Lord Black blows off all that good karma

Last week he trotted out some of the people that see the other Conrad Black, perhaps the guy that helps Little old Ladies cross the street, buys Girl guide cookies and helps out at the local soup kitchen.

Now as they say the other shoe drops, given as he is to eloquent but at times long winded soliloquies, his Lordship rattled off a testament to Jurisprudence that will most likely catch the eye of the presiding judge on his current legal travails.

In a wide ranging interview with the BBC, Lord Crossharbour offered up some interesting but not particularly helpful observations of his current involvement with American Justice.

Such discussion points as:

"This is not an honour I sought, but it has been my honour to show the shortcomings of the plea-bargain system and the shortcomings of the corporate governance zealots."

"They started out with all that nonsense about a $500-million kleptocracy and racketeering and looting and personal enrichment at the expense of the shareholders. All of that's gone over the side ... anyone who actually looks at the evolution of the case and the evidence supporting the charges will see what rubbish it is,"

"At least in the United States people know how their system operates and there's a fair amount of cynicism about this sort of thing," he said. "I think the conventional media wisdom in the U.K. is a kind of false bourgeois piety and priggishness that assumes that whatever American prosecutors say is true."

All of which may one day be proven true, relieving His Lordship of the burdens of his battles, but perhaps they are comments that might have been best left for one of his lengthy tomes, one on his current tribulations which may make for an interesting read.

A quote from former U.S. prosecutor Jacob Frenkel from yesterday, sums up the soup for Lord Black

"The judge likely would be in the process of making her decision now," he said. "The absence of remorse under any circumstances is not helpful before sentencing."

If things don't go his way in a week or so, His Lordship may have a fair amount of time to flesh out his thoughts on the American legal system and to get to work on the ultimate Baring of the soul of Lord Black...

Globe and Mail--Black defends his rant against U.S. system
BBC--Conrad Black protests innocence