Probe: Ex-Hollinger CEO Looted Profits
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NEW YORK - Conrad Black, the former CEO of Hollinger International Inc., conspired with associates to systematically loot the newspaper publishing company of more than $400 million - nearly all of its profits from 1997 through 2003, an internal investigation found.    The report, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, was prepared by a special committee of Hollinger's board which was formed last year to examine concerns from shareholders about payments made to Black and others...
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TORONTO (CP) - Shares of Hollinger Inc. soared Friday after embattled press baron Conrad Black announced plans to buy out other shareholders of the publicly traded Canadian company at the centre of his business empire.
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Lord Black&#39;s woes deepened again last night when a Canadian judge ordered an inquiry into Hollinger Inc, the Toronto-listed company through which the press baron controls his newspaper empire.
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Former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black was convicted on three counts of mail fraud plus obstructing justice.
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A new report alleges a handful of top executives at Hollinger International -- which owns the Chicago Sun-Times -- took $400 million of the company&#39;s money.
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REVELATIONS of the &quot;self-righteous and aggressive looting&quot; of Hollinger International by its former chief executive Conrad Black and his associates are so jaw-droppingly obscene it is tempting to conclude that, given the extremity of the behaviour Black
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Hollinger International Inc., publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, said it spent $46.3 million this year on an internal investigation of former Chief Executive Conrad Black and others.
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By Pete CareySTAFF  Congressional investigators are questioning Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd's sale of stock options, worth $1.37 million, which occurred 15 days before the company's controversial boardroom leak investigation became public.
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Hollinger International Inc., publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, said a committee of its board investigating allegations of wrongdoing against former Chief Executive Conrad Black filed a report with a court in Chicago.
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Fallen press baron Conrad Black will sue Hollinger International Inc.'s special committee and others for C&#36;1.1 billion (&#36;870 million) over a report that accused him of looting the company of millions of dollars.
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A US court on Friday dealt a blow to Hollinger International Inc.&#39;s (HLR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) efforts to recover $1.25 billion from ex-chairman Conrad Black and
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Description: An internal investigation launched by Hollinger International lays the blame for the publishing group&#39;s financial woes on its own top executives.
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The former chief executive and others were accused of committing accounting fraud to meet earnings forecasts and investor expectations.
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Shares of Hollinger Inc. soared Friday after embattled press baron Conrad Black announced plans to buy out other shareholders of the publicly traded Canadian company at the center of his business empire.
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LOS ANGELES - A former executive at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. was charged yesterday with insider trading after he sold stock before the company disclosed negative earning results three years ago, regulators said.
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Hollinger International, the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times, Tuesday released findings of an internal audit following the disclosure last June that the newspaper&#39;s circulation had been inflated by more than 20 percent.
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Special prosecutors are investigating accusations that the companyâs chairman, Lee Kun Hee, had amassed slush funds to bribe politicians, prosecutors and government officials.