Conrad Black has asked President George W. Bush for a pardon.
Conrad Black, the former chairman and chief executive of the Hollinger International media company, and two other former executives are urging the justices to hear their case because federal appeals courts around the country are divided on the central issue undergirding their convictions.
Conrad Black is asking the Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice.A federal appeals court in Chicago already has upheld the convictions, for which Black is serving a 6 1/2-year prison term.Black, 64, and former executives John A. Boultbee and Mark S. Kipnis contend in an appeal filed Friday that they can't be convicted of fraud because they did no harm to Hollinger International.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling rejecting their claim "sharply conflicts with the decisions of at least five courts of appeals," Miguel Estrada, their Washington, D.C., lawyer, wrote in court papers.Conrad Black, the former chairman and chief executive of the Hollinger International media company, and two other former executives are urging the justices to hear their case because federal appeals courts around the country are divided on the central issue undergirding their convictions.Black also has asked President George W. Bush for a pardon.He was convicted in 2007 of siphoning off millions of dollars belonging to Hollinger when he was chief executive officer of the company that once owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Telegraph of London, the Jerusalem Post and hundreds of community papers across this country and Canada.All of Hollinger's big papers except the Sun-Times have now been sold and the company that emerged changed its name to Sun-Times Media Group.
Conrad Black is asking the Supreme Court to overturn his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice.A federal appeals court in Chicago already has upheld the convictions, for which Black is serving a 6 1/2-year prison term.Black, 64, and former executives John A. Boultbee and Mark S. Kipnis contend in an appeal filed Friday that they can't be convicted of fraud because they did no harm to Hollinger International.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling rejecting their claim "sharply conflicts with the decisions of at least five courts of appeals," Miguel Estrada, their Washington, D.C., lawyer, wrote in court papers.Conrad Black, the former chairman and chief executive of the Hollinger International media company, and two other former executives are urging the justices to hear their case because federal appeals courts around the country are divided on the central issue undergirding their convictions.Black also has asked President George W. Bush for a pardon.He was convicted in 2007 of siphoning off millions of dollars belonging to Hollinger when he was chief executive officer of the company that once owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Telegraph of London, the Jerusalem Post and hundreds of community papers across this country and Canada.All of Hollinger's big papers except the Sun-Times have now been sold and the company that emerged changed its name to Sun-Times Media Group.
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