Hello America, welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number 877937-7-425.

Should you wish to be on the program, delighted to have you. I want to begin with what I was talking about at the end of the last hour.

Had a caller calling about the rapper Gunna and Young thug and others they were arrested in may

relating to a gang surprise uh prosecutors claim that ys l that's not eve st laurel that is actually

um young slime life.

Prosecutors claim it's a violent gang that has committed murder, shootings, carjacking,

over the last decade, that the rappers promoted the gang's activities and songs and on social

media. The rapper Gunna said that he, when he joined in 2016, he didn't consider it a gang,

but like a group of people from Metro Atlanta who had common interests of artistic aspiration.

And my focus was entertainment or a rap artist who wrote and performed music,

then exaggerated and glorified urban life in the black community.

And he cherishes his association with the music and always will.

So he was got on Rico.

Rico is a way to explain it.

Rico is essentially a way to explain it. Your Rico is essentially a way to take various crimes that are unrelated on the surface and show that they are all part of an overall conspiracy to engage in criminal activity by a group. So one person may have stolen something.

One person may have committed murder.

One person may have committed forgery.

One person may have committed fraud.

One person may have lied to federal officials.

They can all be woven together to show these are all individually distinct crimes,

but they are tied together through RICO, Racketeering Influenced and

Corrupt Organizations Act.

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