Jonathan Eig

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434 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 18 Feb

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Most people have some sympathy for the bootleggers.

So Johnson agrees to this plea deal.

Capone agrees to the plea deal.

And then at the last minute, the judge squashes it, says, no, we're going to trial.

Well, Judge Wilkerson was a wild card here.

And he was getting pressure from Washington to make sure Capone did some serious time.

And when the plea bargain came in, it had to be approved by the judge.

And Capone had agreed to two and a half years.

Georgie Q. Johnson was content with that.

He wanted a sure thing.

He wanted to get Capone off the streets.

And when they came before Judge Wilkerson, Wilkerson said, no, I'm not happy with this.

You don't get to make this plea bargain without my approval and I don't approve.

So we're going to trial.

And Capone's lawyers and Capone himself were flustered.

You know, they thought they had made a deal.

They thought that this was set.

On what basis did the judge make his decision?

No one knows why Judge Wilkerson threw out the plea bargain, but we do have a couple of clues.

One is that Capone made the really stupid mistake of bragging about his plea deal to reporters before it was announced.

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