Conrad Black bail hearing set for Wednesday

[July 21, 2010]  CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal court clerk says ex-media mogul Conrad Black's bail hearing will be held Wednesday in Chicago.

The clerk says the hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve will begin at 8:45 a.m.

Black remains in a federal prison in Florida, and an official there says he'll stay there until the prison is notified officially by the court that a judge has set bond and the conditions of that bond.

An appellate court on Monday granted Black bail just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the "honest services" fraud law that was the basis of Black's fraud conviction, and kicked the case back to a lower court.

A spokesman for the federal prison in Coleman, Fla., says Black does not necessarily have to attend the hearing.

[Associated Press]

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