Thursday, April 05, 2007

Defense in Black trial slams witness on payments

CHICAGO, April 5 (Reuters) - Some of the payments at the center of Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial were reported to U.S. government regulators in a timely fashion and not hidden as prosecutors have suggested, jurors were told on Thursday.
Under cross examination, Fred Creasey, a former comptroller at Black's Canadian holding company Hollinger Inc., was shown a document bearing his name by defense lawyer Patrick Tuite.

Creasey had testified on Wednesday that some of the money paid to Black and his associates from newspaper property sales in 2000 did not show up in regulatory filings that Hollinger's U.S. subsidiary, Chicago-based Hollinger International, had made until May 2001.
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