CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Billionaire insurance plan magnate Greg Lindberg has been indicted again by a federal grand jury. This second indictment is for expenses relevant to alleged fraud Lindberg and his staff carried out by means of his network of insurance policies organizations.
A grand jury indicted Lindberg on expenses which include conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, cash laundering conspiracy and two expenses linked to bogus statements about his business.
The indictment, handed down Thursday but made general public on Friday by the Western District of North Carolina, arrives following FBI brokers used a long time combing as a result of his company’s economic records.
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Lindberg was indicted in 2019 in a general public corruption circumstance, alongside with two political operatives and then-N.C. Republican Bash Chairman Robin Hayes, a previous congressman. In that situation, Lindberg was accused of striving to bribe Insurance coverage Commissioner Mike Causey for favorable regulatory rulings on Lindberg’s insurance plan firms.
Hayes pleaded responsible but was afterwards pardoned by then-President Donald Trump. Lindberg was convicted in the corruption circumstance in 2020 but that conviction was later on overturned. Federal prosecutors approach to re-test that circumstance.
Thursday’s indictment in the organization fraud case will come right after two top rated staff in Lindberg’s insurance policies businesses pleaded guilty.
WBTV first documented that a Lindberg personnel pleaded responsible in December. A next staff pleaded guilty in January and entered into a cooperation settlement with federal prosecutors.
In a statement, Susan Estrich, Lindberg’s spokesperson, said the most current costs stem from the government’s investing more than 5 decades going as a result of around 7 million paperwork on “literally 1000’s of challenging economic transactions involving more than 900 companies” and handpicking alleged complex violations that did not cause any decline to N.C. policyholders or people in any other condition.
“The Government is piling on. Their previous circumstance versus Greg Lindberg was constructed on lies and collapsed on charm when the Court docket observed his rights ended up violated,” Estrich’s statement browse, in aspect. “Greg was wrongly convicted, his constitutional legal rights were being violated, and he was sent to prison even however he did not question for any official action, only for truthful regulation, as he will confirm when he is retried in November.”
N.C. Coverage Commissioner Mike Causey also challenges a assertion reacting to Lindberg’s indictment.
“The indictment issued by the grand jury yesterday paints a grim image of an operator who has regularly put his private achieve over the curiosity of the insurance plan companies’ policyholders to the tune of hundreds of tens of millions of dollars,” Causey mentioned.
“The Office of Insurance policies is thoroughly supportive of the government’s initiatives to keep Mr. Lindberg and some others dependable for their steps, and remains hopeful that this prosecution will end result in the restoration of money that can be used to repay policyholders. In the meantime, the Department will keep on performing to guarantee that all of the policyholders are paid what they are owed.”
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