Conrad Black, jailed in the USA in 2007 for fraud, was the former publisher of which UK daily newspaper?
"Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, convicted US felon, and author. In 2007, Black was convicted on four counts of fraud in U.S. District Court in Chicago. While two of the criminal fraud charges were dropped on appeal, a conviction for felony fraud and obstruction of justice were upheld in 2010 and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison and a fine of $125,000. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published ""The Daily Telegraph"" (UK), ""Chicago Sun-Times"" (U.S.),"
"longer be controversial and he could ""make an application like any other person who has been a temporary resident. It is not clear when or if he would be accepted, but has been a temporary for over five years with a full work permit. Black has written an autobiography and three substantial biographies of controversial 20th-century figures, plus a full-scale history of Canada: Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG (born 25 August 1944) is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, convicted US felon, and author. In 2007, Black was convicted on four counts of fraud in"
""""", an investigation into corruption in English football. Bower's joint biography of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel """" was published in November 2006. In February 2007, Black filed a libel suit in Toronto against Bower over the contents of the book. The suit was frozen when Black was convicted of fraud and imprisoned. The ""Daily Express"" proprietor Richard Desmond brought a libel action against Bower over a passing reference in ""Dancing on the Edge"". Desmond claimed that the book included an account of an incident that weakened his ""super-tough"" reputation as a businessman and was therefore defamatory. Bower denied libel"
"Canadian citizenship to gain a British peerage. That year, Hollinger International bought the Chicago-area publications of Copley Press (""The Herald News"", ""The Beacon-News"", ""The Courier-News"", and ""Lake County News-Sun"", along with several smaller papers). Conrad Black was fired by the Hollinger International board in 2004 for fraud. He attempted to sell his stake to the Barclay brothers in January 2004 and the brothers launched a takeover bid for the rest of Hollinger International. However the sale was blocked by a judge in the United States after the company's board lodged a court action against the sale. The Barclay brothers later"
"""The Jerusalem Post"" (Israel), ""National Post"" (Canada), most of the leading newspapers in Australia and Canada and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before controversy erupted over the sale of some of the company's assets. Black was born in Montreal, Quebec, to a well-to-do family originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father, George Montegu Black, Jr., a Chartered Accountant, became the president of Canadian Breweries Limited, an international brewing conglomerate that had earlier absorbed Winnipeg Breweries. 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"
"Ladbroke Black Ladbroke Lionel Day Black (21 June 1877 – 27 July 1940) was an English journalist and author who wrote mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories, often under pseudonyms such as Lionel Day, Lewis Jackson and Paul Urquhart. Black was born in Burley-in-Wharfedale and was educated in Ireland and at Cambridge. His father Charles Ingham Black was the curate of Burley, and his grandfather the Irish pirate/smuggler John Black (""Black Jack""), who built Elsinore Lodge at Rosses Point, Sligo. Black was appointed assistant editor of ""The Phoenix"" 1897–99 before taking up a similar position with ""The Morning Herald"" in"
"shows, such as ""Top Gear"", ""Parkinson"", ""Breakfast with Frost"", and ""Question Time"". In July 1999, Conrad Black – the then proprietor of ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Spectator"" – offered Johnson the editorship of the latter on the condition that he abandoned his parliamentary aspirations; Johnson agreed. He brought in contributions from figures whom he had known from his past and, while retaining ""The Spectator""s traditional right-wing bent, he also welcomed contributions from leftist writers and cartoonists. Under Johnson's editorship, the circulation of ""The Spectator"" grew by 10% to 62,000 and it began to turn a profit. His editorship also"
"Telegraph Media Group The Telegraph Media Group (TMG, previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Sunday Telegraph"". It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group in July 2004, after months of intense bidding and lawsuits, from Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian-born British businessman Conrad Black. In 2015, TMG made an operating profit of £51 million. Profits before tax were £47m, and turnover for the 53 weeks up to 3 January 2016 was £319m, according to unaudited accounts leaked to ""The"
"Guardian"". If these figures are accurate, then this was an increase from 2014 levels on both accounts. Telegraph Media Group The Telegraph Media Group (TMG, previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Sunday Telegraph"". It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group in July 2004, after months of intense bidding and lawsuits, from Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian-born British businessman Conrad Black. In 2015, TMG made an operating profit of £51 million. Profits before tax were £47m, and turnover for"
"Radler, Alta and RISN Operations. Sam Grippo, Glacier's chairman of the board, was a group publisher at Hollinger during Radler's time as COO. Continental Newspapers Canada Ltd. publishes three daily newspapers and one combined weekend newspaper: Continental Newspapers Continental Newspapers, formally known as Continental Newspapers Canada Ltd., is a Canadian daily newspaper publisher based in Kelowna, British Columbia. It publishes two British Columbia dailies and ""The Chronicle-Journal"" of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Continental is one of two Canadian newspaper companies run and partially owned by David Radler, a former business partner of Conrad Black who was convicted of defrauding their company,"
"a corporate account, including US$2,463 (£1,272) for handbags, $2,785 for opera tickets, and $140 for Amiel's ""jogging attire"" fiction and has pointed out that they were never alleged at trial. Black was ranked 238th wealthiest in Britain by the ""Sunday Times Rich List"" (2003), with an estimated wealth of £136m. Having departed the country, he was dropped from the 2004 list. Black is a former Steering Committee member of the Bilderberg Group. Black was convicted on four counts in U.S. District Court in Chicago on 13 July 2007. He was sentenced to serve 6½ years in federal prison and to"
"News UK News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group), is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ""The Times"", ""The Sunday Times"" and ""The Sun"" newspapers and its former publications include the ""Today"", ""News of the World"" and ""The London Paper"" newspapers. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc. On 31 May 2011 the company name was changed from News International Limited to NI Group Limited, and on 26 June 2013 to News"
"first newspaper to be launched by News International rather than bought. It was an evening freesheet distributed at bus and rail stations in London. It was published five days a week from September 2006 to September 2009, when it closed faced with competition from other free papers. News UK News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group), is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ""The Times"", ""The Sunday Times"" and ""The Sun"" newspapers and its"
"Telegraph"", ""The Sunday Telegraph"", and ""The Spectator"" after months of intense bidding and lawsuits. ""The Telegraph Group"" was owned by Hollinger Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the newspaper group controlled by the Canadian-born British businessman Conrad Black. As part of the February 2004 judgment, an American judge, Leo Strine, accused the Barclay brothers of being ""less than fully candid"", adding they had ""remained silent while Lord Black misled the Hollinger Inc. International board"", remarks that incurred the brothers' wrath, with David branding the criticisms ""grossly unfair"". The brothers' period as newspaper proprietors has been more tumultuous than their property interests."
"also championed the cause of Marie Black. Ms. Black fled the UK with her partner and daughter in order to evade social services. Ms. Black was subsequently convicted of 23 charges of serious sexual offences against children, including rape. Christopher Booker Christopher John Penrice Booker (born 7 October 1937) is a British journalist and author. In 1961, he was one of the founders of the magazine ""Private Eye"", and has contributed to it since then. He has been a columnist for ""The Sunday Telegraph"" since 1990. He has taken a stance which runs counter to the scientific consensus on a"
"Continental Newspapers Continental Newspapers, formally known as Continental Newspapers Canada Ltd., is a Canadian daily newspaper publisher based in Kelowna, British Columbia. It publishes two British Columbia dailies and ""The Chronicle-Journal"" of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Continental is one of two Canadian newspaper companies run and partially owned by David Radler, a former business partner of Conrad Black who was convicted of defrauding their company, Hollinger Inc. Both Continental and Alta Newspaper Group are descendants of Horizon Operations (Canada) Ltd., a company Radler founded at the end of the 1990s. The newspapers that currently make up Continental were purchased from The"
"published by 11 newspapers—""The Sun"" and ""News of the World"" (News International), ""Daily Express"", ""Sunday Express"" and ""Daily Star"" (Northern & Shell), ""Daily Mail"", ""London Evening Standard"" and ""Metro"" (Associated Newspapers), ""Daily Mirror"", ""Sunday Mirror"" and ""Daily Record"" (Mirror Group Newspapers). According to ""The Observer"", it was the largest number of separate libel actions brought in the UK by the same person in relation to one issue. His two associates were each awarded $100,000, and all three received public apologies. The British Sky Broadcasting Group, which owns Sky News, paid Murat undisclosed damages in 2008 and agreed that Sky News"
"dealings was completed. Black filed a countersuit but, eventually, United States judge Leo Strine sided with the Hollinger International board and blocked Black from selling his Hollinger Inc. shares to the twins. On 7 March 2004, the twins announced that they were launching another bid, this time just for ""The Daily Telegraph"" and its Sunday sister paper rather than all of Hollinger Inc. Current owner of the ""Daily Express"", Richard Desmond, was also interested in purchasing the paper, selling his interest in several pornographic magazines to finance the initiative. Desmond withdrew in March 2004, when the price climbed above £600m,"
"Creed Black Creed Carter Black (July 15, 1925 – August 16, 2011) was an American newspaper executive and publisher of the ""Lexington Herald-Leader"" from 1977 to 1987, where he published a series of articles on corruption in Kentucky's coal industry and the University of Kentucky's Wildcats men's basketball team. In addition, Black also worked as an executive for ""The Nashville Tennessean"", ""Savannah Morning News"", the now defunct ""Savannah Evening Press"", ""Chicago Daily News"" and ""Philadelphia Inquirer"" during his career. Black served as the President of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the"
"registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the ""News of the World"" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the"
"deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. Public pressure"
"service personnel killed in action. Senior figures on the newspaper have been held for questioning by police investigating the phone hacking and corruption allegations. Arrested on 8 July 2011 were former editor Andy Coulson and former ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman, the latter jailed for phone hacking in 2007. The former executive editor Neil Wallis was arrested on 15 July 2011 and former editor Rebekah Brooks, the tenth person held in custody, on 17 July 2011. On a visit to London on 17 February 2012, Murdoch announced he was soon to launch a Sunday edition of ""The"
"socialist newspaper The Morning Star. It has been suggested that had the arrested being suspected Islamic extremists, rather than white extremists, the arrests would have been front page news immediately. The trial itself, however, received more coverage in the mainstream media. The trial began in Manchester Crown Court on 13 February 2007. Robert Cottage pleaded guilty to possession of explosives but denied conspiracy to cause an explosion, claiming that he needed the materials to deter attacks on his property because he believed that the political and financial condition of the UK would deteriorate into civil war within a few years."
"UK. News UK's main competitor is DMG Media, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, ""Today"", the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of News International's newspapers (with the exception of ""The London Paper"", launched in 2006) were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago. In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of ""Times Higher Education"", ""Times Educational Supplement"", and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). ""The Times Literary Supplement"", previously part"
"Murdoch's native Australia), News International (a newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom, whose properties include ""The Times"", ""The Sun"", and the now-defunct ""News of the World""—which was the subject of a phone hacking scandal that led to its closure in July 2011), Dow Jones & Company (an American publisher of financial news outlets, including ""The Wall Street Journal""), the book publisher HarperCollins, and the Fox Entertainment Group (owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and the Fox Broadcasting Company—one of the United States' major television networks). News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company"
"tricky financial operations. Under Sunstates, which owned a mixed bag of companies such as an insurance firm, a chocolate factory, a furniture factory and an apple orchard, but had never before run newspapers, the Lerner chain continued to erode while Sunstates managers constrained journalists to keep 9-to-5 hours. In 2000, in a surreptitious arrangement that came to be known as the ""Lerner Exchange,"" Sunstates sold the chain to a company fronted by Canadian press baron Conrad Black, who resold it to Hollinger International. This and other illegal maneuvers by Black and sidekick David Radler, ""Sun-Times"" publisher, ultimately led to their"
"wrong direction?"" Libby was eventually pardoned by President Donald Trump on April 13, 2018. Miller supported the pardon in an op-ed and said that Fitzgerald's prosecution of Libby was overzealous and politically motivated. On November 17, 2005, Fitzgerald brought criminal fraud charges against former Canadian media mogul, Conrad Black, as well as against three other Hollinger executives. The trial of Lord Black began at the Federal Court in Chicago in March 2007. Black was convicted on July 13, 2007 and later sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison, pay Hollinger $6.1 million and a fine of $125,000. On February"
"openly until the time of the book's publication and is still never mentioned within the column. Martin Lukes was arrested for insider trading on 17 December 2007, very soon after becoming CEO. No further columns were published for a few weeks, with an ""out of office"" auto reply in the FT each Thursday. On 23 January 2008 it was reported that he was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. A number of spoof articles were published reporting this as if it were fact. The column's website reported on this date that the column ran from 1999 to December"
"Mecom Group Mecom Group plc is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until 22 December 2008, when it became one of three media companies to fall out of the index. The company was founded in 2005 by David Montgomery, a former CEO of the Mirror Group and former editor of ""The Sun"", ""Daily Mirror"", ""News of the World"" and ""Today"". Mecom was first listed on the Alternative Investment Market in 2005. In 2008, Mecom was admitted to the main list"
"Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. It is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ""The Mirror"". It had an average daily print circulation of 3 in December 2016, and rose dramatically to 4 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ""Sunday Mirror"". Unlike other major British tabloids such as ""The Sun"" and the ""Daily Mail"", the ""Mirror"" has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ""Daily Record"" and ""Sunday Mail"","
"the ""Cudlipp Award"" in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2010. Daily Mirror The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. It is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ""The Mirror"". It had an average daily print circulation of 3 in December 2016, and rose dramatically to 4 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ""Sunday Mirror"". Unlike other major British tabloids such as ""The Sun"" and the ""Daily Mail"", the ""Mirror"" has no separate Scottish edition; this function"
"of the World"" record for number of consecutive front page splashes, with five. In March 2005 Goodman took over Mark Bolland's ""Blackadder"" column, reporting on details and rumours of the lives of notable personalities. It was during his tenure on this column that two entries raised suspicions with Royal Household staff that Goodman had gained access to the Royal Family's voicemails. On 26 January 2007 Goodman was imprisoned for four months, having pleaded guilty to illegally intercepting phone messages from Clarence House; his co-conspirator Glenn Mulcaire was sentenced to six months. Goodman was sacked by the ""News of the World"""
"in January 2007, but within a year he received £240,000 in settlements, from News International. According to News International the payments were made because his dismissal was unfair as they had failed to ""follow statutory procedures"" in sacking Goodman. Goodman was arrested again, along with Andy Coulson, on 8 July 2011 after new revelations of the phone hacking were made public. It was announced that the ""News of the World"" would end its 168-year publication history on 10 July 2011. Goodman was on trial in 2013-14 along with Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and a number of other former ""News of the"