Court documents: NC businessman subject of new fraud investigation

CHARLOTTE — Newly unsealed federal courtroom paperwork present prosecutors are mounting a brand new investigation right into a North Carolina businessman who was as soon as convicted in a political bribery scheme.

Paperwork filed in Charlotte accuse Greg E. Lindberg, his chief funding officer and one other worker of illegally shifting hundreds of thousands of {dollars} by Lindberg’s enterprise holdings, together with a number of North Carolina insurance coverage corporations.

Prosecutors declare the group handed over fraudulent data to cover the transactions from the state Division of Insurance coverage. They mentioned Lindberg used the cash for his private profit.

Lindberg has not been charged on this investigation.

Channel 9 has reached out to Lindberg’s legal professional’s for remark.

In the meantime, Lindberg is ready to go to trial in March. In 2020, he was sentenced to greater than seven years in jail for attempting to bribe the state insurance coverage commissioner for favors. However final 12 months, a decide vacated that conviction and ordered the brand new trial.

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