Conrad Black, the former media magnate who once controlled an empire stretching from Vancouver to Jerusalem, was on Monday sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the multimillion-dollar fraud at Hollinger International, the newspaper group he created and controlled. The 63-year-old Canadian-born peer was grim-faced as Judge Amy St Eve told him he had abused the trust of shareholders. “In this country, no one is above the law”, she said, ordering Lord Black to surrender in 12 weeks and recommending he serve his term in a low-security prison in Florida. Along with other prisoners, the peer – who furnished his Park Avenue apartment in New York with $20,000-marble elephants – will be assigned a job for which he will earn less than $1 a day. Read more background on key players in the Black trial.

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