CHARLOTTE — A new trial for a North Carolina-based insurance executive whose previous convictions on corruption-related charges were overturned is set for early March, a federal judge decided Monday.
U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn released Greg E. Lindberg from a minimum-security prison in Alabama last month, weeks after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Lindberg’s convictions from March 2020 and ordered a new trial.
Lindberg “looks forward to the opportunity to clear his name in the court of law as well as the court of public opinion,” Lindberg spokesperson Susan Estrich said in a statement. “The fact remains that the case against Mr. Lindberg is purely political.”
The scheduling order and tentative March 6 trial date also applies to John D. Gray, a Lindberg consultant convicted of the same two counts as Lindberg. Gray also had his convictions vacated.