Hollinger International Inc.: Obstruction Of Justice

Lord Black Dept: His return ended a near decade-long battle over the misappropriation of money at Chicago-based Hollinger International Inc., a key part of the Hollinger newspaper empire Lord Black co-founded in the late 1960s. At its peak, Hollinger owned hundreds of papers across Canada, the United States, Britain and Israel, according to Globe and Mail. Lord Black wrote about his legal battle in a book released last fall called A Matter of Principle . An updated version of the book is coming out next month, Lord Black said in the e-mail and lord Black returned to Canada on May 4 after being released from a Florida prison, where he had been serving a 42-month sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice. His arrival was met with some controversy because it wasn t clear if he could come back to Canada since he had given up his Canadian citizenship years ago to sit in the House of Lords in Britain. However the Department of Citizenship and Immigration gave Lord Black a one-year temporary-resident permit, clearing the way for him to fly to Toronto immediately upon his release from a Miami jail. Allegations of wrongdoing surfaced in 2003 and two years later Lord Black and four other Hollinger executives faced a number of criminal charges. Lord Black was ultimately convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. He waged a number of appeals, including one to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in one fraud count and the obstruction charge remaining. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.