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<title><![CDATA[Black may apply for bail as court reviews case]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conrad Black is expected to ask to be released from jail while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews his conviction for fraud and obstruction of justice.Legal experts say Lord Black is entitled to apply for bail now that the Supreme Court has agreed to review the case and it is understood that one of his co-defendants, John Boultbee, has already begun the process.]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[PAUL WALDIE AND SINCLAIR STEWART]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Merkin to cede control of funds that fed to Madoff]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[J. Ezra Merkin, the hedge fund manager who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with accused Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, has agreed to relinquish control of his funds to court-appointed trustees. The attorney general's office had requested the turnover agreement in connection with its civil fraud lawsuit accusing Merkin of convincing clients he was managing their money when he was actually funnelling $2.4-billion to Madoff's ponzi scheme. The deal, which was discussed in court yesterday and was expected to be approved by a judge tomorrow, is not a settlement in the case, the attorney general's office said. Lawyer Andrew Levander said in a statement the handover was part of Merkin's ''continuing efforts to maximize the returns to investors'' and ''provide certainty and stability during the previously announced wind-down of the Ariel and Gabriel Funds.'']]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hollywood firm sexually exploited models, B.C. actress says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former B.C. beauty queen has filed a class-action lawsuit against a top Hollywood talent firm and several men, alleging a ''criminal conspiracy'' to sexually assault and exploit young aspiring models and actresses.]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[JOSH WINGROVE]]></author>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese-Canadian leaves community divided]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The OSC shut down prominent businessman's brokerage, provoking disagreement among investors about giving him another chance]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[PAUL WALDIE AND JANET McFARLAND]]></author>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 08:16 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Black's appeal: Court will test key defence]]></title>
<description><![CDATA['There's a huge controversy about this honest services fraud stuff in general. What is it? What does that mean, honest services?']]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[PAUL WALDIE AND SINCLAIR STEWART]]></author>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In a rare ruling, court to hear Black's appeal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last-ditch legal effort pays off for defiant media baron as U.S. Supreme Court set to review his fraud conviction]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[SINCLAIR STEWART, SIMON HOUPT AND PAUL WALDIE]]></author>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WERE BLACK'S SERVICES HONEST?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court's review of Conrad Black's criminal conviction will not only affect whether Lord Black stays in jail, but will also reshape how corporate fraud cases are prosecuted in the United States.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In rare ruling, court agrees to hear Black's appeal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conrad Black, convicted but not cowed, always maintained he would prevail, that his struggle was a ''play in three acts'' destined to end in redemption.But few believed he had a chance until yesterday, when he defied some daunting odds in a last-ditch effort to overturn his conviction on fraud and obstruction of justice charges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese-Canadian leaves community divided]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Joe Deng arrived in Canada from China in 2001 with no family, no friends, no job and few prospects.But within a few years, he had created his own company that attracted clients from across Canada and claimed to manage more than $1-billion in assets from offices in Toronto, mainland China, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States.]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[PAUL WALDIE AND JANET McFARLAND]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Frozen out of Facebook]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.The stay-at-home mom was cut off not only from her 330 friends, including many she had no other way of contacting, but also from the pages she had set up for the jewellery design business she runs from her Atlanta-area home.]]></description>
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<author><![CDATA[BARBARA ORTUTAY]]></author>
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