Conrad Black
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 Conrad Black facts

• 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
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• ), 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, after Black determined to reduce involvement in the newspaper industry as the threat of the internet loomed
• nIn 2004, 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
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• 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