John Michael Causey (born September 11, 1950) is an American politician who has served as the
North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance
The Commissioner of Insurance is a statewide elected office in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The commissioner is a constitutional officer who leads the state's Department of Insurance. The commissioner also oversees the Office of the State Fi ...
since 2017.
John Michael Causey, a North Carolina Republican, has run for state Insurance Commissioner five times between 1992 and 2016, losing each of the first four times in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2012. In his 2016 campaign, his fifth campaign for the same office, he knocked off incumbent Wayne Goodwin in what was considered to be an upset, given his previous track record and Goodwin's incumbency.
Starting in 2017, Causey began cooperating with the FBI in the investigation of political corruption charges related to
Greg Lindberg. After his conviction, Lindberg filed a lawsuit alleging Causey made materially false representations to the State Ethics Board of North Carolina, to the FBI and under oath in federal court. U.S. District Court Judge
Catherine Eagles
Catherine Diane Caldwell Eagles (born August 30, 1958) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and a former Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina. She is th ...
later dismissed the suit
with prejudice
Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law. In legal context, "prejudice" differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings. ...
.
Electoral history
References
1950 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
North Carolina Commissioners of Insurance
North Carolina Republicans
High Point University alumni
People from Guilford County, North Carolina
State insurance commissioners of the United States
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