| Conrad Black  AKA Conrad Moffat Black
Born: 25-Aug-1944
Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Rapacious newspaper mogul One-time owner of the Daily Telegraph, Jerusalem Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and approximately 200 other publications. Under scrutiny for receiving an apparent $7.2M in "unauthorized non-competition payments", Black resigned his position as CEO of Hollinger International on 17 November 2003 to attend to his legal troubles. The twin Barclay brothers David (parts hair on right) and Frederick (parts hair on left) purchased Black's stake in Hollinger for a reported $467M. In 2007 Black was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for swindling Hollinger shareholders out of $6M, but was released early in July 2010 as a consequence of the US Supreme Court's paring down of "honest services fraud" law. Incarceration did not dampen his loquacity; Black continued to write a column for the National Post from FCI Coleman Low prison in Florida.
Renounced Canadian citizenship to accept a peerage from Queen Elizabeth. Father: George Montegu Black, Jr. (d. 1976 accident - fall)
Mother: Jean Elizabeth Riley (d. 1976)
Brother: Montegu Black (older, d.)
Wife: Joanna Catherine Louise Hishon (birth name: Shirley Gail, m. 1978, div. 1991, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Jonathan-David Black
Son: James Patrick Leonard Black
Daughter: Alana Whitney Elizabeth Black
Wife: Barbara Amiel (b. 1940, m. 1992)
High School: Upper Canada College (expelled for selling exams)
University: BA History, Carleton University (1965)
Law School: Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Law School: JD, Laval University (1970)
University: MA, McGill University
Hollinger International CEO (1978-2003)
The Jerusalem Post (1989-)
The London Daily Telegraph (1985-)
The New York Sun
The Chicago Sun-Times
The Sydney Morning Herald (1991-)
National Post Founder (1998-)
The National Interest Chairman, Intl. Advisory Board (past)
Member of the Board of Hollinger International (as Chairman, 1978-2004)
Member of the Board of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Member of the Board of CanWest Global Communications
Member of the Board of Sotheby's
Bilderberg Group
Council on Foreign Relations International Advisory Board
Fraser Institute Board of Trustees (former)
Hudson Institute
Institute for International Economics Board of Directors
Nixon Center Board of Directors
White's Club
Order of Canada 1990
Renounced Canadian Citizenship 2001
Life Peerage 31-Oct-2001
Expelled from School
Converted to Catholicism formerly Anglican (1986)
Took the Fifth Chicago, IL (22-Dec-2003)
Mail Fraud indicted 17-Nov-2005, guilty of 3 counts
Wire Fraud indicted 17-Nov-2005, not guilty
Money Laundering charged 15-Dec-2005, not guilty
Obstruction of Justice charged 15-Dec-2005, guilty of 1 count
Racketeering charged 15-Dec-2005, not guilty
Wedding: Donald Trump and Melania Knauss (2005)
Risk Factors: Depression
Author of books:
Duplessis (1977, biography)
Conrad Black: A Life in Progress (1993, memoir)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (2003, biography)
The Invincible Quest: The Life of Richard Milhous Nixon (2007, biography)
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