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Here’s Conrad Black, the former owner of the Sun-Times, writing from his federal prison cell in Florida to identify with impeached governor Rod Blagojevich. Black was convicted in 2007 of corrupt business practices and sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Now the same U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago that prosecuted Black is after our governor, and Black calls U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald “Chicago’s very own Torquemada.”
“He generally travels on a three-wheeled electric-motorized vehicle because of a long-standing muscular affliction, and drives through crowds of the press on his tricycle, threatening to bash journalistic crania with his silver-handled cane. When overwrought, which is not infrequently, he drives his little conveyance around in tight circles, wagging his chubby index finger like a parody of Hitler, and erupting verbally in wildly unpredictable allegations and images. It is impressive in a way, and at the least, entertaining. His courtroom performance is almost a vaudeville act. He is the archetypal small-office criminal lawyer, in a pre-First World War building, rarely having ever represented an innocent, or even a respectable client.”
