From today's Toronto Star:
Black lieutenant to plead guilty
Fallen media baron's firm, execs indicted
Conrad Black's legal problems appeared to take a serious turn for the worse yesterday when his long-time business partner agreed to co-operate with the U.S. Department of Justice, giving it a crucial ally in its criminal probe of the besieged newspaper baron.
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"Today's indictment charges that insiders at Hollinger, whose job it was to safeguard the shareholders, made it their job to steal and conceal," the U.S. Attorney's Office wrote.
I spent an afternoon interviewing Conrad Black many years ago, for the late, lamented Financial Times of Canada. Like everyone else, I came away vaguely repulsed by his arrogance, but dazzled by his intellectual brilliance.
As a businessman, though, he spent way too much time with lawyers.
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