Million Dollar Prison Kickback

American Greed Podcast

CNBC

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris Epps charms his way up the ladder, from prison guard to the top post of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner. Once in office, he and his businessman buddy, Cecil McCrory set up shop, siphoning kickbacks and bribes from nearly a billion-dollars’ worth of prison contracts. (Original airdate 11/15/22)

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0:00.0	This is the American Greek podcast presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keach.
0:07.0	In this episode of American Greed, the 81 billion-dollar business of mass incarceration,
0:15.0	and how head-of-prisoned Chris Epps makes a killing in the lock-em-up state of Mississippi.
0:21.0	Aaron has been a career criminal. He's known for playboy and jawboy and likes to crack a lot of joke.
0:29.0	He's not doing a lot of joke in the day.
0:32.0	What he control was just amazing.
0:35.0	What Epps controls, as the state's prison commissioner, is a $350 million dollar a year gold mine.
0:42.0	Chris Epps gives?
0:44.0	If Epps said a person should get this contract, he would.
0:49.0	Like, he deserved to wear a Rolex watch. He deserved to drive him or say he's been.
0:54.0	Condos down in the Gulf Coast.
0:57.0	Why would one business partner be paying another business partner's home mortgage?
1:03.0	That's not out of the goodness of your heart. That's not an accident.
1:06.0	Because Chris Epps knows everything from a bag of chips to a phone call home has a price tag.
1:12.0	All of these services, businesses, are competing for, and they're worth a lot of money.
1:17.0	And he's running one of the largest pay-to-play schemes in Mississippi history.
1:22.0	Chris Epps touched everything and it turned out almost everything Chris Epps touched was corrupt.
1:29.0	Chris Epps likes to say he's the tallest hog at the truck.
1:34.0	At some point we reminded him that hog is typically the first to get slaughtered.
1:48.0	At the FBI office in Jackson, Mississippi, the feds have called a friendly meeting
1:59.0	with prison commissioner Christopher Epps, head honcho of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
2:05.0	Type red love is a special agent with the FBI.
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