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Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. He is a non-affiliated life peer, and a convicted felon in the United States for fraud. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire,〔Financial Post: ("Conrad Black moves to end Hollinger CCAA" )〕 which published ''The Daily Telegraph'' (UK), ''Chicago Sun Times'' (U.S.), ''The Jerusalem Post'' (Israel), ''National Post'' (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before he was fired by the board of Hollinger in 2004.
In 2004, a shareholder-initiated prosecution of Black began in the United States. Over $80 million in assets was claimed to have been improperly taken or inappropriately spent by Black.〔("Black guilty on 4 charges, including obstruction" ), ''CTV'', 13 July 2007.〕 He was convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of justice in a U.S. court in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. In 2011, two of the charges were overturned on appeal and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison on one count of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.〔BBC News ("Conrad Black ordered back to prison" ) 24 June 2011.〕 Black was released on 4 May 2012.
==Early life and family==
Black was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a wealthy family originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father, George Montegu Black, Jr., C.A., was the president of Canadian Breweries Limited, an international brewing conglomerate that had earlier absorbed Winnipeg Breweries (founded by George Black Sr.). Conrad Black's mother was the former Jean Elizabeth Riley, a daughter of Conrad Stephenson Riley, whose father founded the Great-West Life Assurance Company, and a great-granddaughter of an early co-owner of the ''Daily Telegraph''.
Biographer George Toombs said of Black's motivations: "He was born into a very large family of athletic, handsome people. He wasn't particularly athletic or handsome like they were, so he developed a different skill – wordplay, which he practiced a lot with his father."〔 Black has written that his father was "cultured () humorous" and that his mother was a "natural, convivial, and altogether virtuous person."〔Black, C. (1993). ''A Life in Progress.'' Key Porter Books. ISBN 1-55013-520-1.〕 Of his older brother George Montegu Black III (Monte), Black has written that he was "one of the greatest natural athletes I have known," and that though "generally more sociable than I was, he was never a cad or even inconstant, or ever an ungenerous friend or less than a gentleman."〔("Remembering my older brother Mario Monte" ), ''National Post,'' 22 October 2011.〕
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