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In Re: Hollinger International, Inc. Securities Litigation 04-CV-0834 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COI) J 1 tI L p FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT C) j ,~JNOIS EASTERN DIVISION 2004 In Re HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL, INC . ) Cons . Civil Action No . 04-C-0834 SECURITIES LITIGATION ) C11V ft(-- CLASS ACTION This Document Relates To : ) ALL ACTIONS . ) ~+1 4s ~~, , ~P+ CIS, NOTICE OF FILIN : See Attached ServiceG To List 14i1 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on August 2, 2004 we filed the Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint with the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern Distric t of Illinois, Eastern Division . A copy of this document accompanies this Notice . Respectfully submitted, DATED : August 2, 2004 MUCH SHELIST FREED DENENBERG AMENT & RUBENSTEIN, P.C. Carol V . Gilden Conor R. Crowley 191 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1800 Chicago, IL 60606 Tel: 312-521-2000 Fax : 312-521-2100 Liaison Counsel GRANT & EISENHOFER, P .A. Jay W. Eisenhofer John C . Kairis 1201 North Market Street, Suite 2100 Wilmington, DE 19801-259 9 Tel: 302-622-7000 Fax,. 302-622-7100 LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA & ROBBINS LLP William S. Lerach Travis E. Downs III Scott H. Sahara Erin P. McDaniel 401 B Street , Suite 1700 San Diego, CA 92101 Tel : 619-231-105 8 Fax : 619-231-7423 Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Carol V. Gilden, hereby certify that the foregoing and attached Notice of Filing and Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint were served on counsel listed on the attached service list in the manner indicated on this 2nd day of August, 2004 . Carol V. Gilden, Esq. 3 SERVICE LIST VIA FIRST CLASS MAIL Gordon B . Nash Paula E. Litt John F. Hartmann Curtice W . Scott Veronica Gomez Timothy D . Elliott Gardner Carton & Douglas Schopf & Weiss Michael Duffy 191 N. Wacker 312 W. Randolph Kirkland & Ellis Suite 3700 Suite 300 200 E. Randolph, Suite 5800 Chicago, IL 60606 Chicago, IL 60606 Chicago, IL 60601 Ted S . Helwig David C. Jacobson Nathan P. Eimer Karl R. Barnickol David E. Singer Andrew G. Klevom Katten Muchin Zavis Sonnenschein Nath & Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Rosenman Rosenthal Solberg, LLP 525 West Monroe Street Sears Tower 224 S. Michigan Suite 160 0 233 S. Wacker Drive Suite 1100 Chicago, IL 6066 1 Suite 8000 Chicago, IL 60604 Chicago , IL 60606 Robert Kravitz John L. Warden Leigh R. Lasky Paul Weiss Rifkind Laurent S . Wiesel Lasky & Rifkind, Ltd . Wharton & Garrison Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP 351 W. Hubbard, Suite 406 1285 Avenue of the 125 Broad Street Chicago, IL 6061 0 Americas New York, NY 10004 New York. NY 10019 John T. DeCarlo Michael E. Swartz Marvin A . Miller DeCarlo Connor & Selvo Irwin J. Sugarman Matthew E. Van Tine 533 South Fremont Avenue Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP Jennifer Winter Sprengel 9th Floor 919 Third Avenue Miller Faucher &Cafferty, Los Angeles , CA 9007 1 New York, NY 10022 LLP 30 N. LaSalle Street Suite 3200 Chicago, IL 60602 4 VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS John C. Kairis William S . Lerach GRANT & EISENHOFER, P.A . Darren J . Robbins 1201 N. Market Street Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins, LLP Suite 2100 401 B Street , Suite 1700 Wilmington, DE 19801 San Diego, CA 92101-4297 Marc A. Topaz Richard A. Maniskas Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP Three Bala Plaza East, Suite 40 0 Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOI S EASTERN DIVISION +iUt7 A ?004 In Re HOLLINGER INTERNATIONAL, INC. Cons. Civil Action No . 04-C-0834 SECURITIES LITIGATION, j JUDGE DAVID H . COAR This Document Relates To : ALL ACTIONS . ) CLASS ACTION ko" 6 CONSOLIDATED AMENDED CLASS ACTION COMPLAIN T Lead Plaintiff, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana ("Teachers"), and plain t Washington Area Carpenters Pension and Retirement Fund ("Washington Carpenters") and E . Dean Carlson ("Carlson") on behalf of themselves and all otherpurchasers of Hollinger International, Inc . ("Hollinger" or the "Company") securities (hereinafter collectively the "Plaintiffs") between and including August 13, 1999 and March 31, 2003 (the "Class Period"), allege in this Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint ("Complaint") the following upon information and belief, except as to those allegations concerning Plaintiffs, which are based upon personal knowledge . Plaintiffs' information and belief are based upon, among other things : (a) an investigation conducted by and through their attorneys; (b) review and analysis of filings made by Hollinger with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), (c) review and analysis of filings made by companies affiliated with Hollinger such as Hollinger Inc_, among others ; (d) the complaint filed by the SEC against Hollinger in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, docketed as No . 04C 0.336; (e) the complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by the Special Committee of the board of directors of Hollinger ("Board"), on Hollinger's behalf, against Lord Conrad M . Black ("Lord Black" or "Black") and others, docketed as No. 04 Civ 0040 8 (the "New York Special, _C,or attee Complaint") ; (f) the First Amended Complaint filed in the United States District ~Gourt-for )the Ngrtl e1in District of Illinois by Hollinger International Inc . U.S. ; ` f :`cfr,i t UJUi?T 3(0 against Hollinger Inc. and others, docketed as Case No. 04C-0698 (the "Illinois Special Committee Complaint"); (g) the complaint filed by Cardinal Value Equity Partners, L .P. against Lord Black, Hollinger and others, in the Delaware Chancery Court, docketed as C .A. No. 20406 (the "Cardinal Complaint"); (h) press releases, public statements, news articles, securities analysts' reports and other publications disseminated by or concerning Hollinger ; and (i) other publicly available information about Hollinger . Additionally, Plaintiffs have recently obtained copies of approximately 1,000 separat e documents, including minutes and resolutions of Hollinger's Board of Directors ("Board"), copies of internal emails sent to and from Lord Black and other individual defendants, copies of asset sale agreements and other documents relating to Hollinger's sales of its newspapers and other assets to entities owned and controlled by Lord Black and other individual defendants, copies of non-compete agreements and draft non-compete agreements purportedly entered by Hollinger and/or certain of the individual defendants, and other documents that were submitted as trial exhibits or were otherwise part of thejudicial record in an action filed by Hollinger against Lord Black and others in the Delaware Chancery Court, docketed as C .A. No. 183-N_ These trial exhibits and other documents were filed by Hollinger, Lord Black and others in the Delaware Chancery Court action under seal . Hollinger, Lord Black and other parties to that action refused to provide Plaintiffs with copies of or access to such documents, forcing Plaintiffs to file a motion to lift the protective seal on those documents, which the Delaware Chancery Court granted on June 29, 2004. Plaintiffs obtained copies of the documents in that action on July 12, 2440 . Plaintiffs' claims in this action are based in part on those documents, the transcript of the trial in the Delaware Chancery Court action, and on the pleadings and the court's decision, following trial, issued on February 26, 2004 and reported at 844 A ..2d 1022. In that decision, the Delaware Chancery Court made numerous factual findings regarding certain of the Defendants' wrongdoing which support Plaintiffs' claims in this action- Plaintiffs believe that further substantial evidentiary support will exist for th e -2- allegations in this Complaint after a reasonable opportunity for discovery . Additional facts supporting the allegations contained herein are known only to Defendants or are within their control . SUMMARY OF THE ACTIO N 1 . Throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose the transfer of millions of dollars of Hollinger funds into their own pockets, falsified the Company's financial results, and materially misrepresented Hollinger's sales of Company assets and its dealings with related parties . Defendants compounded their fraud by falsely claiming that the Company's related-party transactions were approved by the Board and the Audit Committee of the Board, when they were not . Defendants also artificially inflated the Company's circulation figures in a pervasive scheme to generate advertising dollars, and thereby portray the Company as reaching growing numbers of consumers, when it was not . 2. The chief architect of this fraud is Lord Conrad N . Black ("Lord Black"), Hollinger's controlling shareholder and former Chief Executive, who raided the Company's coffers to finance his extravagant lifestyle but failed to disclose this piracy to shareholders. Lord Black and his acolytes surreptitiously pocketed millions of dollars generated from sales of Hollinger assets - money that belonged to Hollinger - without disclosure to the shareholders and without being challenged by Hollinger's Board or the Board's Audit Committee which knew or were reckless in not knowing that such theft was taking place . When some of these self-dealing transactions were called to the Board's attention, the directors simply rubber-stamped the transactions and failed to correct prior misrepresentations about the transactions which the Board and Audit Committee knew were false. 3 . Defendants accomplished their fraud by misrepresenting to the shareholders the term s of Hollinger' s asset sales to third party publishers. During the Class Period, Hollinger reported proceeds from the sales of its newspaper assets, and a reduction of its debt and strengthening of its balance sheet through the use of proceeds from such sales- However, unbeknownst to investors, significant portions of those proceedswere diverted to Lord Black and his lieutenants under the guis e -3- of "non-compete payments ." The payments to Lord Black and his lieutenants were concealed from investors, and the Company's independent directors failed to review or negotiate the asset sale transactions or the non-compete payments or assess their fairness to the Company and it s shareholders.
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