Conrad Black asserts his innocence without qualification with respect to each and every one of the charges set forth in the indictment,

You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time. -Lord Dragnys.

We would ask that the press respect our client's and his family's privacy and any further statements will be released through these offices.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint

[It charged that Mr. Newman had falsely and maliciously written in his 2004 autobiography,] Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power, ... engaged in a wide range of criminal acts spanning many years, including mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property and money laundering.

Exaggerated claims laced with outright lies