Prosecutor: Black stole, 'plain and simple'
115311
A prosecutor accused media mogul Conrad Black and three former Hollinger International newspaper executives yesterday of systematically stealing $60 million from the company and creating an elaborate but bogus paper trail to hide the theft from shareholders.
296208
It's game over for The Game. The rapper was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone. Two other counts were dismissed under a plea agreement, the district attorney's office said.
250775
The lone undercover agent in a sting that sent dozens of black people to prison on bogus drug charges was convicted Friday of one of two perjury counts.
185527
Jurors at Conrad Black's fraud trial watched videotapes on Tuesday showing the former media baron and his chauffeur removing boxes from his Canadian offices the same day U.S. securities regulators say they told Black's lawyer he would have to surrender some records.
545026
Toppled media mogul Conrad Black snuck past reporters and entered the court from the basement on Wednesday for a trial to determine whether he and his associates stole millions of dollars as his conglomerate crumbled.
669652
NOVATO, Calif. - A man was convicted of various theft charges, after prosecutors say he stole computers from the courthouse while he was on trial for computer theft.
267222
Federal prosecutors summing up their fraud case against Conrad Black on Monday can offer the jury two theories to convict the former press baron: that he conceived and led a scheme to bilk millions from his company, or that he deliberately avoided knowing about it while filling his pockets.
332871
Former state House Speaker Jim Black, once one of the most powerful men in North Carolina government, was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in prison for illegally taking cash from chiropractors while promoting their agenda.
482432
A young black woman was held prisoner for a week in a remote area of West Virginia where she was sexually and racially abused, stabbed and forced to eat animal waste, a prosecutor said on Wednesday in a case he compared to a horror movie.
633140
Business & money: Conrad Black could face decades in prison if convicted of masterminding theft of $60m (Â£30m) from his former Hollinger media empire.
255351
Conrad Black's long-time secretary testified on Thursday that the former media kingpin did not even look inside a number of boxes she had packed and he later removed from their Canadian office in what prosecutors have depicted as a move by Black to hide important evidence.
592036
CHICAGO, June 19 -- Conrad Black's lawyer accused prosecutors Tuesday of trying to prejudice jurors against the media mogul by focusing on his affluent lifestyle while basing their racketeering and fraud case on the word of a former business partner he described as "a proven liar."
247473
Toppled media baron Conrad Black on   Friday pleaded not guilty in U.S. federal court to a third   round of charges accusing him of looting his newspaper   properties.
2705
Actor Wesley Snipes is a victim of "unscrupulous tax advice" and is being selectively targeted for prosecution on federal tax evasion charges because he is black, his attorneys argue in a motion to dismiss the indictment.
220921
A former undercover agent who sent dozens of blacks to prison on bogus drug charges refused to admit he stole gas while working as a sheriff's deputy, despite records to the contrary and an eyewitness to the theft, a county attorney testified Tuesday.
263557
Fresh allegations against former Daily Telegraph tycoon Conrad Black are expected to emerge from the courtroom filing of a long-awaited investigation into his stewardship of the newspaper empire Hollinger International.
634528
Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s to try to extract confessions from them, prosecutors reported Wednesday.