From the category archives:

Hollinger

Boardroom of Felons

March 31, 2009

We have received a number of emails from readers who were shocked at the revelation, first brought to light on these pages, that, between them, the boards of Livent and Hollinger had seven directors who became convicted felons.  Here’s another gem:  three of them were trained as lawyers.  The number of felon directors on these [...]

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Conrad Black’s Losses Mount; Chances of a Presidential Pardon Do Not

December 1, 2008

Former newspaper baron Conrad M. Black’s losing streak continues unarrested. He lost control of his Hollinger companies and all his prized newspaper holdings. He lost what was left of the Argus group he essentially inherited.  He lost his criminal case, which was brought by the United States Department of Justice, and his appeal of the [...]

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The Less than August Summer of Conrad Black

August 27, 2008

The Hollinger newspaper empire he once ruled sputters to an ignominious end; the appeal he boasted waxed the floor with the prosecution results in unanimous defeat.  Even his prison garb pant legs defy the once exacting baronial standards of symmetry and perfection. August has not been good for Conrad Black, who is spending his first [...]

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Conrad Black: Lord of What Might Have Been

March 3, 2008

How strange it is that success can be such an impostor and only a warm-up for the main act of self-inflicted tragedy yet to arrive. When Lord Kylsant of Carmarthen lost all hope of appeal in 1931, the wealthy titan was taken off and spent the next year in London’s bleak Wormwood Scrubs prison. Until [...]

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The Baron of Baggage

February 5, 2008

Of all the indignities Conrad Black has had to endure, much of them admittedly at his own hands, none has been more symbolic than to go from being lauded as a British baron to being dismissed as a piece of “baggage” by the company he once headed. In our view, it has always been something [...]

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The Ides of March Beckons Conrad Black

February 1, 2008

Conrad Black’s freedom can now be measured in days -31 to be precise- as a result of U.S. federal court judge Amy St. Eve’s decision to deny the request of Mr. Black and his co-defendants to remain free while their appeals are considered. The judge found that no substantial questions existed which were likely to [...]

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Do-little OSC Does Less Again With Conrad Black

January 10, 2008

The Ontario Securities Commission has again, for the sixth occasion, delayed its proceedings against Conrad Black. This time, the hearing that was to have commenced on January 8th has been rescheduled for the end of March, the same month that Mr. Black has a rather pressing appointment elsewhere, like with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons [...]

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Hollinger Sets Another Record –And Not a Good One

December 18, 2007

Never have so many directors of a single publicly traded company been convicted on criminal charges in connection with their duties as board members. With the formal sentencing yesterday of F. David Radler today on one count of fraud following the prison terms set last week for Conrad Black, Peter Atkinson and Jack Boultbee, a [...]

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Is Elba or St. Helena Next for Conrad Black?

December 11, 2007

The otherwise avoidable fall of great men from high places always commands public attention and often history’s scorn. It is difficult to know what the future holds for Conrad Black. We learned yesterday that he has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in a U.S. federal prison. However much his friends interpret this as yet [...]

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