New trial for N. Carolina insurance magnate set for March
FILE – This undated photograph offered by Robert Brown General public Relations displays Greg E. Lindberg. A new demo for the North Carolina-centered insurance magnate whose earlier convictions on corruption-relevant prices had been overturned is set for early March 2023, a federal decide resolved on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (Robert Brown General public Relations/Greg Lindberg by using AP, File)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.
A new trial for a North Carolina-primarily based insurance policies magnate whose past convictions on corruption-related fees ended up overturned is set for early March, a federal judge decided on Monday.
Attorneys for Greg E. Lindberg and the U.S. federal government satisfied with U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, who set a plan for proceedings leading to a tentative trial date, in accordance to a description of the hearing posted on the federal courts’ website website.
Cogburn unveiled Lindberg from a minimum-protection prison in Alabama very last month, weeks immediately after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals vacated Lindberg’s convictions from March 2020 and ordered a new trial.
Lindberg experienced been sentenced to far more than seven many years just after becoming convicted of attempting to bribe North Carolina’s insurance commissioner to secure preferential regulatory remedy for his insurance plan company. The 4th Circuit panel declared Cogburn experienced erred by offering jurors in Lindberg’s trial deceptive instructions before they commenced deliberations.
Lindberg, who had turn out to be a big political donor in North Carolina politics ahead of his 2019 indictment, “looks ahead to the prospect to obvious his name in the courtroom of regulation as properly as the courtroom of general public belief,” Lindberg spokesperson Susan Estrich claimed in an emailed statement. “The reality continues to be that the scenario versus Mr. Lindberg is purely political.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte, which aided prosecute Lindberg, declined remark late Monday.
The scheduling order and tentative March 6 demo day also applies to John D. Grey, a Lindberg expert convicted of the similar two counts as Lindberg. Grey also experienced his convictions vacated for the same good reasons.
