Judge Upholds Jury's Guilty Verdicts On Two Insurance Businessmen's Wire Fraud

Mealey's (August 5, 2020, 1:45 PM EDT) -- STATESVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge on Aug. 4 declined to overturn jury verdicts finding two businessmen guilty of conspiring to commit honest services wire fraud and federal funds bribery by offering millions of dollars in campaign contributions to the state's insurance commissioner in exchange for removing the public official responsible for overseeing the regulation of the one businessman's insurance companies (United States of America v. Greg E. Lindberg, et al., No. 19-CR-00022, W.D. N.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138475)....