Black to return documents caught on tape being removed from headquarters

Black to return documents caught on tape being removed from headquarters

Canadian Press
Thursday, May 26, 2005


TORONTO (AP) - Deposed media baron Conrad Black has agreed to return 12 boxes of documents after a video caught him on tape taking papers from his headquarters in downtown Toronto, a spokesman for Black said Thursday.

It was a new twist to Black's venomous battle against his enemies at the Toronto holding company, Hollinger Inc.

Black is accused of misappropriating money from Hollinger and its publishing subsidiary, Chicago-based Hollinger International. He is to be evicted from Hollinger's offices at the end of the month.

Black had been barred by an Ontario court from taking any documents from the company without the permission of a court-ordered inspector.
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http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=9e72cedd-24f6-4f4f-815d-f916c1c77c39

AS PRESS BARON Conrad Black faces ouster from Hollinger International—and seems to be taking Richard Perle down with him—many Americans, blighted by the neocons’ pervasive infestation of the U.S. media, may think they can rest easier. One can’t blame them, of course, for being grateful for any reprieve. However, even though Hollinger’s illicit payments to Perle, George F. Will and a legion of neocon sympathizers have been permanently cut off, it is too soon to let down one’s guard. Since their early days as Trotskyite radicals, America’s neocons have exhibited an uncanny ability to morph into parasitic forms and attach themselves to new hosts for nurture.
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http://www.wrmea.com/archives/June_2004/0406020.html

Court orders are for lesser mortals. I'm sure the neocons and Coulters and FReakers would find a way to justify his illegal acts, too.

While of course Sandy Berger was thoroughly pilloried by the "liberal" media.

This from England:



"The move follows an internal inquiry which found that Lord Black and other executives had received more than $32m (£19m) in unauthorised payments.

The group's other assets include the Chicago Sun-Times and Jerusalem Post. It also owns some Canadian newspapers.

Hollinger said Lord Black would leave his post on Friday, but would remain as non-executive chairman.

He is your typical verbose, bombastic megalomaniac, and they never go quietly
Roy Greenslade, media commentator"

He has probably had time to go through them and take out anything incriminating.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B17B9F684%2D051D%2D4FF4%2DB5DE%2D3AD49FCA6A10%7D&siteid=mktw

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Embattled media mogul Conrad Black has been caught on videotape taking documents from the Toronto headquarters of Hollinger Inc. in violation of a court order, according to a published report Thursday.

Black faces criminal charges and lawsuits related to the alleged theft of more than $400 million from a Hollinger Inc. subsidiary over a period of seven years.

He had been prohibited by an Ontario court from taking any documents from Hollinger Inc. (CA:HLG.C: news, chart, profile) unless a designated inspector was present, the Associated Press reported.

Black has agreed to return 12 boxes of documents to Hollinger Inc., the AP said, citing a spokesman for the executive.

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