Unfertilized egg purchases, plans for private nation among unusual facts that surface in bribery trial

>> SUCH A DIFFICULT SITUATION,

AND CUMBERLAND COUNTY, THANKS

BRIAN.

>> THE STATES MOST POLITICAL

DONOR WAS SENTENCED TO SEVEN

YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR HIS

ROLE IN A SCHEME TO BRIBE

NORTHGLENN INSURANCE

COMMISSIONER.

GREG LINDBERGH IS SURE TO

APPEAL BUT THE SENTENCING

CLOSES THIS AND A MASSIVE

SCANDAL.

FORMER CONGRESSMAN WAS A PART

OF THE SCHEME HE GOT OFF WITH

PROBATION, WITH FEDERAL

PROSECUTORS SAYING HE HELPED IN

THE PROSECUTION.

FEDERAL COURTROOMS BUT TRY THE

SAME IN CHARLOTTE YESTERDAY FOR

THE PROCEEDINGS AND HE JOINS US

NOW.

TRAVIS, WHY SO MUCH TIME FOR

LINDBERGH BUT NOT FOR HAYES WHO

FACED MORE CHARGES, DID HIS

HEALTH CARRY THAT MUCH WEIGHT

IN THIS CASE.

>> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION AND

ALL WE REALLY KNOW IS WHAT

PROSECUTORS WILL TELL US THAT

HE'S COOPERATED WITH THEM TO

DESPITE LYING TO FEDERAL

INVESTIGATORS ABOUT THE SCHEME.

THAT SCHEME IN A NUTSHELL WAS

TO FOLLOW CAMPAIGN DONATIONS,

REELECTION CAMPAIGN.

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN

EXCHANGE FOR A LIGHTER TOUCH

FROM REGULATORS ON LINDBERGH'S

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

HAYES CAME IN BECAUSE HE WAS

CHAIRMAN OF THE STATE

REPUBLICAN PARTY AND $250,000

OUT OF WHAT WAS ULTIMATELY A $2

MILLION PROMISE, 250 GRAND

FLOATED THROUGH THE STATE PARTY

TO GET AROUND CAMPAIGN GIVING

RULES.

HE'S NEVER TESTIFIED IN THE

TRIAL AND MOST OF THE EVIDENCE

AGAINST LINDBERGH CAME FROM

WIRETAPS BECAUSE CALLS RECORDED

THEIR MEETINGS AND PHONE CALLS

FOR THE FBI.

THE JUDGE MADE IT CLEAR LAST

NIGHT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT,

LINDBERGH INSISTS HE WAS

ENTRAPPED HERE AND HE DID NOT

BREAK THE LAW.

>> LINDBERGH IS A WEALTHY MAN

WITH CONNECTIONS ALL AROUND THE

WORLD, IS ARE CONCERNS THAT HE

IS A FLIGHT RISK?

>> THERE ARE.

SOME OF THE REASONING FROM

PROSECUTORS ON THAT IS PRETTY

INCREDIBLE.

APPARENTLY, ONE OF THE EMAILS

THEY SEIZED FROM HIS COMPUTERS

IS HIM USING ABOUT BUYING LAND

ON A RUSSIAN PENINSULA AND

SETTING UP WHAT AMOUNTS TO HIS

OWN COUNTRY.

HE HAS A PRIVATE JET, A YACHT.

HE HAS BANK ACCOUNTS,

PROSECUTOR SAID IN 18 COUNTRIES

, SENDING MONEY FOR YEARS TO

RUSSIA AND CAUSE EXTEND WHICH

IS NEAR RUSSIA, APPARENTLY TO

BUY UNFERTILIZED EGGS FROM

WOMEN OVER THERE.

PROSECUTORS SUGGESTED LAST

NIGHT THAT THIS MIGHT BE A FRONT

TO SCROLL MONEY AWAY OVERSEAS,

OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS,

HE'S HAD ONE CHILD FROM AN EGG

HE PURCHASED FROM A CALIFORNIA

MODEL AND THE BABY WAS CARRIED

BY SURROGATE MOTHER.

AT ANY RATE, THE JUDGE

ACKNOWLEDGED THE FLIGHT RISK

LAST NIGHT WAS SAID TO

LINDBERGH CAN STAY IN THE

FEDERAL BUREAU PRISON UNTIL