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Investment Guru Christopher Browne died earlier this week. GuruFocus columnist Jacob Wolinsky wrote a tribute to the long-time value investor, summarizing his contribution to the investing community.

She ruthlessly seduced him, then blew much of his wealth on lavish parties and private jets.

Good morning, citizens of the world. Anyone who followed the corruption saga of Hollinger newspaper magnate Conrad Black has Christopher Browne to thank.

Jacquie McNish Published on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009 7:41PM EST Last updated on Monday, Dec.

Tweedy Browne principal was proponent of value investing - "buying $1 for 66 cents," as he called it - and known as the man who helped bring down newspaper baron Conrad Black.

An unusual coalition of groups has come together to criticize the federal government's increasing reliance on a statute that is commonly used but little understood: honest-services fraud.

Back when he was in the United States Senate, Vice President Joe Biden came up with the brilliant idea of being able to charge people with the crime of "honest services fraud," something that would permit prosecutors to charge public officials with depriving the public of its intangible right to receive the honest services of public servants.

Skeptical Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they were looking for ways to scale back the broad anti-fraud law that federal prosecutors have used in convicting former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and scores of other corporate and public officials.

Hollinger Canadian Publishing Holdings Co. , Conrad Blacka s former newspaper holding company that sold its operations, won bankruptcy protection to restructure benefit and pension plans for more than 3,000 former employees.

Photograph: Richard A Chapman/AP The jailed press baron Conrad Black will get a last-ditch chance to win freedom as his lawyers try to persuade the US supreme court on Tuesday that the former Telegraph owner's criminal convictions for embezzling $6.1m amounted to misuse by prosecutors of a controversial fraud law.

Prosecutors plan to revise charges against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to avoid any delays that could be caused by an adverse Supreme Court ruling on honest services fraud.

Justices interrupted a lawyer attacking an anti-corruption law only about 25 times in oral arguments yesterday, an unusual amount of leeway.

Former publishing baron Conrad Black will get another day in court on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to clear his name.

Washington - The Supreme Court gave a highly skeptical hearing Tuesday to government lawyers defending the key anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for officials to deprive the public of their "honest services." In recent years, prosecutors have used this law to convict politicians, lobbyists and corporate executives of fraud, even when there ...

Judges join press baron's legal team to condemn the 'honest services' law also used to convict Jeffrey Skilling of Enron Conrad Black leaves the federal courthouse after his sentencing hearing in Chicago on 10 December 2007.

For Samir Cabrera, who is living at a Pensacola prison camp, today could be a big day.

In this Sept. 8, 2006, file photo, former newspaper tycoon Conrad M. Black talks to reporters as he leaves Chicago's federal building after a court appearance.

Paul Waldie Published on Sunday, Dec. 06, 2009 7:57PM EST Last updated on Sunday, Dec.

Enron's Jeffrey Skilling, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, jailed media baron Conrad Black -- all their high profile cases, and many more, could be affected or even gutted by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling later this term that could hogtie federal prosecutors and void convictions.

WASHINGTON - The United States' most potent law against public corruption is in danger of being scaled back or struck down by the Supreme Court.