Resentencing for former media mogul Conrad Black on track for June 24

The resentencing of former media mogul Conrad Black on two remaining convictions remains on track for next month.

Black appeared Monday for a 10-minute hearing in federal court in Chicago where U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve confirmed she will resentence Black on June 24.

An appeals court reversed two of Black’s four convictions last year, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling curtailing the “honest services” laws used to convict him of defrauding investors in Hollinger International Inc.

The court also upheld two convictions — one for fraud and one for obstruction of justice. Black has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of those convictions.

Black’s media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph of London, Jerusalem Post, the Toronto-based National Post and dozens of other papers across the United States and Canada.

The Canadian-born businessman and author was freed on bail from a Florida prison last year. He has served two years of a 6 1/2-year sentence for the original four convictions.

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