OA423: White Collar Crime Explained, with Randall Eliason
Opening Arguments
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4.3 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
*note that this episode was recorded before RBG's death and the resulting tenfold increase in existential doom feelings*
If you're a keen listener, you might remember last time we had Prof. Randall Eliason on, he teased his forthcoming Great Courses Course! Well, it has now forth-come. Here's his new course! It's on White Collar Criminal Law, and boy does that sound relevant to.. *gestures broadly at the entire current administration*.
In the first segment we answer whether or not Trump could be charged with manslaughter for all the slaughtering of man he did by lying about COVID-19.
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| 0:00.0 | My guys are still under a Judicial Mistrainsman order. That blue thing I got from her! |
| 0:19.8 | I've got the best lawyer, soft-talkers, Gambeye. |
| 0:27.8 | Objection. |
| 0:28.5 | On white ground. |
| 0:29.4 | How about silly-much, Your Honor? |
| 0:35.2 | I think legal terms are magic words that can force people to do what I want. |
| 0:45.3 | My client has instructed me to remind the court how rich an important is, |
| 0:49.7 | that he is not like other men. |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life |
| 0:59.2 | lawyer. This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P. Andrew Torres, LLC, |
| 1:03.6 | for entertainment purposes, is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client |
| 1:08.4 | relationship. Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 423. I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. How you doing, |
| 1:23.2 | Andrew? I'm doing fantastically well. Doing better this episode, much happier than the last one, |
| 1:28.9 | I assume. I mean, it doesn't get much worse. |
| 1:33.8 | And you can't do better than having Randall Iason on as a guest. |
| 1:37.1 | Absolutely. Can't wait to get Randall on. In the meantime, the spreadsheet, it says, |
| 1:43.2 | Upcoming Alan Dershwitz has lost his several exploits and then mind. Care to explain? |
| 1:49.6 | Yeah, I think we can safely keep our clean rating and say, |
| 1:53.6 | Alan Dershwitz has lost his goddamn mind. Alan Dershwitz has filed a |
| 1:58.7 | $300 million libel lawsuit against CNN for portraying him as, quote, an intellectual who |
| 2:07.2 | had lost his mind, end of quote. And I just not related to the Epstein stuff, I just assume |
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