Conrad Black found guilty!

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Oooer. He's a vile, vile man, but blimey, he could go to prison for the rest of his life.

Cor.

no, it will go to appeals and he'll serve bare minimum
guilty was the only verdict tho

while we're on about columnists, I used to loathe Barbara Amiel's in MacLeans (Cdn weekly mag)

10 and serves 3

PMSL at Lady A doing prison visits. (Sorry, I know that is Mean and Glorying in the Misery of Others, have had knackering day and do not feel charitable.)

isn't he pretty ancient though? I'm sure he'll do an 'Ernest Saunders' and use his age and supposed ill health ( which miraculously improves once out of the slammer) as well as top lawyers to escape his full punishment.

Don't these types always?!

Wow. The coverage of the trial I'd seen suggested the prosecution weren't doing very well.

I'm afraid I can't dredge up much sympathy for him. Or her.

Maybe he'll get Bush to issue a pardon, like whathisface with the silly name did.

wHO IS HE AND WHAT DID HE DO?

Brilliant .

Can't wait to see some footage of Babs' crestfallen face.

He's only in his early sixties I think, so I'm not sure "ill-health" can get him out of jail. Bring on the orange jumpsuit.

I think in the UK you can get away with 'oooh, I'm a bit poorly' but the US is brutal. He'll be banged up alright. Only personal friends of the President get away with anything they like

Mind you, I suppose he might be a chum of Bush. Anything is possible in those circles.

Conrad Black

'conservatively 15-20' according to R4.

good! that may well sound uncharitable but let's face it he is a greedy bastard and a thief of titanic proportions.

Couldn't have happened to nicer bloke...

I did enjoy that CCTV footage of him removing files from his office, secret squirrel-style. I'd knock ten years off his sentence just for the amusement this has afforded me over the last year or so.

Blimey.

My father's career was on the receiving end of a CB hostile takeover in the 80's which left him redundant with 2 small children. My father's abiding memory is the sheer ruthlessness with which it was conducted We have no sympathy for the man in our family...

the man is a crook, throw away the key!

roffle - came on here thinking it was another HP thread...

Note to self Sirius & Conrad Black are not the same

It's splendid isn't it?
What a come down for poor ole Barb.

I was driving the car when I heard. Nearly crashed it as I shrieked with joy. Andrew Neil on Newsnight commented that this reflects a real determination in the US to nail big-time white-collar crime and that he would probably have got away with it had he been put on trial here.

lololol. great news.

hope this isn't going to be dressed up as white-collar crime when it comes to sentencing, the way they did with the guinness trial. it's theft and the victims deserve justice.

Was so releived he got done
What an asshole of a man

Now what about his wife hmmmm