Giuliani, Trump and RICO

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 23, 2023

Jill Wine-Banks, MSNBC legal analyst, former Watergate special prosecutor, co-host of the podcasts "#Sistersinlaw" and "IGenPolitics" and the author of The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President (Henry Holt and Co., 2020), talks about the Georgia RICO indictments in the 2020 election case, and how these laws have been used in the past, and the rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani, who once utilized RICO to prosecute the mob.

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