Disgraced media baron Conrad Black remains optimistic about clearing his name, according to one of his friends. Black has completed one year of his six-and-a-half-year sentence in a Florida prison for fraud and...
Luckily for David Radler, the National Parole Board says it doesn't really know what to do about the former newspaper executive's basic problem:"Your greed has resulted in this sentence and the Correctional Service...
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Conrad Black's quest for a presidential pardon has attracted a prominent cult leader."It appears that Conrad Black, the former proprietor of the Daily Telegraph now jailed in Florida for corporate fraud, has a new...
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Defiant to the last, former media mogul Conrad Black started his 6 and a half year sentence today at the Coleman-Low Federal Correction Complex in Florida. Black still insists he is innocent of all charges and...
March Third: just a month away. Black's appeal has been unsuccessful. "Conrad Black has lost his bid to remain out of prison while he appeals his fraud and obstruction-of-justice convictions and must prepare to go...
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Stevie Cameron has always maintained that it's never been about
vindication. Exposing the unsavory activities of corrupt politicians
and other white collar criminals just happened to be all in a day's
work for...
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My knowledge of the American Revolution is somewhat limited, but I'm pretty sure that this is the first time the rebels south will have put a British Lord behind bars in defiance of our beloved Monarch. Today is another milestone in the evolution or devolution of those...
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I also have a personal encounter with Conrad Black; it was early this year, a couple of months before he was to stand trial in Chicago. I was given a ticket to attend the opera at the new opera house here in...
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I had a brief and bruising encounter with Conrad Black o, I don't know, maybe 15 years ago. Or so. I can't remember exactly. I had been assigned to cover a speech he was giving at the Canadian Club (the very...
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial ordered the jury to keep deliberating on Tuesday after the panel said it was deadlocked in reaching a unanimous decision on the former media baron and his three co-defendants."
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Associated Press is reporting that the jury in the Conrad Black trial cannot come to a verdict and have asked the judge for instructions.Here's the alert from AP:CHICAGO (AP)
_ The jury in the racketeering and...
Conrad Black is in Chicago this week being tried by a jury of middle class mid-westerners. I worry that his defense team has misread the rhetorical and logical habits of their judges. The local team kept it...
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Conrad Black is wisely staying quiet at his fraud trial. The same can't be said for his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, who spouted insults at journalists after her husband's fraud trial was adjourned briefly Monday.
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"Along with its connection to Brian Mulroney, Archer Daniels Midland, ADM, the major beneficiary of subsidies for bio-fuels in the United States and Canada has a connection with Conrad Black. Other ADM directors and toadies, including former Ambassador Richard Burt...
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"Paul Stanway editor and columnist with the Edmonton Sun and former Edmonton Sun reporter Tom Olson the political affairs columnist for the Calgary Herald are Premier Fast Eddie Stelmachs new media mouthpieces. Several other Edmonton Sun legislative affairs reporters...
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