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T he man who put Conrad Black behind bars doesn't believe Tuesday's hearing before the United States Supreme Court will result in Lord Black getting out of jail. “There are a lot of different permutations, to be perfectly honest,” said Eric Sussman, who...
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Blitch III has been sentenced to three years probation and fined $100,000 in federal court...Blitch III has been sentenced to three years probation and fined $100,000 in federal court. Blitch pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud on Sept. 11.
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Skilling's conviction to see if he received a fair trial in the hothouse atmosphere of Houston following the collapse of the nation's seventh largest company in 2001. It will also consider whether federal prosecutors properly applied the "honest services"...
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Black was jailed for six-and-a-half years for fraud and obstruction of justice in 2007. He argues that he did not commit fraud because he did no harm to newspaper company Hollinger International, which once owned the Daily Telegraph. The 7th Circuit Court...
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County Commissioner Mary McCarty said in her resignation letter that she would plead guilty to "committing an honest services fraud."...A 28-word addendum to the federal mail and wire fraud law enacted in 1988 that has become a popular tool for federal...
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