Six-and-a-half-year sentence for Conrad Black

Disgraced media baron Conrad Black was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail today.

Lord Black of Crossharbour swindled shareholders out of more than six million dollars (€4.1m) in a fraud conspiracy with three colleagues.

Last month, Black said he would beat the charges against him on appeal.

The jury found the 63-year-old illegally received $3.5m (€2.3m) as they convicted him of three counts of fraud and one of obstruction in the $60m (€40.7m) fraud trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois, in July.