Secret recording captured North Carolina billionaire Greg Lindberg bribing a city insurance commissioner.

A hidden camera reportedly caught a North Carolina billionaire bribing a state official with millions of dollars in campaign funding to convince him to replace a regulator overseeing the mogul’s insurance companies. Greg Lindberg was convicted March 5 of using campaign funding to bribe North Carolina’s insurance commissioner, Mike Causey, who was taping their interactions as part of a federal sting, according to The Charlotte Observer. Lindberg and his cohorts asked Causey several times during a March 2018 meeting to replace regulator Jackie Obusek because Lindberg believed Obusek had smeared his business' reputation, the newspaper reported.

Causey can be heard asking, “What’s in it for me” in the video, obtained by The Charlotte Observer. Lindberg responds, "But I think the play here is to create an independent expenditure committee for your re-election specifically, with, you know, a goal of raising $2 million or something.” Lindberg explains that "the beauty of" an independent expenditure is "corporate donations are allowed and they're unlimited," so Causey won’t have to be involved. "It's none of your business, but we're going to set it up," Lindberg says, "and I can put in a million or two, or whatever. I could be the sole donor.”