Tuesday, June 26, 2007

UPDATE 1-Prosecutors say Conrad Black's defense failed

(Reuters) - CHICAGO, June 26 - Prosecutors trying to seal
their case on Tuesday against former media baron Conrad Black
and his associates told jurors about to decide their fate that
defense lawyers failed to refute the core fraud charges against
the four men.




Instead they "cobbled together a defense, taking a phrase
from a memo here and a sentence from an e-mail there," said
lead prosecutor Eric Sussman, "but never taking on the
accusations head-on."


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