12 Quotes by Edward Greenspan

Mr Black asserts his innocence without qualification... (and) has, at all times, acted in good faith.

On Friday, I filed a notice of leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Canada, and this morning, Mr. Schreiber was released on bail pending the decision of the Supreme Court on the leave to appeal.

Next year will be spent concentrating on preparing for the trial in Chicago commencing in March of '07, and I doubt very much whether (Black) will be a newsmaker next year, let alone Business Newsmaker of the Year.

He is confident that, when given a full and fair opportunity to defend himself, he will be found innocent.

There is nothing contentious about obtaining court approval for a trip outside of North America. Court approval for international travel is normal and is not bothersome or any burden to Mr. Black or his counsel.

Everything that we know about the United States tells us that they will not respect any protective order here. They will do whatever they can to get the evidence.

No such initiative has been attempted in recent much larger white collar financial crime cases where there were allegations of accounting fraud, bankruptcy, thousands of people out of work, billions of dollars lost to investors -- none of which has occurred or is alleged here.

A U.S. court has no jurisdiction over this alleged conduct in Canada.

This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor. These latest allegations add nothing new to the indictment and, when we are given the opportunity, they will be demonstrated to be unfounded as well.