Conrad Moffat Black
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The Right Honourable The Lord Black of Crossharbour KSG |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 31 October 2002* Life Peerage *currently on leave of absence |
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Conrad Moffat Black 25 August 1944 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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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, Canada |
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Carleton University (B.A.) Université Laval (LL.L.) McGill University (M.A.) |
| Occupation | Former newspaper publisher, financier, historian, commentator, columnist |
| Net worth | $80 million (2011) |
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| Criminal charge | Mail fraud, obstruction of justice |
| Criminal penalty | Initially sentenced to 6½ years imprisonment. Reduced to 42 months following appeal and re-sentencing and after the sentence had largely been served. |
| Criminal status | Served 29 months before being granted bail pending a Supreme Court ordered remand of the remaining counts which the high court vacated to the circuit of appeals for consideration of its errors, as the Supreme Court declared the statute under Black was convicted to be, as his appeal claimed, unconstitutional. Reported to the Federal Correctional Institution, Miami on 6 September 2011 to serve an additional 7 months as a result of re-sentencing. He was released on 4 May 2012, and returned to Canada. It was conceded by the court that he had been a constructive influence in both prisons where he was detained. |
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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 British former newspaper publisher, author, and convicted felon. 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), most of the leading newspapers in Australia and Canada and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets.
Black was born in Montreal, Quebec, to a well-to-do family originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father, George Montegu Black, Jr., a Chartered Accountant, became the president of Canadian Breweries Limited, an international brewing conglomerate that had earlier absorbed Winnipeg Breweries. 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. His father was a shareholder in the Daily Telegraph.
Biographer George Toombs said of Black's motivations: "He was born into a very large family of athletic, handsome people. He wasn't particularly athletic or handsome like they were, so he developed a different skill – wordplay, which he practiced a lot with his father." Black has written that his father was "cultured [and] humorous" and that his mother was a "natural, convivial, and altogether virtuous person." Of his older brother George Montegu Black III (Monte), Black has written that he was "one of the greatest natural athletes I have known", and that though "generally more sociable than I was, he was never a cad or even inconstant, or ever an ungenerous friend or less than a gentleman.". The Black family maintains a family plot at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto where Black's parents and brother are buried along with his good friend and his wife's former husband, journalist, poet and broadcaster, George Jonas.
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