He was accused of the fraud of depriving the company of his ‘honest services’, not of taking anything that didn’t belong to him other than his own time.
Conrad Black was also caught on security cam removing documents that an Ontario court ordered him not to touch.
In any country, that’s interfering with an investigation, obstruction of justice, and it is a crime.
Not quite - He was so accused, but found not guilty.
Personally, I find the evidence against him compelling, but perhaps not high enough to clear the bar for conviction.
And I also see this as analogous to being both found not guilty of a felony, and, concomitantly, also convicted of conspiracy to engage in that same crime.
I am content to let SCOTUS rule on the question of Judicial overreach