Mealey's (August 30, 2022, 1:15 PM EDT) -- STATESVILLE, N.C. — After the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals vacated convictions in an alleged $2 million bribery scheme and remanded the case for a new trial, a North Carolina federal judge on July 26 granted a consultant’s unopposed motion for release and bond pending further proceedings, then on Aug. 29 entered an oral order continuing the new trial “to the March 2023 criminal term,” the case docket shows....