Five executives convicted of producing a sham insurance contract between General Re Corp. and American International Group argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals that a district court committed multiple procedural missteps during their 2008 trial.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York heard arguments contending that the District Court in Connecticut erred in a number of areas, including not excluding evidence from the case, not properly instructing the jury on certain matters of law and allowing testimony from witnesses that the defendants deemed perjured.
In its brief to the Appeals Court, the government countered that whether there was an error or not, the totality of evidence was so overwhelming that it did not amount to any harm to the defendants' case.
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