Conrad Black sells his Florida home

Mark McKenna
April 29, 2011
3 Comments

ConradBlackConrad Black was once one of the most powerful media moguls in the world. In fact, Black was actually the third largest newspaper magnate in the world.

Black controlled Hollinger International, and through affiliates published several major publications including The Daily Telegraph, Chicago Sun Times, Jerusalem Post, National Post and countless others. For years the Baron Black of Crossharbour controlled much of what was read in newspaper prints. It all came to an end with the rise of digital publications and blogs.

No. That’s not what happened. As we all know, it’s actually a more predictable result, the US found a way to charge him with fraud, one of their favourite charges. Black was convicted of fraud in a US court back in 2007 and actually did 28 months of hard time.

Just over a year ago Black got out on bail and was able to overturn two of the three remaining mail fraud counts and now he’s resurfaced on breaking news, not for fraud this time, but because he’s just sold his Florida mansion this week for an estimated US$25-million and has moved to New York.

Someone has to say it and it might as well be me. I can’t be the only one who notices that every-time the US wants to take someone down, fraud is the charge of choice. Perhaps it’s the charge that their prosecutors are most skilled at to get someone convicted. We’ll see how they do with the Black Friday indictments, no relation to Conrad, of course.

I’m actually surprised that Black hasn’t gotten rid of all his US properties and lived somewhere where he won’t have to fight the government. Likely his bail restrictions are preventing him from doing exactly that…And he’s so close to the safety of Canada too, where he has a mansion in Toronto and won’t likely be bothered by the Canadian government. They actually have bigger things to worry about, like running a country.

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  • http://CalvinAyre.com Calvin Ayre

    I have a lot of respect for Conrad, he is very intelligent…but you have to shake your head at the arrogance he demonstrated in his legal troubles. He just never took it seriously enough. The US is not joking when it does this stuff.

    I love NY, but its not London…London is like NY city without all the rules and close to tons of cool Euro spots like Rome and Barcelona etc. I like Miami also actually.

    • bill

      from the man who said catch me if you can

  • jwh

    Conrad Black renounced his Canadian citizenship years ago. I can't imagine that it would be anything but political suicide for any Canadian government to take him back. Immigrants with criminal records are summarily denied entry to this country. Black has a criminal record, and seriously burned his bridges when he renounced his citizenship in favour of an appointment to the House of Lords in England.

    We don't want him back.

    JWH, Carrying Place, ON