MEDIA & ADVERTISING

Maxwell Fraud Trial Begins: A prosecutor accused two of the late Robert Maxwell’s sons, Kevin and Ian, of conspiring in 1991 to defraud pensioners in an attempt to prevent the collapse of their father’s vast media and publishing empire. Alan Suckling told a packed London courtroom at the trial’s opening that Kevin, 36, bears the heaviest responsibility. The sons and defendants Larry Trachtenberg and Robert Bunn, both of whom have been directors at Maxwell companies, have pleaded not guilty.