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Conrad Black, Former Media Mogul, Released From Prison

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.04.2012

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TORONTO — Former media mogul Conrad Black arrived in Canada on Friday and was spotted kissing his wife, playing with their dogs and roaming the ...

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Conrad Black Returns To Prison

AP | Posted 11.07.2011

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MIAMI — Officials say former media mogul Conrad Black has returned to federal prison in Florida to finish his sentence for defrauding investors....

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Conrad Black To Report Back To Prison In September

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

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CHICAGO — A federal judge says former media mogul Conrad Black must head back behind bars in two months. A sentencing order released Monday say...

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Conrad Black Going Back To Prison, Wife Faints During Chicago Hearing

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 08.24.2011

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CHICAGO — Conrad Black, once a media mogul whose newspaper empire spanned several continents, is headed back to prison after a federal judge rul...

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Federal Judge To Resentence Media Mogul Conrad Black

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 08.23.2011

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CHICAGO — Competing portraits of Conrad Black – once one of the world's most powerful media moguls – will be on display Friday in Ch...

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Conrad Black Appeal Rejected By Supreme Court

AP | Posted 07.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from former media mogul Conrad Black challenging his two remaining convictions on fraud and obs...

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Conrad Black To Be Resentenced In June

AP | Posted 07.10.2011

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CHICAGO — The resentencing of former media mogul Conrad Black on two remaining convictions remains on track for next month. Black appeared Mond...

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Experts: Proposed Ethics Bills Could Withstand Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.09.2011

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Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk (R) and Rep. Mike Quigley (D) announced Monday that they are working together to tighten federal ethics laws. Ex-prosecutors s...

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Conrad Black Hopes To Remain Free, Hearing Set

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Conrad Black got some good news in his long-running legal saga when U.S. prosecutors announced Thursday that they don't intend to retr...

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Conrad Black Trashes Murdoch: 'Monosyllabic,' 'Mumbling' 'Shark'

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Murdoch is a great white shark, who mumbles and furrows his brow compulsively [with] orange-dyed hair... a man who is airtight in his ruthlessness, un...

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Chicago Appeals Court To Hear Case Against Conrad Black

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — An attorney for Conrad Black invoked a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling and Disney character Minnie Mouse in asking appellate judges...

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Some Fraud Convictions Overturned Against Media Mogul Black

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A federal appeals court on Friday reversed two of former media mogul Conrad Black's 2007 fraud convictions – raising at least th...

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Conrad Black Due In Chicago Court Today

AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A federal judge ordered Conrad Black to surrender his passport Friday, meaning the former media mogul can't return to his home in Cana...

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Conrad Black Granted Bail: Ex-Media Mogul Getting Out Of Jail

AP | DON BABWIN and SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Conrad Black, the brash former newspaper magnate who lived extravagantly before his 2007 federal conviction for defrauding shareholder...

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Yo, Congress, Keep on Truckin' -- Can You Dig It?

Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is an obligation upon those drafting laws and regulations to do so with sufficient clarity so as to convey what precise conduct is proscribed or...

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Conrad Black, Jailed Former Chicago Sun-Times Owner, Seeks Bail Pending Appeal

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Jailed former newspaper magnate Conrad Black is seeking bail now that the U.S. Supreme Court has kicked his 2007 fraud conviction back...

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One Blagojevich Too Many

Matt Farmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time for the feds to cut Robert Blagojevich loose. Let the man get back to Tennessee and reclaim what remains of his old life.

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Chicago Justice and Lord Black

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have thought about Conrad Black often since we had dinner in a posh Palm Beach club one night in February 2008, just weeks before he went to jail.

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Conrad Black Is My Hero

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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What happens to a man who has everything taken from him but who utterly continues to believe in himself, no matter how unreasonably? Conrad Black will be a Petri dish of the self.

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WATCH: Conrad Black Released From Prison, Free On $2M Bond

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Former media mogul Conrad Black quietly left a federal prison in the blazing central Florida heat Wednesday, free on bond after servin...

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Conrad Black's Bond Set At $2 Million, Could Be Released Wednesday

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Former media mogul Conrad Black quietly left a federal prison in the blazing central Florida heat Wednesday, free on bond after servin...

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Conrad Black Wriggles Free

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who cares right? There's much bigger jail news today. Lindsey Lohan's time is at last up. But even if he is still largely unknown in the lower 48, Co...

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What's Behind the "Honest Services" Decision?

James D. Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rarely do U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg on the left and Scalia and Thomas on the right agree on anything, but on Thursday they did.

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SUPREME COURT FINALLY GUTS HONEST-SERVICE FRAUD

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court gutted the honest-services fraud statute --"depriv[ing] another of the intangible right of honest se...

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PHOTOS: Fraudster Conrad Black's Mega-Mansion For Sale

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Newspaper magnate Conrad Black is in jail, serving a 6.5-year sentence on charges of fraud and obstruction of justice related to a scheme in which he ...

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