Conrad Black Spent $4.6M To Make Park Ave. Apt. 'Habitable'

“Did the $12,000 mahogany shaving basin put the apartment in a habitable condition, Mr. Black?”

Donald Trump was a no-show, but there was plenty to digest at the Conrad Black fraud trial yesterday.

Here’s what the jury heard: Black renovated his 4,500-square-foot Park Avenue apartment with $4.6M worth of “fittings” — which Black’s Hollinger media agreed to pay for as a “capital expenditure” — to make it “habitable.”

Just what kind of fittings does one buy for $4.6

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