CHICAGO — Conrad Black got some good news in his long-running legal saga when U.S. prosecutors announced Thursday that they don’t intend to retry the former media mogul on fraud convictions that an appellate court had tossed out.
During the status hearing in Chicago, Judge Amy St. Eve also set a June 24 resentencing date for Black on two convictions that appellate judges did uphold in October. Defence attorneys asked for a June date to give them a chance to appeal Black’s case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Black — whose media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph of London and smaller papers across the U.S. and Canada — was freed on bail from a Florida prison last year as he appealed his 2007 conviction for defrauding investors in Hollinger International Inc.