Conrad Black "Lord Black of Crossharbour" headed to prison

[susu369]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071208/ap_on_bi_ge/conrad_black

Convicted newspaper baron faces prison By MIKE ROBINSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer
Sat Dec 8, 12:20 AM ET

Conrad Black, the brash media mogul who vacationed in Bora Bora, rode around London in a Rolls Royce and ended up convicted of swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars, is headed for prison where inmates are paid 12 cents an hour for such jobs as washing windows and mopping floors.

Strong willed, possessed of a powerful ego and given to dizzying flights of rhetoric, the 63-year-old British baron known as Lord Black of Crossharbour is expected to be sentenced Monday. Federal prosecutors say the sentence could be as much as 24 to 30 years, though a recent court filing suggested he could get a more lenient term.

Any stay in the pen will be an inglorious next step for a man who famously brushed aside questions about his expenses as boss of the Hollinger International Inc. newspaper holding company

"I will not re-enact the French Revolutionary renunciation of the rights of the nobility," Black said when asked about his use of the corporate jet for a vacation on the South Pacific island of Bora Bora. When grumbling about money went on, the CEO chortled that his company had become awash in "an epidemic of shareholder idiocy."

Under Black, Hollinger was a media colossus that once owned The Daily Telegraph in London, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Jerusalem Post, plus hundreds of community newspapers across the United States and Canada.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Oh yeah.

His stay in this less-than-four-stars hotel is gonna be quite the study in contrasts. Something tells me His Grace is gonna have to rachet it down a bit.

[susu369]

2. I rather doubt that his old business partner Perle

will be visiting him.

[jimshoes]

3. The rights of the nobility?

May you make many friends in your new digs conrad.:nopity:

[PassingFair]

4. Wow! He talks to the "little people" like they were ACTUAL people!

He's SWELL!

I hope he cleans toilets for the next 10 years.

[spanone]

5. his money will provide a nice prison stay.....money talks inside and out