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    "Lord" Black Goes To Jail

    He'd better think up a new name; maybe a shortening of his real name would do it. Looks like throwing away his Canadian citizenship wasn't such a great idea, either; he got to buy his peership but is now locked up Stateside being ordered around by people who make less money than his servants.

    How the mighty have fallen! Maybe calling his American prosecutors "fascists" during the trial wasn't so eloquent, after all. Oh, well. It's time to scrub your toilet. Conrad

    Conrad Black starts sentence at Florida prison

    Mon. Mar. 3 2008

    Conrad Black travelled from his lavish Palm Beach mansion Monday to a Florida prison, where he will serve out his six-and-a-half year fraud sentence with white-collar criminals and drug dealers.

    Black made the four-hour trip with his wife Barbara Amiel, sitting in the back of a grey SUV with tinted windows while an unidentified driver took the wheel.

    The disgraced media tycoon will now be known as inmate 18330-424 at the Coleman Federal Correction Complex near Orlando. The prison has four facilities, ranging from the low-security detention centre where Black will be housed to a high-security penitentiary.


    "You're FUCKED!!"

    On Monday, Black was fingerprinted, photographed and strip-searched before being introduced to his cell, which he will share with a roommate.

    According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, Black's potential cellmates at the Coleman low-security prison include:
    • Liberio Bellomo, a mobster who U.S. authorities say authorized the murder of a rival gangster;
    • George Martorano, the former kingpin of a multi-million dollar drug ring, who is serving a life sentence;
    • James A. Cohen, a convicted pedophile; and,
    • A fellow Canadian fraudster, Stephen Clark, who netted $10 million in credit card fraud.
    ^ So it's not all bad!
    Black will be assigned basic jobs and will be paid between 12 and 40 cents an hour. At the peak of his career as head of newspaper empire Hollinger International, it is estimated Black made anywhere between $12,000 and $40,000 an hour."In the beginning it's really going to be yard work, kitchen duty, cleaning duty -- not exactly what he had anticipated," CTV's Lisa LaFlamme told Canada AM.

    In an email to The Globe and Mail, Black said he expected to spend time behind bars writing, praying and even teaching other inmates. But prison officials told LaFlamme that Black will start out with the same jobs as everyone else.
    A relative of one of the prison's inmates said the same thing.



    "Money doesn't matter in there," the relative said. "It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor; they treat you the same."

    The strict regime for Black and the other 2,500 prisoners will include:
    • Getting out of bed at 6 a.m. daily;
    • 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. work hours; and,
    • A head count up to seven times a day.
    CTV's legal analyst Steven Skurka, author of the new Black book "Tilted," said Black is likely to face the challenge head-on, as he has with other difficulties in his life.



    "Number one, he has a loving family and the support of friends. Number two, he doesn't want to vindicate his enemies, and I think that's going to drive him," Skurka told Canada AM.

    Peter C. Newman, a Black biographer told CTV News, said that he expected Black to survive his stay in prison but added that "he won't be the same person" when he gets out.

    There was no lavish party on Sunday at the Black mansion in West Palm Beach, Florida - a property he acquired while still the head of Hollinger, once the world's third-largest newspaper empire. Instead, it was a quiet time for Black and Amiel.

    Coleman prison has a strict visitor policy that Amiel will need to abide by including:
    • She can visit Black up to nine times a month if she visits on weekdays, but only three times a month if she comes on weekends;
    • She can only kiss or hug Black at the start of the visit and before she leaves; and,
    • She must follow a strict dress code and not dress "provocatively."
    Federal prisons in the U.S. do not allow conjugal visits.

    The 63-year-old Black was found guilty last summer on four of 13 charges stemming from his activities at Hollinger International, the arm of his empire that actually operated his vast stable of newspapers. The convictions were for fraud and obstruction of justice.

    The trial showed Black and three others had siphoned money from Hollinger by unlawfully using "non-compete" agreements -- monies paid to avoid having someone start a competing publication after having sold a newspaper in a given market -- to line their own pockets.

    Although he tried to stay out of prison pending his appeal, Black was unsuccessful.

    Two other men, Peter Atkinson and Jack Boultbee, were allowed to remain free on bail before their appeals are heard.

    The two former Hollinger International executives were convicted on fraud-related charges but not obstruction of justice. Boultbee was sentenced to 27 months and Atkinson to 24 months.
    Black's appeal process is ongoing. The trial judge's comments on the remaining fraud counts, he has said, show that the government case is a "grotesque charade."



    The appeal process could take anywhere from four months to a year to play out, Morton said.
    David Radler, Black's former business partner, preceded Black to prison, having surrendered himself last Monday.

    Because Black gave up his Canadian citizenship to serve in the British House of Lords, the British subject cannot apply to transfer to a Canadian prison.

    CTV.ca | Conrad Black starts sentence at Florida prison
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    His wife was this sickening Jew Nazi who attempted to turn some of the most welll regarded British newspapers into bizare propaganda rags while Sharon was sharpening his kinves in Palestine. If he likes being a Goyim so much perhaps he will bunk up with Cohen... the pederast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mad_dog
    If he likes being a Goyim so much perhaps he will bunk up with Cohen... the pederast.
    MD: what's a goyim?

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    Conrad doesn't seem to get it the whole you-can't-just-do-whatever-you-want part

    Conrad Black expects 'bookish' role teaching French in prison - temporarily

    Through the tinted windows of a green Cadillac, Conrad Black got his last glimpse of day-to-day freedom yesterday as he sped across the Florida countryside to begin a new life as US federal prisoner 18330-424. Accompanied by his wife, Barbara Amiel, the disgraced press baron swept past a phalanx of photographers as he emerged through the iron gates of his $28m Palm Beach mansion shortly before 9am.

    Three hours later, the car pulled into Coleman federal correctional complex near Orlando where the one-time Telegraph owner will serve his six-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice. The vehicle was inside for half an hour and emerged with Amiel as the only passenger.

    Showing characteristic defiance, Black quoted Winston Churchill in an interview with one of his former papers, Canada's National Post, declaring that his accusers "will have their fleeting moment of brutish triumph".

    "It's no real triumph for them," he added. "It's a complete travesty of justice. It doesn't bother me because it won't last long."

    The peer, who was stripped of the Conservative whip following his conviction last year, suggested he would use his time to lose weight and that he would like "something bookish" as a prison job - perhaps, he suggested, teaching French to fellow inmates.

    The one-time Telegraph owner remains adamant that he will prevail in an appeal this summer: "A moron who seriously looks at this case will see that it is a crock and I expect that it will ultimately be determined to be so."

    Once among the world's most powerful media moguls, Montreal-born Black, 63, owned more than 200 papers at the height of his career including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Jerusalem Post as well as Britain's Telegraph titles. He had a fortune estimated at £136m. He was convicted of embezzling more than $6m from his Hollinger empire through phoney "non-compete" agreements attached to the sale of newspaper titles - and of defying a subsequent court order by removing boxes of paperwork from his office.

    In a comment article published yesterday by several conservative newspapers, Black adopted a scattergun approach in assigning blame for his predicament. Those accused by Black of overlooking his innocence include the US government, dissident shareholders, a special committee of Hollinger directors set up to investigate his actions, the media, the Ontario Securities Commission and his trial jury which, Black claims, reached a "compromise" on acquittals and convictions despite reasonable doubt.

    Black's lawyer, Edward Greenspan, provided an unorthodox postscript to Black's highly complex three-month trial by admitting that he had regularly taken catnaps in court.

    "I may have slept three or four minutes a day in court," Greenspan told an audience at the University of Western Ontario, complaining that he had little sleep at night because of the mountains of documents he was forced to study.

    Conrad Black expects 'bookish' role teaching French in prison - temporarily | Business | The Guardian
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    Quote Originally Posted by klongmaster View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by mad_dog
    If he likes being a Goyim so much perhaps he will bunk up with Cohen... the pederast.
    MD: what's a goyim?
    A non-Jew.
    Literally translated, cattle.

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