And he lambasted ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow , the key prosecution witness who'd already pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud in 2004, and accepted ten years in the hoosegow.
Of course, none of this reveals anything new: Fastow had already in January 2004 pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud--two of the 98 counts he'd faced--agreeing to serve ten years in the hoosegow.
Conrad Black, at the high end, has a scary and persuasive picture of how his counsel, the judge, and the prosecutors all merrily congratulated each other on their combined professional excellence just before sending him off to the hoosegow for several years.