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I'd have to write a book, it's a long and complex case. (If you do want to read a book, Conrad Black's own book on it is very good.) Perhaps start with some of
by gyardley 14y ago
I'd have to write a book, it's a long and complex case. (If you do want to read a book, Conrad Black's own book on it is very good.)
Perhaps start with some of Mark Steyn's writing for the Canadian news magazine Macleans?
http://www.macleans.ca/columnists/article.jsp?content=20070730_107322_107322&id=7&page=1 http://www.macleans.ca/columnists/article.jsp?content=200707...
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- tptacek 14y agoMark Steyn is not exactly a neutral party in the Black case, which has strong political overtones. The article we're commenting on also puts a fair bit of gloss on the affair; Conrad Black may very well be a well-regarded "historian", but what most reasonable people would call him is "one of the richest people in all of media"; he went into his legal troubles with something close to half a billion dollars in assets. The dubious and controversial theory used against Black was "honest services fraud". The statute enforcing it does seem to have been perilously vague. But the moral/ethical/pragmatic reasoning behind it isn't; it boils down to maintaining a fiduciary duty to your shareholders or, in Rod Blagojevich's case, to the citizens of the state you govern. Also, Black wasn't merely charged with honest services fraud, but also with charges like obstructing justice and theft, charges that Richard Posner upheld.