British legislator Conrad Black will be spending six and a half years in a federal prison in Florida following his conviction in a multi-million-dollar fraud trial.
Black, who goes by the title of “Lord Black of Crossharbour”, was appointed in 2001 as a legislator-for-life in the British parliament.
The former newspaper owner gave up his Canadian citizenship so that he could accept the feudal British title of Lord and become a legislator.
The conviction for mail fraud and obstruction of justice will have no effect on Mr. Black’s status as a legislator. Under British law he cannot be removed from parliament.