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Ex-media mogul Conrad Black freed from jail
May 04, 2012
(AP) MIAMI - Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday after serving about three years for defrauding investors.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke did not give an exact time on when Black was released and said he didn't have any other details.

Black, whose empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph of London, The Jerusalem Post and small papers across the U.S. and Canada, had returned to prison last September to finish serving his sentence.

A former member of the British House of Lords, he had been sentenced to
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