Judge orders Black to hand over documents

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http://www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2006/04/03/NewsBriefs/Judge.Orders.Black.To.Hand.Over.Documents-1776076.shtml?norewrite200604030908&sourcedomain=www.chicagoflame.com

Indicted newspaper mogul Conrad Black has lost a bid to keep some documents out of the hands of federal prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled that Black must comply with prosecutors' subpoena demanding the documents. She called the subpoena "perfectly appropriate" and ruled that Black must turn over the papers by April 10.

Black is awaiting a March 2007 trial on charges related to the alleged looting of more than $84 million from Hollinger International Inc. by high-level executives.

At issue are 13 boxes of documents that Black is alleged to have taken from Hollinger Inc.'s offices last May in defiance of a Canadian court order that no documents be removed without permission. Black subsequently returned the documents.

But prosecutors say attorneys representing Black in civil proceedings shipped copies of the papers from Toronto to the law firm's office in Washington, D.C. St. Eve ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors are allowed to issue subpoenas for documents that are on U.S. soil.

Black and three other former Hollinger executives, John Boultbee, Peter Atkinson, Mark Kipnis, are charged with using their positions to plunder millions from Chicago-based Hollinger International, which formerly owned newspapers in Canada, London and Jerusalem and now holds Chicago-area papers. All have pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges.


Great post by chill_wind here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x826883
Fitzgerald, Baker Botts and the Corporate Kleptocracy