Prison is not so bad, says Conrad Black
Friday, 22 August 2008
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Disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black, who was jailed in America earlier this year, has revealed to a Belfast Telergaph columnist he is finding imprisonment “not oppressive”.
Canadian-born Black, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years for criminal fraud and obstructing justice earlier this year.
He is serving out his sentence in prison at Coleman, Florida.
Black was a leading figure in Conservative circles and his newspaper group included The Daily Telegraph.
However through correspondence with Ruth Dudley Edwards, whom he knows through mutual friends, he has revealed he finds jail “somewhat interesting”.
In one email he said: “...that this place is not oppressive, and the fellow residents are somewhat interesting in ways. I have practically unlimited access to email, the media, visitors, and the telephone, and spend some time tutoring high-school leaving candidates in English.”
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I wish Lord Black a happy birthday. We were both born within a few weeks and a few blocks from each other in Montreal. I agree with his many friends that the case against him is a sham. I thought the picture I saw of him showed him looking far more relaxed and easy than I have ever seen him before. I hope he fares well in the coming year.
Quartered safe out here
Posted by Christy McCormick | 31.08.08, 10:49 GMT
Conrad black was convicted by the systemthat still in the 21 st century gasses and electrocuted people.Mr black was convicted by the system that incarcarates people without trial in guantanamo.Lord black was locked up for removing documents his property from his offices in his country canada because the nazis in the land of the free wanted to get their hands on these documents.Yes lord black did do wrong he was stupid enough to list his company on the exchanges in the us the so called policeman of the world.lord black availed of non compete agreements to gain a tax advantage which was at the time perfectly legal in canada the prosecutors in the us did not like that ,They liked it even less that conrad stood up to them and even now is completely unbowed.
Posted by larry sweeney | 23.08.08, 22:32 GMT
i am glad he is having a good time in prison. the share holders that he robbed can not be very happy with the money he stole from them, if he is so happy maybe another 6 years should be added to his sentence.
frank
Posted by frank mc Cracken | 22.08.08, 19:21 GMT
Ain't life grand! Black looted the till of his own companies and skimmed off benefits that should have gone to shareholders, got caught, got convicted and jailed and still has "unlimited access" to the outside world. Where's the incentive to act in an ethical and honourable fashion? Or are those merely quaint bourgeois notions to which the likes of this literal robber-baron need only pay lip service. We'll see if this pariah is still as charmed with his new digs after five or six years. And remember, Conrad dropped his Canadian citizenship to become a British subject so he could accept his vainglorious elevation to the House of Lords. When he is paroled, he's the U.K.'s problem, not ours. Good riddance!
Posted by Robert Gerard | 22.08.08, 17:34 GMT