Public School Mafia: Part 1

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In 2015, Atlanta Judge Jerry Baxter sentenced ten people to almost 100 years in prison for racketeering. It ended one of the longest trials ever seen in the state of Georgia. Except this was no normal racketeering trial. This is a tale of race and class with a central question at its heart. What causes a group of upstanding citizens, revered in society, to cheat? In this first of two episodes we start to unravel the story of one of the most shocking cheating scandals in American history. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's 2015 and a pack of courthouse in Atlanta is waiting for defendants to arrive.
0:16.0	It's the sinencing hearing of one of the longest trials in Georgia's history.
0:20.0	After eight months, it's finally coming to an end.
0:25.0	The trial has been a sensation.
0:27.0	It's in the papers every day and on TV.
0:30.0	The defendants are being tried on the racketeering influence and corrupt organizations act.
0:35.0	Most of us know it as recoil.
0:37.0	It's usually associated with the mafia, designed to cast the most hardened of organized criminals.
0:42.0	Combined, these defendants are facing around 200 years in jail.
0:47.0	After about 20 minutes, they begin to file into the courtroom.
0:52.0	It's ten of them, eight men and two women.
0:56.0	The men are wearing suits and ties, the women, cardigans, and pantsuits.
1:00.0	The defendants are all black.
1:08.0	Sitting atop of his throne-like bench, the judge is white.
1:11.0	wearing a bow tie and speaking with a loud sudden draw,
1:14.0	rooted in the confidence of someone who has the fate of people's lives in hand.
1:19.0	The evidence for her case was the most overwhelming and the cold trial.
1:24.0	He's been one of the main events in this case.
1:27.0	Go to YouTube and there's even a video made just of him.
1:30.0	It's called Jerry Baxter's Best Bits.
1:40.0	One by one, people get up and give character witness.
1:43.0	They say these defendants are dedicated.
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