Posted on 02/02/2019 8:12:25 AM PST by Twotone
I more or less lost interest in newspapers when my old boss Conrad Black stopped running them. His flagship Daily Telegraph in London is a pale shadow of its former self, and The Chicago Sun-Times is even more diminished, a pale shadow of a pale shadow. Lord Black's career as a publisher ended with a multi-count conviction in US federal court in the Northern District of Illinois for a "corporate governance" "crime" that none of his enemies can even explain.
He was imprisoned, and, either because he's Canadian or a member of the House of Lords, was deemed ineligible for minimum-security and incarcerated among a rough crowd in Florida to whom, when I visited him, he seemed to endear himself. (In prison he taught American history classes, as remedial education for the deficiencies of American public schools.) I found it amazing that he was not only surviving but thriving. Beyond his cell, he fought his conviction, up past a somnolent appeal judge, the overrated and arrogant Richard Posner who (as was all too apparent in court) hadn't even read the briefs, and all the way to the Supreme Court,. Two years into his sentence everything was tossed out except one count.
Whereupon the original trial judge, Amy St Eve, notwithstanding what had happened on her watch, sent him back to gaol.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Justice to the highest bidder. Maybe.
Get used to it.
When the Leftists run the Republican clowns completely out of town there will be many of us facing “gaol” for crimes we didn’t do and don’t understand.
There will be blood.
A few errors in the article ...
Yes he got what Trump is getting today because he influenced a lot of people with facts....the left hates facts!
You are right. The courts are out of control.
Errors? Such as?
Go to the guys wiki page
Yes. It is no longer about justice. It is about winning and punishing enemies.
Conrad Black’s? Mark Steyn’s? Johnnie Cochran’s?
Wiki is not necessarily a reliable source of info.
Conrad black.
agree. thanks for the post.
great article. even better speeches at the George Jonas dinner video imbedded in the the article.
Okay, I’ve scanned quickly thru the Wikipedia page. Doesn’t it bother you that the fraud charges were thrown out leaving only ‘obstruction’? Sounds pretty exactly like what’s going on with Mueller et al.
A prosecutor goes after a high profile defendant & gets most of his case tossed. There should be a punishment for that. The position of prosecutor is one perfectly suited for abuse of power.
I’ll go with Steyn on this one.
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