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Posted by: Kate Prince on Mar 15, 2022

Former Nissan U.S. executive and Williamson County resident Greg Kelly yesterday returned to Tennessee after a nearly four-year legal battle, the Nashville Post reports. A Japanese court found Kelly guilty of underreporting pay for his former boss, Carlos Ghosn. He was acquitted of several other charges. He was allowed to return home to Tennessee following his suspended sentence. Kelly maintains his innocence and plans to appeal the conviction in a Japanese court, arguing that he was targeted by some Nissan executives out of fear of a potential merger with a French company. “This was a case where a trial showed there was no crime,” Kelly said. He was welcomed home by U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty who called Kelly’s situation “very regrettable.”