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Editor & Publisher
26Aug2005
Court Orders Radler To Return Documents
By E&P Staff

CHICAGO Who were the "certain persons" who removed "certain documents" from the premises of a Hollinger Inc. subsidiary in British Columbia? Turns out it was F. David Radler, the former Hollinger CFO and top business associate of Conrad Black.

E&P Thursday night posted a story based on Hollinger Inc.'s status update, which referred in vague terms to a Aug. 19 incident in which documents were taken from an obscure subsidiary of Hollinger Inc. known as 2821354 Canada Inc. Hollinger, which Black once used to control newspapers such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily Telegraph of London, said it had obtained a court order to retrieve the documents.

In Friday's Globe and Mail of Toronto, media reporter Richard Blackwell reported that the order was directed at Radler, who had been running his newspaper business out of the Vancouver offices.

Radler was ordered to list and return any documents he took, and turn them over to Ernst & Young, the firm appointed to examine transactions at Hollinger Inc. Another former Black subsidiary, Hollinger International, has accused Black, Radler and others of "looting" the company of $400 million by taking improper fees and payments. Radler's attorney has said he will plead guilty Sept. 15 in U.S. District Court in Chicago to charges he took $32 million in phony "non-compete" payments tied to newspaper sales.

At Thursday's court hearing, the Globe and Mail reported, attorney Sean Dewart said Radler had returned all six boxes of documents removed from the office. Dewart said they were "confidential correspondence he'd exchanged with his lawyers and some other personal documents."

The night before Radler removed the documents, Hollinger had changed the locks on the offices. Radler nevertheless managed to get in his office.
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The Globe and Mail
26Aug205
Radler ordered to return documents
Must list, bring back everything removed from Hollinger office last week
By RICHARD BLACKWELL
MEDIA REPORTER

TORONTO -- Conrad Black's former lieutenant David Radler has been ordered by an Ontario judge to return documents he had removed from Hollinger Inc.'s Vancouver office last week.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Colin Campbell signed an order yesterday that will force Mr. Radler to list everything he had taken from the office, and give it to the inspector looking into the affairs of Hollinger, the Toronto holding company that was once the centre of Lord Black's media empire.

The order also bars Mr. Radler from entering the premises without the consent of Hollinger or the inspector, Ernst & Young.

Mr. Radler was running his publishing business out of an office owned by a Hollinger subsidiary on Fifth Avenue in Vancouver, even though he has not been employed by Hollinger for many months.
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He must also provide a list of contacts for everyone who handled the material, and a chronology of events regarding the removal of documents.
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In May, Lord Black was ordered by Judge Campbell to return 12 boxes of documents he removed from Hollinger's premises in Toronto. He was caught on a security video, while he was taking the boxes out of the back door of the premises.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=apK4_pQ8Oy0w&refer=uk
Bloomberg
25Aug2005
Black's Computer Drives Sought by Justice Department (Update2)

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department asked Conrad Black's former holding company to turn over computer hard drives to a grand jury investigating allegations that he siphoned money from Chicago Sun-Times publisher Hollinger International Inc.
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My prediction is that Radler will get 6 months in a Club Fed and improve his tennis backhand. Nothing will happen to his lordship, and none of the money shall be returned. Of course, this will be more than the sponsorship scandal, in which no one will go to jail and no money will be refunded.

I would LOVE to be proven wrong on these predictions.

Conrad Black's biggest problem in my opinion is his greed. When he "took" from widows and orphans by pilfering the assets of Pension plans he was a financial genius. When he turned on his own kind, well he is just a cheap miserable bast...ket! :(

Conrad Black is scum from way back. So is his wife Barbara Amiel. Unfortunately, they are both excellent writers, so they can set out their version of things very fluently.

To see an alternative view, read "The Big Black Book" by Maude Barlow.
Stoddart ISBN: 0773759042

I say boy, I just looove the new avatar, Gerbill! Foghorn always was my favourite! :D

I say boy, I just looove the new avatar, Gerbill! Foghorn always was my favourite! :D


reminds me a lot of ralph klein, but foghorn is just a bit smarter
:D

I say boy, I just looove the new avatar, Gerbill! Foghorn always was my favourite! :D
Foghorn-isms:

What's the big, I say what's the big idea? Don't stand there
gawkin' son, speak up
Now cut, I say cut that out, what's it all about boy, elucidate!

Now wait a minute son, ya payin' no attention. Ya
startin' too big. Ya gotta walk before ya can run. Start small,
look at me when I'm talking to ya son. I say start small and work
up. Now try again boy. Kids nowadays they know it all.

Oh that woman. Gotta mouth like an outboard motor.
All the time putputputputputput...
Go away boy, ya bother me.

I keep pitchin' em and you keep missin' 'em.
Ya way off, I say ya way off this time son.
Now what, I say what's the big idea of bashin' me on
the noggin with a rollin' pin. Clunk enough people and we'll have
a nation of lumpheads.

Yep, that's Ralph Klein alright.

Conrad Black is scum from way back. So is his wife Barbara Amiel. Unfortunately, they are both excellent writers, ...
Well, Conrad may be a good writer. But Babs?!
I read a few of her columns way back, in the Sun, and at best, I laughed at her futile attempts at "journalism", which were blatant ideological rants.

exactement
Babs is a schill at best or a whore at worst for the right wing
Curious George was better writing

exactement
Babs is a schill at best or a whore at worst for the right wing
Curious George was better writing
One of the interesting things in Maude Barlow's book, referenced in my post above, is some of the very bizarre sexual opinions that Lady Black (Babs) delivers herself of in some of her columns. The book is a bit out of date, but it's worth a read.