Swank party was business 'masquerading' as social event: Black witness Last Updated: Monday, June 11, 2007 | 2:16 PM ET The Associated Press A posh birthday party for Conrad Black's wife was really a business event "masquerading" as a social gathering and was not unlike other Hollinger International dinners, a defence witness said Monday at the former press baron's fraud trial. "The party didn't seem to me very different from [another] Hollinger party I attended, which was not a birthday party but a party for Hollinger directors," John O'Sullivan, a journalist who also wrote speeches for former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, told the court in Chicago. O'Sullivan, who has known the Black family for more than 20 years, said he attended the dinner and considered it a "business event masquerading as a social occasion." ... Michael A. Lebowitz Professor Emeritus Economics Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 Director, Programme in 'Transformative Practice and Human Development' Centro Internacional Miranda, P.H. Residencias Anauco Suites, Parque Central, final Av. Bolivar Caracas, Venezuela fax: 0212 5768274/0212 5777231 http//:centrointernacionalmiranda.gob.ve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
