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Christopher Browne, a genteel money manager who helped bring down newspaper baron Conrad Black, died Sunday of a heart attack. Mr. Browne appears to have been 63, although his firm, Tweedy Browne & Co. , couldn't immediately confirm that. Full Article at Crain's New York
Please don't tempt fate by untying that yellow ribbon from the old oak tree ... but there is a sliver of a chance that Conrad Black will soon be out. Full Article at The Independent
A pedestrian walks past the US Supreme Court building in Washington, December 8, 2009. View Photo »
Instead of wobbling around in the middle of the road, attracting flak from all sides, wouldn’t it be nice just to do the right thing for once and tell Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre, Conrad Black et al to f*** off.
As the goings on in Copenhagen demonstrate, the international summit has been gradually diluted over the last 50 years from a history-making occasion to little more than a pompous Shriners’ Convention — no more stylish, and not as benign. Full Article at National Post
Back when he was in the United States Senate, Vice President Joe Biden came up with the brilliant idea of being able to charge people with the crime of "honest services fraud," something that would permit prosecutors to charge public officials with... Full Article at U.S. News & World Report
Perhaps no city can match Chicago for the number of high-profile politicians and business moguls with a stake in the United States Supreme Court’s pending decision on an anti-corruption law prohibiting the “theft of honest services.” The case of... Full Article at The New York Times
Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, walks outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington. View Photo »
The worst thing about the Aspers was that they politicised, to a great extent, Canadian journalism ... There seems to have been a concerted movement to take Canada's press to the right by people like Conrad Black and the Aspers. That's unhealthy for political discourse.
Having attended the hearing personally, he closes on a personal note: As we waited for entry, I fell into talk with a group of Black well-wishers who had traveled from Toronto to line up on the courthouse steps before opening hours. Full Article at Wise Law Blog
• Richard Desmond, purveyor of exotica and publisher of the "World's Greatest Newspaper", versus Tom Bower, biographer of the rich and notorious, was by any standards a titanic battle. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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A pedestrian walks past the US Supreme Court building in Washington, December 8, 2009.
View Photo »Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, walks outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.
View Photo »Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, talks with reporters outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.
View Photo »Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, center, talks with reporters outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.
View Photo »Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, talks with reporters outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.
View Photo »Conrad Black leaves the Derksen Federal Courthouse after being sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison for obstructing justice and defrauding shareholders of one-time newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International Inc. in Chicago in this December 10, 2007 file.
View Photo »British newspaper proprietor Richard Desmond arrives at the High Court in central London, on July 17, 2009. Desmond has brought a libel action against writer Tom Bower over allegations against Desmond in his 2006 biography of Conrad Black.
View Photo »FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2007 file photo, convicted newspaper baron Conrad Black leaves the federal building in Chicago. The Supreme Court on Monday, May 18, 2009 agreed to consider Black's appeal of his fraud conviction. Black is serving a 6 1/2 year prison term.
View Photo »FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2007 file photo, convicted newspaper baron Conrad Black leaves the federal building in Chicago. The Supreme Court on Monday, May 18, 2009 agreed to consider Black's appeal of his fraud conviction. Black is serving a 6 1/2 year prison term.
View Photo »FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gestures during his keynote speech for the "Rule of Law" conference sponsored by the Louisiana State Bar Association in New Orleans. Former Illinois Gov.
View Photo »Miguel Estrada, lawyer for Conrad Black, walks outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 in Washington.
View Photo »Instead of wobbling around in the middle of the road, attracting flak from all sides, wouldn’t it be nice just to do the right thing for once and tell Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre, Conrad Black et al to f*** off.
The worst thing about the Aspers was that they politicised, to a great extent, Canadian journalism ... There seems to have been a concerted movement to take Canada's press to the right by people like Conrad Black and the Aspers. That's unhealthy for political discourse.
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