Prosecutor labels Black a liar and thief

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News Online

Last Update: Wednesday, March 21, 2007. 8:29am (AEDT)
Prosecutor labels Black a liar and thief
By Kim Landers

The former owner of the Fairfax newspaper group in Australia has been branded a liar and a thief while on trial for fraud in a United States court.

Conrad Black was a once powerful media baron who owned newspapers including Britain's Daily Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post.

In the mid-90s he was also briefly at the helm of Australia's Fairfax Group.

Now a Chicago court has heard that Black and three associates developed a "bold" plan to strip $100 million from his American media empire for their own use.

The prosecutor has told the jury that while "bank robbers wear masks and use a gun, these men wore suits".



Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1877352.htm

[Lautremont]

1. Conrad Black is not a liar and a thief!

He's a dissimulator and a defalcator.

edited to add: and a dick.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Conrad Black's wife lashes out at media 'vermin'

Conrad Black's wife lashes out at media 'vermin'
Email this storyPrint this story 5:00AM Wednesday March 21, 2007
By Stephen Foley

The start of the Conrad Black trial was delayed yesterday but a passionate opening argument took place outside the courtroom.

Before proceedings began, Barbara Amiel-Black, wife of the fallen newspaper tycoon, lashed out at journalists covering her husband's trial on an US$84 million ($120 million) fraud.

The former columnist, whose lavish spending habits will form a significant part of the prosecution case, called the assembled media "vermin" and described a Canadian television producer as a "slut".

After being forced to travel down from the courtroom in a packed lift with journalists, Lady Black said: "You journalists are vermin. I used to be a journalist and I didn't doorstep people and I didn't hold my nose in the elevator."
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10429896

On edit, adding photo:



Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Black