Conrad Black, Honest Services & Jeffrey Skilling

Jeffrey Skilling was convicted of "honest services fraud" in a huge landmark case involving financial dealings with Enron, that brought the company to bankrupcy and essentially stole a billion dollars from innocent people. But now Skilling and Conrad Black have both been seeing new hope of having their convictions overturned,

Jeffrey Skilling, the man convicted and considered responsible for the huge accounting fraud scandal that ruined Enron and left them bankrupt, is taking his case before the Supreme Court this week, seeking to have that landmark conviction overturned.

Skillings attorneys claim that after the financial collapse of Enron, and the loss of thousands of jobs and a billion dollars of employee retirement funds, that it was impossible to get a fair trial in Houston where it all took place.

Conrad Black, Honest Services & Jeffrey Skilling
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Disgraced press baron Conrad Black received a boost in his quest for a release from prison today as US supreme court judges peppered prosecutors with sceptical questions over the controversial fraud law at the centre of his conviction. Several of Black's family members including his daughter, Alana and his elder son, James, were in a packed public gallery at the highest court in America for a last-ditch appeal by the 65-year-old peer to overturn his six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice. Black, who is incarcerated in Florida, was not allowed to attend...

Conrad Black, Honest Services & Jeffrey Skilling