Press Baron Who Received Unauthorized Payments Will Quit [View All]

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(Hope this isn't a dupe, but this guy is the Rupert Murdoch of Canada- he's a shoe in for a "Conservative Idiots" slot!)

Edit: link: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/business/media/18BLAC.html

Conrad M. Black, the Canadian press baron who sought to build a global collection of newspapers with a conservative bent, is quitting as chief executive and putting the company up for sale after an internal investigation disclosed yesterday that he and his partners had received $15.6 million in unauthorized payments.




A sale of the company, Hollinger International, either as a whole or in parts would most likely bring to an end the big-media ambitions of Lord Black. A Canadian-born British lord, he started his empire with a pair of weekly newspapers in Quebec and expanded it to span half the globe. It now includes The Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph in London, The Jerusalem Post and a stake in The New York Sun


NOW can we get Rupert Murdoch on similar charges??? Pretty please?