Skilling has been in jail for years, as has former media mogul Conrad Black.
He was backed by the billionaire Barclay brothers, who recently bid for media baron Conrad Black's Telegraph Group newspapers.
By those standards, Conrad Black, Canada's only real newspaper tycoon, is most unCanadian.
Chicago jurors are just getting to know media mogul Conrad Black, who is on trial for fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
This is the latest twist in the remarkable affair involving Hollinger International, a newspaper group, and its long-time controlling owner, Conrad Black.
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David Radler, once a key advisor to Conrad Black, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and agreed to testify against others in the case.
The smartest may be a piece that Conrad Black, a former press baron who is between spells in jail, wrote in the Financial Times.
Conrad Black, a member of the British House of Lords, married the beautiful journalist and socialite Barbara Amiel and they lived a lavish international lifestyle.
Conrad Black is fighting for his reputation, and perhaps his freedom.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, onetime press titan Conrad Black faces sentencing next month for a crime he thought the U.S. Supreme Court had obliterated with an earlier ruling.
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The challenge was brought by Enron's former boss, Jeff Skilling, who will not go free despite his victory, and Conrad Black, a media magnate released this week on bail pending an appeal, who may.
Earlier this year, he shredded the reputation of Conrad Black with a forcefully worded 130-page ruling blocking Lord Black's sale of his stake in Hollinger Inc, a holding company that owned (among other newspapers) Britain's Daily Telegraph.
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Prior to 2004 Conrad Black was a columnist, as well as chairman and chief executive of Hollinger International (now part of Sun-Times Media Group), a newspaper publishing giant whose holdings include the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Telegraph.
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Conrad Black, at the high end, has a scary and persuasive picture of how his counsel, the judge, and the prosecutors all merrily congratulated each other on their combined professional excellence just before sending him off to the hoosegow for several years.
More recently, a host of corporate scandals at the start of this decade, including the failures of Enron and WorldCom, led to former chief executives such as Jeffrey Skilling, Bernie Ebbers, Dennis Kozlowski and Conrad Black being jailed, some of them probably for the rest of their lives.
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