
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.
The judge had mandated that the defendants return their juror lists once jury selection ended at the end of April. But two of the defendants did not do so, Andrew Mohring, one of the attorneys representing defendant Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff, said in a…