United States v. Black

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ST. EVE, District Judge.

On August 17, 2006, a grand jury returned a seventeen-count third superseding indictment (the “Indictment”) naming four individual Defendants — Conrad M. Black, John A. Boultbee, Peter Y. Atkinson, Mark S. Kipnis — and a corporate Defendant, the Ravleston Corporation Limited (collectively, “Defendants”). The Indictment charges that Defendants committed the following offenses: (1) mail and wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, including the deprivation of the intangible right to honest services, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §…