Conrad Black convicted of fraud

[OwlHoot]

Anyone else participating in the honourable British tradition of laughing like a drain at the downfall of the arrogant and powerful?

Yes, but now he's in danger of becoming an underdog, I'm rooting for him

[TinTin]

Punchbag for the hate-the-rich mob

I agree with Owl - if the same rules were apllied to our 'honourable' ex-PM and his cronies, they would have got a lot longer sentences.
How did TB acquire a property portfolio in Connaught Sq, Bristol, etc worth over £ 25 m in 10 years or so as a PM? It wasn't from his 'meagre' £ 150k or so salary, was it not?
Anyone with a Ltd. Co. is 'allowed' a certain amount of expenses, don't tell me nobody here hasn't fiddled them. Conrad Black did that admittedly on a grand-scale but still it was small fry compared with other type of fraud like Enron, whose perpetrators got off lightly.
At the end of the day, the jury took 12 days to decide and he was found guilty on some (not all) the charges, so obviously it wasn't a clear-cut case. It seems to me that if he were a US citizen, he would have been found innocent. Same principle as the US Congress having the audacity to investigate BAE. Put your own f'n house in order first, bunch of morons!

[Lambros]

George Galloway gives Contrad Black grief on his radio show.
Powerful stuff. Listen at:

http://www.spiderednews.com/GeorgeGa...htm?vid=135639

[TinTin]

Hypocrite

'Those that live in glasshouses, shouldn't throw stones' - GG is not exactly whiter than white, more like a likeable rogue. He was nearly convicted of embezzling funds from an Iraq charity he was promoting.

[Old Greg]

'Those that live in glasshouses, shouldn't throw stones' - GG is not exactly whiter than white, more like a likeable rogue. He was nearly convicted of embezzling funds from an Iraq charity he was promoting.

Nearly convicted? So acquitted, then - not that alike at all. Come to think of it, did Galloway even get to court or was he just investigated?

[Lambros]

'Those that live in glasshouses, shouldn't throw stones' - GG is not exactly whiter than white, more like a likeable rogue. He was nearly convicted of embezzling funds from an Iraq charity he was promoting.

But it was Conrad Black's newspaper (The Telegraph) who tried to nail Galloway in 2003.

[Old Greg]

But it was Conrad Black's newspaper (The Telegraph) who tried to nail Galloway in 2003.

David Blair, a senior Telegraph correspondent 'found' documents in the Iraqi Oil Ministry apparently showing Galloway had taken money from the Iraqi govenrment. Galloway was awarded £150k in the subsequent libel case.