Conrad Black’s sentence overturned

A U.S. appeals court has reversed two of the four charges brought against the former media mogul.

Black was convicted on four counts of fraud in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years in prison, but went free on bail in July while his lawyers appealed the verdict. Today a court overturned his conviction on two of the charges, and he will now be resentenced to a lesser term. The judge ruled that two of the charges were brought against Black in error, but that didn’t change the fact that he obstructed justice by removing boxes of documents from his office days before he was to be evicted. The investigation was prompted by Black’s collection, along with other Hollinger executives, of $5.5 million in payments from the sale of the publishing company’s assets.