MEDIA WEASEL: Conrad Black may have taken the "Spark a Rumor, Spike Your Stock" thing a little too serious

It just doesn't get any better for former Hollinger boss turned corporate shit bag Conrad Black. Not only is the man charged with doing an Enron on his company, he is now being charged for alleged insider trading and using anonymous Internet postings to pump his company's flagging stock. The filing also disclosed numerous other misdeeds committed by Black, who was ousted from a publishing empire that once spanned two continents, and included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph in London. In addition to his alleged plundering of hundreds of millions from Hollinger and its sister companies, Black devised other schemes to siphon cash out of his company for personal use, prosecutors charge. BLACK E-MAILS [NYP]