From emails by Lord Conrad Black, former chairman and CEO of Hollinger International, presented as evidence at his ongoing trial in Chicago on charges of fraud, racketeering, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. Black is alleged to have billed Hollinger fraudulently for a renovation of his Park Avenue apartment, a vacation flight to the Pacific island of Bora Bora, dinners with former Hollinger board member Henry Kissinger, and the $90,000 restoration of his antique Rolls-Royce.
There has not been an occasion for many months when I got on our plane without wondering whether it was really affordable. But I’m not…