Things looking black for Black

[pastafarian]

OK, I admit it. I've been basking in schaudenfreude, if that's how you spell it.

Yes inDEEDy, taking great pleasure in the misfortunes of another. :twisted:

But not just ANY other, oh no! Our formerly Canadian, Lord Black, the Man Who Would-Be Rupert Murdoch: our own, Scrooge, Ken Lay, Charles X and Gordon Gecko wrapped into one and his pretentious harpy of a mate Babs "Marie Antoinette" Amiel.

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Conrad Black, the onetime press magnate who built Hollinger International Inc. into the world's third-largest publisher of English-language newspapers, was charged with helping steal $51.8 million from the company.

The 61-year-old former chairman and chief executive officer of Hollinger International, along with three former company executives, was accused of wire fraud and mail fraud in an 11- count indictment unsealed in Chicago today. Prosecutors issued a warrant for the arrest of Black, who's been a British lord since 2001. He faces as much as 40 years in jail and $2 million in fines if convicted on all charges.

Black's prosecution is the highest-profile criminal case against a former CEO since the arrests last year of WorldCom Inc.'s Bernard Ebbers and Enron Corp.'s Kenneth Lay. At his peak, Black controlled Britain's Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post and 60 percent of Canada's dailies, drawing comparisons to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch.

``Insiders at Hollinger -- all the way to the top of the corporate ladder -- whose job it was to safeguard the shareholders, made it their job to steal and conceal,'' U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, whose office brought the charges, said in a statement.

I'm taking tomorrow off to Christmas shop, and I've already started drinking toasts to the Black Lord and his consort.

Cheers!! Ain't payback a bitch! :beer:

For you beer aficionados, that's an ice-cold Creemore Springs Premium Lager in that glass. It only looks like Guinness because of the light!

 

[GL Schmitt]

Close enough for a cigar with that Xmas Cheer, Pasta.

It's schadenfreude, literally "damage joy." :wink:

Now let's hope that Patrick Fitzgerald and his merry little elves can bring down the Bush cabal and stuff them into our stockings, too.

 

[peapod]

Another hero bites the dust :? 8)

 

[Colpy]

No fan of Lord Black myself, I think the only decent thing he ever did was create the National Post.

I confess to a slight infatuation in the past with Barbara Amiel.

That is one bright, and beautiful woman.

Unfortunately, it seems she fell in with a bad crowd.

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: Things looking black

Amiel is just as crooked as Black. She has no journalistic integrity whatsoever and has acted as an apologist for the white-collar criminal element fo as long as I can remember.

 

[pastafarian]

She has no journalistic integrity whatsoever and has acted as an apologist for the white-collar criminal element fo as long as I can remember.

I confess to having had a morbid attraction to her vitriol against us mere mortals that used to lurk in the pages of Maclean's.

In fact, for a while, I believed she'd become anorexic, procured a dye-job, suffered a mildly debilitating head injury and lost her thesaurus about the time a certain "Ann Coulter" began to appear in print.

 

[Colpy]

She has no journalistic integrity whatsoever and has acted as an apologist for the white-collar criminal element fo as long as I can remember.

I confess to having had a morbid attraction to her vitriol against us mere mortals that used to lurk in the pages of Maclean's.

In fact, for a while, I believed she'd become anorexic, procured a dye-job, suffered a mildly debilitating head injury and lost her thesaurus about the time a certain "Ann Coulter" began to appear in print.

Now that's funny. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Two points for Pastafarian.

Ann Coulter is off the edge, her defense of McCartyism is way beyond the pale.

I didn't always agree with Amiel, far from it, but the woman's intelligence simply blazed through everything she wrote.

Alas, so much talent, so little moral fibre.

 

[Jo Canadian]