WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has agreed to consider overturning the fraud conviction of media executive Conrad Black, who is serving a 6 1/2 year prison term.
The justices will hear arguments later this year over the convictions of Black, the former chairman and chief executive of the Hollinger International media company, and two other former executives in connection with payments of $5.5 million they received from a Hollinger subsidiary.
The men argued that they did not commit fraud because they did no harm to the company.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld the convictions, but the nation's appeals courts are divided on the central issue undergirding their convictions.
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