A federal grand jury yesterday indicted the former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and prosecutors signaled that he is cooperating with a criminal investigation into alleged improper dealings by media tycoon Conrad M. Black.
F. David Radler, who was Black’s second in command at Hollinger International Inc., is assisting the authorities and is expected to plead guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with deals that enriched him and other top executives by more than $32 million, prosecutors said.
The indictment charges that Radler, former top Hollinger lawyer Mark S. Kipnis and other, unidentified executives improperly profited from sales of media properties in an empire that included the Sun-Times, London’s Daily Telegraph, the Jerusalem Post and scores of other newspapers.
