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Eddie Greenspan’s moment in the sun
Posted on June 25, 2008 by Douglas Bell
Three days in, it’s pretty clear. With the cross-examinations of Gordon Eckstein and Maria Messina in the defence of Garth Drabinsky, Edward Greenspan seeks nothing short of vindication for his client and himself. After last summer’s mistake by the American lake, wherein his brutal cross-examination of David Radler had even his co-counsel objecting, Eddie is back on the beaten path—and loving it. This time, there are no more jack-in-the-box objections from impertinent Yankee grade schoolers. But there is plenty of time and latitude to roam through and excoriate the half-truths, prevarications and damnable lies of the Crown’s witnesses to what “they call crimes.”
Given this opportunity, Eddie is leaving little in the tank. In suggesting to Ms. Messina that her self-professed status as a benign whistle-blower was little more than an exercise in self-preservation, Eddie was in a full flight of mockery: “Were you thinking Walt Disney thoughts?...Do you view yourself as a saviour of the whole world?...What I’m talking about is the real world, what you are doing is make-believe.”
“Eddie’s being Eddie,” said one visiting legalist in evident admiration. “But let’s face it, he’s got a tough row to hoe.” This latter observation refers to the mountain of documentary evidence that the Crown has piled up, to which they direct their witnesses viva voce, and to which Eddie’s made scant reference to date. Still, it’s Eddie’s time and he’s making the most of it.
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dr June 25, 2008 at 5:04 p.m.
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.f...
Black Opinion
GravityLevity2 June 25, 2008 at 5:56 p.m.
Thanks, dr. for the good news about Black, Boultbee, Atkinson & Kipnis.
The appeals judges' affirmation of the convictions all but accuses the original defense of deliberate dishonesty in its handling of instructions to the jury. Eddie Greenspan has indeed a lot to live down.
kjopc June 25, 2008 at 7:23 p.m.
We can now add Judge Posner and his two Appeal Court colleagues to Black's list of conspirators. All these people trying to steal his riches from him. Tsk, tsk. Naughty U.S. of A.
Good job, judges! Black should consider himself lucky that they didn't up the penalty. The slime!
Casey June 25, 2008 at 7:51 p.m.
Thrilled and delighted with the Appeals' Affirmation of the convictions. Anyone heard about or know where BA has been hiding lately? Not a peep out of her. Looking foreward to reading CB's attacks on the learned Appeals Judges and how they all missed the points and haven't a clue what they are talking about.....lol. Six years to go for the scammer and convicted felon and then deportation to the UK aka kicked out of the United States and never allowed to return.
Casey June 25, 2008 at 8:03 p.m.
Thinking aloud - some lucky person is going to get the Palm Beach mansion since Black, as stated above, will be deported. Maybe leaf should buy it.....lmao.
dr June 25, 2008 at 8:34 p.m.
Let the civil suits begin!
Casey June 25, 2008 at 9:25 p.m.
Fast Eddie may be having a temporary " moment in the sun " as he had with Radler but justice will once again prevail and Slimy Eddie will have even more to live down - Garth is going to be convicted - you heard it here....lol. Can't decide who is more weasely - Garth with the girth or Fast Eddie.
kjopc June 25, 2008 at 11:58 p.m.
BTW, Radler is still in the U.S. jug...
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSer...
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 12:49 a.m.
Yippee!
Good news on two counts - one, the crook Lard Black of Crosswaysshagged has been reconfirmed as a thief and liar and, two, the ostrich has been cleared:
"It is pure legend and a canard on a very distinguished bird. Zoological Society of San Diego, Birds: Ostrich,www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-ostrich.html (visited June 12, 2008) (“When an ostrich senses danger and cannot run away, it flops to the ground and remains still,with its head and neck flat on the ground in front of it.
"Because the head and neck are lightly colored, they blend in with the color of the soil. From a distance, it just looks like the ostrich has buried its head in the sand, because only the body is visible”). It is too late, however, to correct this injustice."
Yes, the reputation of the world's largest bird has been restored and that of another bird - Ornijailus canadensis - dealt the final blow.
Karma be praised.
leaf June 26, 2008 at 2:18 a.m.
good news on 3rd count: fickton finally admits to his poor writing content and style and describes it as such: "this drivel, worse than even some of the stuff Morticia has written"
how truly spoken... praise the lord.
☺
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 2:33 a.m.
How funny! What is the story behind leaf? Does she see me as a kind of "father figure", a substitute for the real father who left her the twisted thing she is? LOL
In a way it's flattering to be the subject of so much attention. Poor little leaf has read and saved every word I have written on this blog in over a year. She reads and re-reads it, seeking a clue to my identity, dreaming of perhaps a word of approval from me.
She should dream on, she will never get rid of the memory of daddy, but I can soon drift away to pastures new now that His Lardship's goose is definitely cooked and only more unpleasantness awaits him and Morticia when the civil suits get under way.
Karma be praised
☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
leaf June 26, 2008 at 3:21 a.m.
so fickton, what do you plan on doing this summer, other than writing drivel?
"I live 400 metres from the main beach in Helsinki. In sunny weather like this, and with miniskirts back in fashion, my eyes are out on stalks like a snail's every time I step outside the door. And that's when they're only on their way to the beach!"
does your little slutty daughter parade on the beach too, for old men like you to drool themselves silly?
"I wouldn't call her a whore, because a whore often gives value for money."
i didn't call her a whore, i called her slutty.
"The arsehole is different, but the doo-doo is the same."
speaking of erogenous zones, she said she's gotten gonorrhea from you.
"The correct spelling of Gonoronay in British English is "gonorrhoea".
Or she could just go the simple way and spell it C-L-A-P."
you have no shame!
"I'm having fun at the idea of her squirming and doing all I can to make her squirm more."
you perv!!! get out of here!
go bloody drift away and roll in your pastures of manure. you PIG!
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 6:58 a.m.
Oh, dear, looks like I've upset Morticia really big time. But I guess she's under even more strain than she has been for the past few years now that His Lardship's chances of shuffling out of the hoosegow any time before late 2013 are even less than my prospects of spending a weekend in Bora Bora with Scarlett Johansson. LOL
Civil suits are looming and Morticia's loyalty to her poorer-by-the-day meal ticket will soon be put to a real test.
Then the poor fallen hag asks: "does your little slutty daughter parade on the beach too, for old men like you to drool themselves silly?"
"Little daughter"? She is 35 and a judge, and quite presentable on any beach now that you mention it.
Not like Morticia, who can't stand sunlight - as she has told us in one of her silly columns.
I bet she recoils from a crucifix as well, sleeps in a coffin or hanging upside down from a tree and casts no reflection in a mirror. No wonder she has mentioned in another article how much she detests garlic.
Poor old dear! But, she should be grateful for the British welfare state that she opposed so much. She now qualifies for a pension and a free bus pass, free dental treatment for her fangs and possibly even a home help as she grows more and more decrepit.
Karma can be a bitch to the really evil. Right, Morticia?
☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
ROFLMAO @ a loser for whom things will only be getting worse.
Hahaha
jade_lee June 26, 2008 at 7 a.m.
leaf leaf lear
leaf leaf dear
Go flush your head down a toilet bowl and cool yourself off, your opinions have been muted, you fought for the wrong side and it points to your bad judgement.
jade_lee June 26, 2008 at 7:39 a.m.
If a defense lawyer does not convince the courts that his guilty client is innocent, does that suggest the defense lawyer is a good lawyer? I still say EG is a great defense lawyer. Did he believe CB was innocent? I doubt it. I thought CB was guilty and I also say he was lucky the sentencing judge was soft on sentence lengths. She is clearly one of the best judges they have.
Casey June 26, 2008 at 11:04 a.m.
ade_lee June 26, 2008 at 7:39 a.m.
" If a defense lawyer does not convince the courts that his guilty client is innocent, does that suggest the defense lawyer is a good lawyer? I still say EG is a great defense lawyer. Did he believe CB was innocent? I doubt it. I thought CB was guilty and I also say he was lucky the sentencing judge was soft on sentence lengths. She is clearly one of the best judges they have. "
I disagree with your assessment re Fast Eddie - all bluster and bravado and insults and intimidation. Your opinion of Judge St.Eve is warranted - she is one of the best! And clearly, the handwriting is on the wall - she will most assuredly be appointed to the US Supreme Court. How proud we in the United States are of this incredible lady..:-).
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 11:26 a.m.
I wonder will the Nazional Post update this bio now that His Lardship's appeal has been shot down in flames?
Biography
"Conrad Black is the founder of the National Post. From 1996 to 2000, he was chairman of the Southam Company, Canada's leading newspaper company. Mr. Black is also a writer and commentator, the author of Render Unto Caesar (the life of Maurice Duplessis), the autobiographical A Life in Progress, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom, and numerous articles in the National Interest, Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, and many other publications. He was a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Meetings for twenty years, a member of the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations, and of the Americas Society (New York), and remains a member of the Trilateral Commission, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and a trustee of the Hudson Institute (Washington). He is a life peer of the United Kingdom (Lord Black of Crossharbour, since 2001), a member of the Privy Council and Officer of the Order of Canada, and a knight of the Holy See. He has been a director of many prominent companies, including Brascan, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, CanWest, and Sotheby's."
I love that "member of the Privy Council" bit. In his case it nowadays means he sits down with Bubba and the other boys to figure out the best strategy for cleaning the sh1thouses in the hoosegow.
Karma be praised.
P.S. I see leaf/Morticia has gone real quiet. She ought to take up sports to keep her mind off her woes. Something like heading the hammer or catching the javelin. Heeheehee...
leaf June 26, 2008 at 1:56 p.m.
“Thus, this drivel, worse than even some of the stuff Morticia has written: " The idea of unwanted conjunctions with his anus in the not-too-distant future is certainly an added incentive to head for the hills." ----> the perv commenting on his own writing.
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drivel "WORSE" than morticia!
hahahahaha
i've shared this pearl with one of your favorites websites, fickton. you don't mind, do you?
leaf June 26, 2008 at 2:11 p.m.
hey jello.... i'm working on a PR memo about the blog and am fact checking.
you did describe yourself as a female chinese prison guard, correct?
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 2:35 p.m.
Poor leaf, must have had a bad night remembering all those nights when daddy and the boys had their way with her, and now she can't even try phoning me, boo-hoo, so she's really repeating herself a lot.
Meanwhile, back at the hoosegow and His Lardship is probably getting just a little worried about his sphincter. A lot can happen in the 1,600? days between now and late 2013.
I almost feel sorry for Morticia for a fraction of a second and then reality reminds me that she deserves all the misery she's getting - and more.
Karma be praised.
leaf June 26, 2008 at 3:22 p.m.
"drivel, worse than even some of the stuff Morticia has written"
lol.... i can't get over it. fickton finally seeing his drivel for what it is. hahaha... too much
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hey buddy, i'm sorry you had to ditch your phone number. you're a tough nut to crack: over 4 months of nuisance calls!
but teehee...you're no match.
again, i want to thank everyone who participated and showed solidarity spirit.
the phone # this prick had for so long: no more.
fickton, can you imagine my two middle fingers at their maximum extension?
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 4:04 p.m.
"hey jello.... i'm working on a PR memo about the blog and am fact checking.
you did describe yourself as a female chinese prison guard, correct?"
The poor little raggedy doll daddy's plaything now wants people to help her. Why not tell us something about herself - ball park sort of?
Let me guess, age late 60s, body much altered surgically, chemically and so on, nose greatly truncated from its original length, turkey neck becoming increasingly difficult to hide, ankles swelling (too bad for the Manolo Blackasses)
Fintan June 26, 2008 at 4:12 p.m.
"again, i want to thank everyone who participated and showed solidarity spirit.
the phone # this prick had for so long: no more."
Actually no one participated except one other nutbar. It says a lot for the decency of the posters on this blog - and for their common sense - that they did not want to join with our resident parental sexual abuse and consequently deranged pest. The other (altogether 5) calls came from a fruitcake who lives on a boat in a marina on Vancouver Island.
Maybe I'll drop by one day to say hello and explain to him where he erred. LOL
Meanwhile, poor little leafie is vicariously suffering as the terrible reality of His Lardship's future begins to sink in.
ROFLMAO
Karma be praised, and more power to Bubba's elbow. Well, not his elbow, actually, but y'all get my drift.
leaf June 26, 2008 at 4:39 p.m.
"but y'all get my drift"
he means his drivel of course.
those finns sound like texans, don't they...
leaf June 26, 2008 at 4:46 p.m.
+358 949 0744
"nyt kuluva joukko on ei korkea ikä kotona asepalvelus. haluta ruudullinen sinun joukko eli koetus sinun herättää jälleen."
"this number is no longer in service. please check your number or try your call again."
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Casey June 26, 2008 at 5:45 p.m.
leaf June 26, 2008 at 4:46 p.m.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Yup - Fintan's mission accomplished - not yours, you dimwitted scumbucket - methinks you have your " missions " confused, bluffo.....lol.
Fintan - wins / leaf loses....again.
leaf June 26, 2008 at 6:08 p.m.
casey dear, thinking is an activity over and above your field of expertise.
proof: you've outed yourself twice, didn't you?
mind you, this shortcoming of yours is terribly helpful to me so very appreciated nonetheless.
Fintan June 27, 2008 at 1:33 a.m.
Is leaf a nutbar or what? The Finnish phrase she wrote above is incomprehensible; looks like she tried a useless translation function on the Internet.
Oh, and I still have two phone numbers here, plus two mobile and, of course, the line for my computer - and leaf never once managed to wake me at night.
Besides, she really ought to go to the authorities about the parental sexual abuse she suffered and also get counselling. Crimes like that are never statute-barred and her brothers are probably abusing kids right now because leaf feels too much shame to report their earlier crimes and there is nothing to stop them. Instead, she accuses others of being pedophiles on zero grounds whatsoever and wastes police time. And would anyone on this blog ask her to do a spot of babysitting? Cold chills run down spine!
Anyway, all that matters now is that His Lardship's arse is in the can and Morticia is a jailbird's wife - and possible an accomplice to his crimes. She must be in a living hell of her own creation - and it will only get worse as time rolls on and the civil suits against her and her jailbird husband begin.
It will be a delight to watch - but not for leaf, or lit. Hahaha
leaf June 27, 2008 at 2:51 a.m.
65 y.o. unemployed man, living on less than $20,000/year has 2 land phones + 2 cell phones + 1 computer dedicated land line.
what's wrong with this picture?
hint: the old fart is a mythomaniac. he repeats his lies often enough that he ends up believing them. pedophiles are known mythomaniacs as they need to lie to cover-up their "lifestyle".
Fintan June 28, 2008 at 1:12 p.m.
Lovely to see leafie, when she's not brooding about what daddy and bros did to her, brooding about my finances. She fails to take into account what has happened to the euro and the dollar since I wrote that a year ago, and the fact that I now have a 50% pension, but am very employed, in addition to which I'll get the full pension in November (by which time His Lardship's arse will have been in the can for eight months) and I plan to keep on working for some time at least. In fact, the work I'm now getting is more lucrative than earlier, because I am free to pick and choose.
Besides income, leafie, there are such things as inherited wealth, accumulated assets and benefits (like paid-for phone lines and computer equipment) that do not count as income.
In other words, leafie, to quote the old British peter Sellers film, "I'm all right, Jack".
Sorry if your jealousy is getting the better of you, but I'm not responsible for your social and every other kind of deprivation.
ROFLMAO @ u.
Hee-hee-hee
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