Swindler Black Ordered to Jail

Former media tycoon Conrad Black, convicted of swindling millions from his newspaper empire, will be behind bars by Monday night, reports the Chicago Sun-Tribune. A Chicago court ruled that he couldn't remain free on bail while awaiting a decision on his appeal. Black has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for obstruction of justice and defrauding shareholders of Hollinger International, once the third-largest publisher of English-language newspapers in the world.

Two of Black's co-defendants who were sentenced to shorter stints will be allowed to remain free for now. The one-time press baron, forbidden by the court from returning to his native Canada, has been living in his Florida mansion since the guilty verdict in July. He has been ordered to report to a low-security Florida prison Monday. "He is a strong person. He will cope," said his attorney. (More Conrad Black stories.)