12.2	today, the co-host and co-pilot of this program, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? How have your six
1:16.7	months been? Probably not as good as George Soros because despite all the circumstances that you just laid
1:23.7	out, he is after all still a billionaire. So he's probably okay. You know, as the kids say, his cope is okay. He's okay. George is fine. Well, so, you know, Donald Trump, of course, a lot of people now know, tweeted out that George Soros and his son, Alex, should be charged under RICO. You know, a lot of people think, oh, this is a, you know, a crazy tweet from a Donald Trump. But actually the fact that matter is,
1:47.3	is Rico has been used to You know, a lot of people think, oh, this is a, you know, a crazy tweet from a Donald Trump.
1:45.5	But actually, the fact of the matter is, is RICO has been used in the past.
1:49.2	We're going to unpack this.
1:50.6	And there are perhaps instances which would speak to the fact that RICO could potentially apply against George Soros.
1:58.4	But you were telling me earlier as we were talking about
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