New trial for N. Carolina insurance magnate set for March :: WRAL.com

By The Related Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A brand new trial for a North Carolina-based insurance coverage magnate whose earlier convictions on corruption-related costs have been overturned is ready for early March, a federal choose selected Monday.

Attorneys for Greg E. Lindberg and the U.S. authorities met with U.S. District Choose Max Cogburn, who set a schedule for proceedings resulting in a tentative trial date, based on an outline of the listening to posted on the federal courts’ website.

Cogburn launched Lindberg from a minimum-security jail in Alabama final month, weeks after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals vacated Lindberg’s convictions from March 2020 and ordered a brand new trial.

Lindberg had been sentenced to greater than seven years after being convicted of making an attempt to bribe North Carolina’s insurance coverage commissioner to safe preferential regulatory remedy for his insurance coverage enterprise. The 4th Circuit panel declared Cogburn had erred by giving jurors in Lindberg’s trial deceptive directions earlier than they started deliberations.

Lindberg, who had turn out to be a big political donor in North Carolina politics earlier than his 2019 indictment, “appears to be like ahead to the chance to clear his title within the courtroom of regulation in addition to the courtroom of public opinion,” Lindberg spokesperson Susan Estrich mentioned in an emailed assertion. “The actual fact stays that the case towards Mr. Lindberg is only political.”

The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Charlotte, which helped prosecute Lindberg, declined remark late Monday.

The scheduling order and tentative March 6 trial date additionally applies to John D. Grey, a Lindberg guide convicted of the identical two counts as Lindberg. Grey additionally had his convictions vacated for a similar causes.