Posted on 12/10/2007 11:45:40 AM PST by Cecily
CHICAGO (AP) -- Former newspaper mogul Conrad Black was sentenced Monday to 6.5 years in prison for swindling shareholders in his Hollinger International media empire out of millions of dollars.
Black, 63, a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords renowned for his lavish lifestyle and flamboyant way with words, had faced up to slightly more than 8 years in prison under sentencing guidelines determined earlier Monday by U.S. District Judge Amy J. St. Eve.
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Its because he’s black!
Yet another idiot who promoted the idea of an “Anglosphere.” Goodbye and good riddance to a pseudoaristocratic crook.
Mark Steyn’s commentary on this should be interesting.
He already did comment on this, the trial at any rate, sorry but I have no link for you.
Was the sentence twice as long because of his 10,000-page book on FDR?
No justice, no peace!
“IF THE SHAREHOLDERS DON’T THROW A FIT! YOU MUST AQUIT!
I don’t know about that - the whole trial sounded like a case of a prosecutor gone wild. That prosecutor BTW is none other than the same US Attorney responsible for the Plamegate / Scooter Libby prosecution.
can’t get a jury of your peers when you are a billionaire.
Good luck getting acquitted if you are insanely rich and NOT a celebrity. Just keep drinking until the marshalls come to take you away...
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