Weekend Wire: Conrad Black to hammer the nails into his own coffin

Newspaper king turned corporate rapist Conrad Black who pulled an Enron, is vowing to clear his name by taking the stand during his trial. Of course most of the time this is not a good idea but the man is guilty as hell so we're sure he will go out of his way to show that he isn't a bad guy. In e-mails expected to be used at his Chicago trial, Black sounds very much like an aristocrat living off shareholders' largesse. "Care must be taken not to allow this [lifestyle] to degenerate into decadence," Black said in a memo sent to his turncoat deputy David Radler and others. "But nor should we allow the agitations of shareholders . . . to force us into a hair shirt, the corporate equivalent of sackcloth and ashes." CONRAD'S SNOOTY WORDS TO HAUNT HIM [NYP] Image [velochicdunord via Flickr]