Conrad Black
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The Right Honourable The Lord Black of Crossharbour KSG |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 31 October 2002 currently on Leave of Absence |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Conrad Moffat Black 25 August 1944 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality |
Canadian (1944–2001) British (1999–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Joanna Hishon (1978–1992; union dissolved) Barbara Amiel, Lady Black (m. 1992) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | George Montegu Black II, Jean Elizabeth Riley |
| Residence | Toronto, Ontario |
| Education |
Carleton University (B.A.) Université Laval (LL.L.) McGill University (M.A.) |
| Occupation | Former newspaper publisher, author, columnist, broadcaster, investor |
| Net worth | $80 million (2011) |
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| Criminal charge | Mail fraud, obstruction of justice |
| Criminal penalty | Sentenced to 6½ years imprisonment. Reduced to 42 months following appeal and resentencing. |
| Criminal status | Served 29 months before being granted bail pending a Supreme Court ordered review of his case. Reported to the Federal Correctional Institution, Miami on 6 September 2011 to serve an additional 13 months as a result of re-sentencing. He was released on 4 May 2012, due to good conduct credits shortening his sentence by five months. |
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Date apprehended
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Surrendered 3 March 2008 11:52 am |
| Imprisoned at | Coleman Federal Correctional Complex (inmate number 18330-424) |
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. He is a non-affiliated life peer.
Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before he was fired by the board of Hollinger in 2004.
In 2004, a shareholder-initiated prosecution of Black began in the United States. Over $80 million in assets were alleged to have been improperly taken and/or spent by Black. He was convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of justice in a U.S. court in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. In 2011, two of the charges were overturned on appeal and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison on one count of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. Black was released on 4 May 2012, after serving 37 months in prison. In recent years, Black has written numerous newspaper columns in the National Post praising or supporting Donald Trump.
Black was born in Montreal, Quebec, to a wealthy family originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father, George Montegu Black, Jr., a Chartered Accountant, was the president of Canadian Breweries Limited, an international brewing conglomerate that had earlier absorbed Winnipeg Breweries (founded by George Black Senior). Conrad Black's mother was the former Jean Elizabeth Riley, a daughter of Conrad Stephenson Riley, whose father founded The Great-West Life Assurance Company, and a great-granddaughter of an early co-owner of The Daily Telegraph.
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