Billionaire Secretly Recorded Bribing State Officials

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Billionaire Secretly Recorded Bribing State Officials

March 10, 2020 at 4:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/10/billionaire-bribing-state-officials-secretly-recorded/

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A secret recording caught a billionaire bribing North Carolina officials with millions of dollars in political money — funneled through a dark money group — in return for the removal of a regulator who was responsible for overseeing his companies, the Charlotte Observer reports.

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[Beakybird]

1. Rare that these miscreants get caught.

[pecosbob]

2. I think this the same story I wrote about the other day

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/a-right-wing-billionaire-was-just-convicted-of-bribery-and-hes-dragging-republicans-down-with-him/

On Thursday, Greg Lindberg, one of the largest Republican political donors in North Carolina and a self-described billionaire insurance baron, was convicted of trying to bribe a state official who oversaw his businesses.

It’s a case that has torn the Republican firmament in the state apart—right before a pivotal election year with new maps that are expected to help Democrats pick up seats.

The April 2019 indictments against Lindberg were a bombshell. Lindberg had been secretly recorded by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey, who was working with the FBI, as the businessman tried to bribe Causey with $2 million. The charges linked state GOP Chairperson Robin Hayes to the scheme, who promptly stepped down from his role. He pled guilty and is now awaiting sentencing. (Dallas Woodhouse—dubbed the “Roger Stone” of North Carolina politics and Hayes’ second hand—stepped down too.) The indictments also revealed that Republican Congressman Mark Walker’s political action committee received $150,000 from Lindberg at the same time Lindberg was asking Walker to exert pressure on Causey. (Walker is not accused in the case.)

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3. You beat political wire.