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Host calls Black a crook, Black calls host a fool.

by Hamida Ghafour
 

Disgraced former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black has come out swinging against his critics in a television interview in the UK. 

Black, who served a 42-month prison sentence in America for fraud and was released from jail last May, has insisted that he is not a criminal and has been unfairly targeted by the U.S. justice system.

“(These charges) are rubbish and anyone can see that they are rubbish,” he told interviewer Jeremy Paxman on the BBC who is one of Britain’s best-known television journalists. 

It was terse, at times the pair exchanging verbal blows…. 

Conrad Black loses cool on TV

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