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Juror in $250 million fraud case has $120,000 cash bribe delivered to her door in sack — with note promising more
A juror in a Minneapolis trial related to $250 million in stolen pandemic aid reported that she had a sack with $120,000 in cash delivered to her door — and a note promising more if she voted to acquit. The bribe was delivered to the juror’s home in on Sunday evening — just hours before the jury was due back in court to hear the final closing arguments in the trial. Juror 52, a 23-year-old woman, was not home when the bag was dropped off but immediately notified police after family at the house showed it to her. “This is completely beyond the pale,” said Assistant US Attorney Joseph Thompson in court on ... (full story)