Charity Begins at Home? Perhaps Not at Hollinger.

Reports on the allegations from Hollinger International that former CEO Conrad Black used company money to make donations in his family name in order to secure a position among society's elite. Donations made by Lord Black and his wife Barbara Amiel Black to benefits such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the New York Public Library; Consideration of how Hollinger filed suit to recover $1.25 billion from top-level Hollinger executives for their looting of more than $400 million over seven years; How Lord Black donated $283,000 to the Metropolitan Opera where he and his wife were given a plaque.