Judge to Conrad Black: Where are you getting $200K a month for expenses?

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Including $9000 A MONTH for gardening services? (For those who don't know, Black is the Rupert Murdoch of Canada, a wingnut with a lot of newspapers, who got caught looting them and is facing years in jail.)

Black grilled on how he's paying his bills


Conrad Black's tangled finances provoked sharp questioning Wednesday by a federal judge who wondered how the former media baron pays his $200,000-a-month living expenses -- without having an income.

Judge Amy St. Eve grilled Black's lawyer on discrepancies between a financial statement Black filed in November and one filed this week. The recent statement shows stock and a bank account of greater value than disclosed last year, for example.

Black, 61, faces charges he helped steal $84 million from Hollinger International, the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers. When charged last year, Black put up his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion to cover part of his bond. But last month, prosecutors asked for additional bond, saying Black overstated the mansion's value and lied about his finances.

St. Eve held off ruling on Black's bond Wednesday. Instead, she gave Black's lawyer until July 21 to explain the discrepancies and list all assets of Conrad Black Capital Corp., his personal holding company.

SNIP

"How is he paying those? Where is the money coming from?" St. Eve asked Black's lawyer, Ed Genson. "You know where I'm going. Is there something else out there?"

http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-conrad13.html

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1. Ah, Richard Perle's buddy and former 'employer'.

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2. The cockroach claims he has NO INCOME

And can pay gardeners $9000 a month. I want him on bread, water and sodomy FAST.