Two of the seven defendants facing a federal fraud trial in Minnesota, where a juror was allegedly offered a cash bribe in exchange for an acquittal, flouted a court mandate to hand back a list containing the jury's personal information, an attorney for one of the defendants has alleged. All of the defendants, their attorneys and prosecutors had access to the list, which was provided by the court in April when the trial over the alleged misuse of Covid relief funds began, officials said.
On the eve of deliberations Sunday night, a juror said a woman delivered a gift bag full of cash and left it with a relative, according to an FBI search warrant affidavit. The jurors’ names have not been made public, but the visitor knew the woman’s first name and told her relative that there would “be more of that present tomorrow” if the juror agreed to vote not guilty, the affidavit said.