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Bet on Black? The trial of a mogul.(Conrad Black)

National Review

| April 02, 2007 | O'Sullivan, John | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT promises, even at this early date, to be the trial of the century. The international media magnate, Lord Black of Crossharbour, born Conrad Black in Canada, is on trial in Chicago for a variety of white-collar crimes from mail fraud to tax evasion relating to his management of the companies Hollinger Inc. and Hollinger International. Black had built up a media empire that included the two Telegraph papers in Britain, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, the Southam newspapers in Canada, and a North American chain of local and regional papers under the Hollinger umbrella. His board of directors included such impressive names as Henry Kissinger. He was elevated by ...

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