Judge gives Black 42-month prison sentence
A federal judge in Chicago has resentenced former media mogul Conrad Black to three and a half years in prison.
Prosecutors say he will be given credit for the time he has served.
The resentencing by US Judge Amy St Eve today followed an appellate court decision last year.
That court threw out two of Black’s 2007 fraud convictions. But it upheld a conviction for fraud and for obstruction of justice.
It said St Eve would have to sentence Black again for those two counts.
The Canadian-born businessman was freed on bail from a Florida prison last year as he appealed against his convictions for defrauding investors in Hollinger International.
He served two years of his original six-and-a-half-year sentence.
Black’s empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph.
