Lord Black of Cross Harbour, also known as Conrad Black, gets to spend the next six and a half years as a guest of the US Federal Government in a Florida penitentiary. So says the judge, Amy St. Eve, in a Chicago courtroom yesterday. There are appeals pending, to muddy the waters for years to come and Conrad Black, with any luck, will stay on the outside of the crowbar hotel for most of it.
Also, with any luck, Lord Black will listen to his lawyers and shut the hell up while the appeals work their way through the courts. Black is a verbal bloviator of the first order and has now discovered email, as demonstrated in series of emails with a CBC reporter, as the sentencing date came closer. Essentially, Black has said that the time to be spent in the jug will be boring but not insurmountable.
Which speaks to remorse: Mistah Black, he ain’t got none. Which means, he can go to jail, serve his time and you’ll not see a tear shed here.
Bye bye Conrad. Serves you right.
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