Media Mogul Conrad Black Back In Prison
MIAMI (CBS) -- Media mogul Conrad Black has reported back to prison, and will be there for the next 13 months to serve out his sentence for defrauding investors.
Black, 67, reported around noon Chicago time Tuesday to the FCI Miami Florida, a low-security prison in Miami, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke.
Black had served 29 months of a 6 1/2 year-sentence at another facility, FCI Coleman, about 50 miles north of Orlando, Fla., before he was released on bond in 2010 as his appeal rose to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In June, U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve said he must serve 13 more months of his sentence for defrauding investors in Hollinger International, Inc., which once controlled the Chicago Sun-Times.
He did not get his wish to return to the same facility.
Black was convicted in 2007 of defrauding shareholders and trying to conceal evidence, but the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out two of his fraud convictions.
Once he has completed his sentence, he will be ordered out of the country, as he is a non-citizen with a felony conviction.
Meanwhile, Black has filed a lawsuit against former business partner, F. David Radler, whose testimony helped put him in prison.
Black sued Radler in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday, accusing him of actions that illegally hurt the value of Black's stake in Horizon Publications Inc,, a Marion, Ill.-based chain of small newspapers. Radler controls a 50 percent stake in Horizon while Black owns 27 percent, the suit said.
Calling Radler "an infamous Canadian citizen" and referring to his "Cain-like betrayal of Lord Black," the complaint accuses him of illegally adding shareholders and debt to Horizon.
Radler, former publisher of the Sun-Times, was paroled after serving of a 29-month prison term for his role in the Hollinger fraud and testified against Black.
The Chicago Sun-Times contributed to this report, via the Sun-Times Media Wire.
