Indicted publisher Conrad Black, with nine months to go before his criminal trial, is "surprising his many enemies by fighting back on every front, with lawsuits, a new newspaper column and frequent
appearances on the Toronto social scene," reports a newspaper he once owned. And, according to the
Telegraph, "the arrival of a conservative government in Canada--after 13 years of the
Liberals, whom Black despised and fought with--has coincided with a shift in public opinion" more in his favor. ""There's a sense that the guy has been hit enough," says Paul Waldie, a
Toronto
Globe & Mail reporter who covers him. Says Canadian TV correspondent and Black confidant Brian Stewart: "He's clearly doing a lot of reading, and I think he's working and writing quite a lot,
probably on the Nixon era....[He] feels as if he has been persecuted by the American judicial system, which is ravenous." Black, who is charged with fraud, racketeering, and obstruction of justice in
a scheme to divert $84 million from Hollinger International--the company he once controlled--faces up to 95 years in jail if convicted.
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