S9 Ep 13: Who's Rico?

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has been on the books for more than half a century, and Georgia’s version was enacted in 1980. The 13th episode of Season Nine of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast — “The Trump Grand Jury” — takes a deep look at RICO. The episode traces its origin as a prosecutorial weapon to take Mafia dons off the streets. It also looks at how RICO has been used in recent years against schoolteachers, a metro Atlanta sheriff and street gangs. Legal experts following the Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigation into what happened here after the 2020 presidential election say that racketeering charges could ultimately be brought in this case. Episode 13 — “Who’s Rico?” — also looks at a key member of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s legal team: Don McGahn. McGahn is one of three lawyers hired by Graham who contends the U.S. Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause protects him from having to honor his out-of-state material witness subpoena and testify before the special grand jury. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. You can also stream it above. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's worth knowing which really going on.
0:04.0	This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:11.0	Previously on Breakdown.
0:14.0	Let there be no doubt.
0:16.0	While I strongly disagree with the court's decision, I accept it.
0:21.0	I accept the finality of this outcome which will be ratified next Monday in the electoral college.
0:27.0	And tonight for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.
0:34.0	The 2020 election was rigged and sold and now our country is being destroyed by people who got into office through cheating and through fraud.
0:44.0	I think considering the Trump is pretty clearly a target of the investigation or certainly is a very leased-day person of very considerable interest.
0:55.0	He's in the middle of everything.
0:57.0	The part of the investigation is his own phone call.
1:01.0	He and many of his cronies, admitted cronies have been called to testify.
1:07.0	I think it's unthinkable that the guy in the very middle of this and the guy whose phone call started it up would not be called in an investigation.
1:16.0	Welcome back to season 9 of Breakdown.
1:18.0	The podcast from the Atlanta Journal Constitution covering Georgia's most important cases.
1:23.0	We are continuing our coverage of the Special Purpose Grand Jury investigation into what happened here after the 2020 presidential election.
1:31.0	I'm Bill Rankin, the HAC's Legal Affairs Reporter.
1:34.0	And I'm Senior Reporter to Mar Hallerman.
1:37.0	Coming up, we take a deep dive into the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
1:43.0	This is episode 13.
1:46.0	Who's Rico?
1:47.0	Of season 9 of Breakdown, the Trump Grand Jury from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.