Monday, June 4, 2007

No Donald Trump at Conrad Black's trial: lawyer

(Reuters) - The celebrity real estate magnate's name had surfaced earlier in the trial in testimony indicating that Black gave him a proxy so he could appear at a shareholders meeting to help quell anger among rebellious shareholders of Black's one-time media giant, Hollinger International Inc.




Trump also figures in a controversial surprise birthday party Black threw in 2000 for his wife Barbara Amiel Black at La Grenouille restaurant in New York. Prosecutors contend Black fraudulently charged Hollinger International $40,000 for the party when it was a social, not a business affair.


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