Court clerk: Bail hearing for jailed ex-media mogul Conrad Black set for Wednesday in Chicago
By APTuesday, July 20, 2010
Conrad Black bail hearing set for Wednesday
CHICAGO — A federal court clerk says ex-media mogul Conrad Black’s bail hearing will be held Wednesday in Chicago.
The clerk says the hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve will begin at 8:45 a.m.
Black is in a federal prison in Coleman, Fla., where a prison official says he’ll stay until they’re is notified officially that a judge has set bond and the conditions of that bond.
An appellate court on Monday granted Black bail just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the “honest services” fraud law that was the basis of Black’s 2007 conviction, and kicked the case back to a lower court.
He was convicted along with three other former executives from the media empire Hollinger International of swindling the company’s shareholders out of $6.1 million.
