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NEWS | Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Black gets 6 and a half years

A judge sentenced former media mogul Conrad Black on Monday to 6 and a half years in prison for obstructing justice and defrauding shareholders in one-time newspaper publishing empire Hollinger International Inc., and ordered him to report to prison in 12 weeks.
“You’ve committed a very serious offense, Mr. Black,” Judge Amy St. Eve of the U.S. District Court told the 63-year-old Black as he stood before her, but her sentence was at the low end of federal guidelines.
“Frankly I cannot understand how someone of your stature, on top of a media empire, could commit such acts,” she added before imposing the sentence, which also carried a fine of $125,000 and an order that he forfeit $6.1 million.


12 December 2007
ISSUE NO. 515


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