Former media mogul Conrad Black served three years for defrauding investors. He was released Friday, and is thought to have been placed in an SUV and given a police escort.
“He has been released and he is in ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement) custody,” spokesman Nestor Yglesias told the Toronto Star. “I can’t tell you more than that.”
Other than spending 42 months in prison in the United States, Black has no status there.
Black, inmate 18330-424, was sprung from U.S. federal prison in Miami shortly after 8 a.m.
Canada Border Services was unable to say this morning when Black might become their responsibility.
Yglesias said earlier than ICE routinely holds people in custody while their deportation is being arranged.
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Black no longer holds a Canadian passport after giving up his citizenship in 2001 so he could become Lord Black of Crossharbour while he was a British media baron.
He has, however, won a one-year temporary resident permit from Citizenship and Immigration in Ottawa to return to the country where he was born 67 years ago.
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Black reportedly paid a $200 fee on March 20 in order to apply for the permit, the Associated Press has reported.
He had been convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice while in control of Hollinger Inc. and a global media empire.
He and his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, own a home in Toronto, where he has spent most of his life.
His memoir, A Matter of Principle, is one of three nominees for the 2012 National Business Book Award and media reports have suggested he hopes to be at the awards ceremony May 28.
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