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42-573: The News was part of David Radler 's Sterling Newspapers chain in the 1970s, and became part of the Southam chain when Radler and Conrad Black incorporated Southam into Hollinger Inc. ; this chain was, at the time, the dominant newspaper publisher in British Columbia, and also included the Nanaimo Daily News , Times Colonist and several weeklies. Along with the rest of Southam, ownership of

84-634: A $ 250,000 fine, 2 years of probation and a 2½ year prison term. After a court of appeals rejected Libby's attempt to delay the prison sentence while he appealed the verdict, President George W. Bush commuted the prison portion of Libby's sentence but did not commute the fine. Two days after the verdict, Congressman Henry Waxman , chair of the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform , announced that his committee would ask Plame to testify on March 16, in an effort by his committee to look into "whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding Plame's identity." In March 2007, Fitzgerald

126-411: A company controlled by himself and Black, Horizon Publications Inc. By disguising the payments as 'non-compete' payments, non-sales proceeds, Radler took advantage of a Canadian tax ruling that made them tax-exempt. The prosecution argued that these moneys belonged to Hollinger International, and had been improperly and secretly diverted to Black and Radler. Radler was sentenced to a fine of $ 250,000 and

168-754: A master's degree in Business Administration . In the 1980s Radler was in charge of the sale of Argus Corporation 's Dominion supermarket chain to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company , or A&P. As well, Radler was once based in Chicago to help Black's media business—managed under Chicago-based Hollinger International in the United States—as publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper and president and chief operating officer of Hollinger International. Throughout his career, Radler cultivated

210-552: A network of political bribery and gift-giving, and leading to more than 60 indictments. Ryan was indicted in December 2003. At the conclusion of the trial in April 2006, Ryan was found guilty on all eighteen counts against him. Ryan's co-defendant, Chicago businessman Larry Warner, then 67 years old, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, fraud, attempted extortion, and money laundering. The two were sentenced on September 6, 2006: Ryan received

252-483: A number of top aides to Democrat Richard M. Daley , the mayor of Chicago , on charges of mail fraud , alleging numerous instances of corruption in hiring practices at City Hall. In March 2006, former Chicago City Clerk James Laski pleaded guilty to pocketing nearly $ 50,000 in bribes for steering city business to two trucking companies. Laski was the highest-ranking Chicago official and Daley administration employee brought down by Fitzgerald's office in conjunction with

294-734: A reputation for aggressive cost cutting in newspaper operations. Radler has been publisher at major Western Canadian dailies such as The Province and The Vancouver Sun . Most recently, Radler was publisher at the Times Colonist until 2018. After buying up the London Daily Telegraph , the Chicago Sun-Times , the Jerusalem Post , the Southam chain of Canadian newspapers and hundreds of small American newspapers, Hollinger International began to suffer from financial strain in

336-532: A sentence of six and one half years, and Warner received a sentence of three years and five months. Against criticism that these cases were based on circumstantial evidence, Fitzgerald responded: "People now know that if you're part of a corrupt conduct, where one hand is taking care of the other and contracts are going to people, you don't have to say the word 'bribe' out loud. And I think people need to understand we won't be afraid to take strong circumstantial cases into court." On July 18, 2005, his office indicted

378-790: A statement on his decision to commute Libby's prison sentence and noted: After the investigation was under way, the Justice Department appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald as a Special Counsel in charge of the case. Mr. Fitzgerald is a highly qualified, professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged. Libby was eventually pardoned by President Donald Trump on April 13, 2018. On November 17, 2005, Fitzgerald brought criminal fraud charges against former Canadian media mogul Conrad Black , as well as against three other Hollinger executives. The trial of Black began at

420-666: A term of 29 months in prison. He had been assisting the prosecution in the investigation of his former business partner. Black is currently being tried on the many charges; his trial began in Chicago in March 2007. Patrick Fitzgerald is the lead prosecutor in the Black case, and Black is represented by a legal team which includes Toronto lawyer Edward Greenspan . In the fall of 2005, the Board of Trustees of Queen's University, Radler's alma mater, directed that Mr. Radler’s name be immediately removed from

462-423: Is a Canadian executive active in finance and news media. Radler was once president of Ravelston Corporation , a privately owned corporation owned by Conrad Black and Radler to control their former newspaper empire. Ravelston owned Argus Corporation which in turn controlled Chicago-based Hollinger International. In 2005, 14.1% of Ravelston was owned by Radler. Radler graduated from Queen's University in 1967 with

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504-522: Is lost. If we were to walk away from this, we might as well hand in our jobs." Robert Novak 's testimony in Libby's perjury trial made it known that the two senior administration sources he cited in his article were Richard Armitage and Karl Rove . A month later Armitage claimed Fitzgerald had instructed him not to go public with this information. Journalist Michael Isikoff received confirmation from Rove's lawyer and from lobbyist Richard F. Hohlt that Rove

546-429: Is not from Chicago; Patrick said that he had visited Chicago only one day, for a wedding in 1982, before his selection. Soon after becoming U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, Fitzgerald began an investigation of political appointees of Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan , who were suspected of accepting bribes to give licenses to unqualified truck drivers. Fitzgerald soon expanded this investigation, uncovering

588-439: Is now recognized on the wall of the business school at the level of the donation. It was widely reported at the time that a Toronto hospital had no intention of returning Conrad Black's financial gift. This prompted some to question the wisdom of Queen's returning David Radler's generous donation. The business school, for its part, explained that the charge that Mr Radler had pleaded guilty to was "very serious" and not congruent with

630-786: The Chicago Tribune to fire editors critical of the Blagojevich administration in exchange for state assistance in selling Wrigley Field . Fitzgerald said at the news conference that, "I laid [ sic ] awake at night", worrying about the possible firing of Tribune editors. In 2014, Fitzgerald was hired by Michigan State University to conduct an internal investigation to discover whether and when university officials knew about sexual assault allegations against Dr. Larry Nassar . Fitzgerald reported to university officials that no MSU official "believed" that Nassar had committed sexual assault, but did not provide any written report detailing

672-506: The 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania . On September 1, 2001, Fitzgerald was nominated for the position of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois on the recommendation of U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (no relation), a Republican from Illinois . On October 24, 2001, the nomination was confirmed by the Senate. The Senator urged the selection because Patrick Fitzgerald

714-486: The Hired Truck Program scandal. Beginning in April 2007, Fitzgerald oversaw Operation Crooked Code , the investigation and prosecution of over two dozen defendants for bribery and related charges in Chicago's Department of Buildings and Zoning. On December 9, 2008, federal agents arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for conspiring to profit from his authority to appoint President Barack Obama 's successor to

756-785: The Hired Truck Program , and Chicago police detective and torturer Jon Burge . Fitzgerald was born into a Roman Catholic family of Irish descent in Brooklyn . His father (also named Patrick Fitzgerald) worked as a doorman in Manhattan and a security guard at the 1964 New York World's Fair in Flushing, Queens . Fitzgerald attended Our Lady Help of Christians grammar school, before going on to Regis High School . He received degrees in economics and mathematics from Amherst College , Phi Beta Kappa , before receiving his JD from Harvard Law School in 1985. He played rugby at Amherst and at Harvard he

798-507: The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel in charge of the investigation. Fitzgerald was well-known to Comey and was in fact already godfather to one of Comey's children. On December 30, 2003, three months after the start of the Plame investigation, Fitzgerald was appointed Special Counsel . Through this, Fitzgerald was delegated "all the authority of the Attorney General" in

840-744: The Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois . Fitzgerald joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in the firm's Chicago office as a partner. In June of 2023, Fitzgerald retired from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom . On December 30, 2003, after then- Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the CIA leak grand jury investigation of the Plame affair due to conflicts of interest , Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey , acting as Attorney General in Ashcroft's place, appointed Fitzgerald to

882-451: The FBI early that morning on charges of corruption. Fitzgerald described Blagojevich's actions as the "kind of conduct [that] would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." Blagojevich was charged with mail fraud and solicitation of a bribe . According to Fitzgerald, Blagojevich attempted to sell off President-elect Barack Obama 's open U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, as well as pressuring

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924-468: The Plame scandal. On May 23, 2012, Fitzgerald held a press conference informing the public that he was stepping down from his position and retiring as the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Federal Court effective June 30, 2012. Long-time prosecutor Gary S. Shapiro was named US Attorney until a replacement was selected. In 2013, Fitzgerald was appointed by Governor Patrick Quinn (D-IL) to

966-643: The SEC settlement sparked protest from the defence at the Conrad Black trial; the defence claimed that such news would negatively influence the jury. Radler started serving his 29-month sentence for fraud on 25 February 2008 by reporting to Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Pennsylvania . He was transferred to FCI Ray Brook in Upstate New York and was turned over to Canadian authorities on 18 September 2008. He

1008-518: The U.S. Senate. Fitzgerald said Blagojevich "put a 'for sale' sign on the naming of a United States Senator." Senator Peter Fitzgerald chose not to run for reelection in 2004, leaving Patrick Fitzgerald without a congressional patron. In the summer of 2005, there were rumors that he would not be reappointed to a second four-year term in retaliation for his investigations into corruption in Illinois and Chicago government, as well as for his investigation of

1050-665: The Vancouver Island newspapers passed to Canwest in 2000, then Postmedia Network in 2010. Postmedia sold its Vancouver Island properties and Lower Mainland weeklies to Glacier Media in 2011 for $ 86.5 million. In 2015, Glacier Media sold all its island papers except for the Times Colonist to Black Press. This article about a Canadian newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . David Radler F. David Radler (born 1942 in Montreal, Quebec )

1092-436: The building wing of their business school that had been named after him, and his personal donation was returned. Subsequently, the university discovered that returning charitable gifts is impossible under Canada Revenue Agency regulations , which prevented the return of the donations from the various media companies. To make matters more complex, some of the companies themselves were no longer in operation, and others did not wish

1134-409: The federal court in Chicago in March 2007. Black was convicted on July 13, 2007 and was later sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison, pay Hollinger $ 6.1 million and a fine of $ 125,000. On February 1, 2006, the U.S. Attorney's Office under Fitzgerald announced that it was indicting nineteen members of Risciso , a software and movie piracy ring, in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The prosecution

1176-447: The gift returned in any case. While the board’s ethical decision was rightly lauded, the complexities of the gift, and the uncertainty about the rules at the time, created lingering confusion. After careful consideration and in consultation with Osprey Media (which now owned many of the companies that had made the original donations), it was agreed that in spirit Queen’s had returned the gift and Osprey had made an equivalent donation; Osprey

1218-533: The late 1990s. Radler and Black then sold off hundreds of their Canadian and American newspapers. Radler, who has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia , since the early 1970s, created a company called Horizon Publications Inc. This bought up some of the American newspapers owned by Hollinger International. After controversy developed in 2003–2004 concerning $ 32,000,000 of 'non-compete' payments made to Black and Radler in

1260-526: The many victims of these crimes left in its wake. Radler is now back at work in his office in Vancouver running his business, the Alberta Newspaper Group . Patrick Fitzgerald Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American lawyer and former partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom . For more than a decade, until June 30, 2012, Fitzgerald

1302-704: The matter. In February 2004, Acting Attorney General Comey clarified the delegated authority and stated that Fitzgerald has plenary authority . Comey also wrote "further, my conferral on you of the title of 'Special Counsel' in this matter should not be misunderstood to suggest that your position and authorities are defined and limited by 28 CFR Part 600." On October 28, 2005, Fitzgerald brought an indictment for five counts of false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice against Lewis "Scooter" Libby , U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney 's Chief of Staff. Libby resigned to prepare for his legal defense. In his first press conference after announcing Libby's indictment, Fitzgerald

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1344-629: The prosecutor in the case against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others charged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing . In 1996, Fitzgerald became the National Security Coordinator for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York . There, he served on a team of prosecutors investigating Osama bin Laden . He also served as chief counsel in prosecutions related to

1386-522: The sale of Hollinger newspapers, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (and Canadian authorities as well) announced that Black and Radler were under investigation for their involvement. Radler was eventually charged with five counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud. On 20 September 2005, Radler pleaded guilty in a Chicago court to one count of mail fraud in relation to the 'non-compete' payments. These payments had been diverted by Radler to

1428-639: The values of the school and those it teaches. On 18 March 2007, it was reported that Mr. Radler had signed a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that will see him pay a penalty of almost US$ 29 million and prevent him from acting as an officer or director of any public company in the United States. The next day, it was announced that Mr. Radler has settled with the Sun-Times Media Group , agreeing to pay them $ 64.1 million. The news of

1470-629: Was a member of the Harvard Business School Rugby Club . Fitzgerald married Jennifer Letzkus in June 2008. After practicing civil law , Fitzgerald became an Assistant United States Attorney in New York City in 1988. He handled drug trafficking cases and in 1993 assisted in the prosecution of Mafia figure John Gambino , a boss of the Gambino crime family . In 1994, Fitzgerald became

1512-407: Was also faxed an advance copy of the article several days before it was published. On March 6, 2007, Libby was convicted of 4 out of 5 charges of lying under oath. Fitzgerald announced on the courthouse steps that while he is always open to receiving new information related to the case, he expects to file no further charges, and the prosecutors would "return to their day jobs". Libby was sentenced to

1554-400: Was asked about comments by Republicans such as Kay Bailey Hutchison , who said "I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality," to which Fitzgerald responded, "That talking point won't fly. The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process

1596-470: Was paroled from Ferndale Institution in Mission, British Columbia on 15 December 2008. He served only 10 months of a 29-month sentence. He was released on the grounds that he was unlikely to "commit an offence involving violence" before his sentence expired. The board said it was limited to considering only the matter of physical violence and could not consider the financial devastation caused by his crimes or

1638-640: Was ranked among prosecutors who "had not distinguished themselves" as opposed to "strong U.S. Attorneys who exhibited loyalty to the administration" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005. This was revealed in light of an investigation of the December 2006 firings of several U.S. Attorneys by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, perceived as being politically motivated and despite Fitzgerald's previous Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service in 2002. Two other prosecutors so ranked were dismissed. On July 2, 2007, President Bush provided

1680-661: Was the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois . Prior to his appointment, he served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1988 to 2001, and as Chief of the Organized Crime-Terrorism Unit since December 1995, where he participated in the prosecutions of Osama bin Laden , Omar Abdel-Rahman , and Ramzi Yousef . As special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, Fitzgerald

1722-565: Was the federal prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the Valerie Plame Affair , which led to the prosecution and conviction in 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney 's chief of staff Scooter Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice. As a federal prosecutor, he led a number of high-profile investigations, including those which led to convictions of Illinois Governors Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan , media mogul Conrad Black , several aides to Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley in

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1764-616: Was the result of an undercover investigation, Operation Jolly Roger, that was part of Operation Site Down —an initiative by the FBI and law enforcement agents from ten other countries to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading warez groups that distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet. On December 9, 2008, Fitzgerald confirmed in a press conference in Chicago that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, had been arrested by

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