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.

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