McNabb in the News

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb has been quoted by the Canadian Press in a story about Lord Conrad Black.

…U.S. authorities need to move quickly to lay charges against Black to get a potentially lengthy case started, said Douglas McNabb, senior principal at McNabb Associates….

"The U.S. cannot seek Mr. Black's extradition until after he has been charged," said McNabb, adding he's heard rumours that U.S. authorities could announce charges within a week.

Charges would lead authorities to request Black's extradition and to put a notice of the U.S. arrest warrant on Interpol, the international police network.

Even if charged and facing extradition, Black has several legal and appeal options that alone could drag out the extradition case for a few years at least, McNabb said.

"He's not a terrorist, he's a white collar guy, and he's got money and he's prepared to fight it," McNabb said from Houston.

Black, who gave up his Canadian citizenship a few years ago in a dispute with former prime minister Jean Chretien over a British peerage, could face years of prison time, "absolutely, without doubt if he's convicted," McNabb said.

That gives Black a good reason to take each legal battle as far as he can.

There's little reason to see why Britain would prevent Black's extradition, McNabb said, since in 2003 the country changed its own extradition laws allowing the U.S. to extradite people as long as they could prove charges were pending.^[1]

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[1] Gillian Livingston, Long Legal Battle Expected if U.S. Authorities Lay Charges, Extradite Black, Canadian Press, Aug. 25, 2005.