From the Chicago Sun-Times: (h/t to Romenesko)
A liar is a liar -- and Black didn't know?Yeah, Radler's a liar -- a sneak and a rat, too -- just ask my colleagues
June 20, 2007Conrad Black's lawyers say David Radler is a liar. If they said it once Tuesday, they said it a hundred times. I couldn't keep count.
Sometimes they would just interrupt whatever else they were talking about to say it again.
"He's a liar. He's a liar. He's a liar," repeated Edward Genson, the venerable Chicago defense attorney who doubled up with Black's powerhouse Canadian counsel Edward Greenspan to deliver the closing argument Tuesday at Black's fraud trial -- just in case the jury got tired of hearing only one person calling Radler a liar.
Yes, he's a liar all right. Even the prosecutors have admitted Radler is a liar, while granting him a plea deal to provide testimony against Black and three co-defendants for allegedly ripping off Hollinger International, the Sun-Times' former parent company.
Besides being a liar, Radler is also a sneak and a rat, and if I were to survey the people on the 9th and 10th floors at 350 N. Orleans -- the home of the Sun-Times since Black and Radler sold our old building on Wabash to Donald Trump -- I'm sure I could elicit enough pejoratives to fill the rest of this column.
It hardly comes as news to the people in this company that someone would think that Radler, our former CEO and publisher, is a liar.
Which begs the question: how is it that this comes as news to Conrad Black?