Things I saw that left my jaw swinging: Part 4

One last bit of business is left over from last week’s roundup of year-enders: I recall a July moment when Eddie Greenspan, who would take questions from a pudding cup if it turned up with a microphone, demonstrated a flair for hypocrisy unmatched by his fellow officers of the court. Eddie sent an e-mail to Toronto Life denouncing Mark Steyn as a liar and all-around scoundrel for suggesting that the Eddies had sought to extract an extra million each from Lord Black within days of the summary argument. The following morning, Greenspan confronted me and denounced me in front of a crowd for having the temerity to publish said missive on this blog “without my permission.” Asked about the entire matter some weeks later, a senior member of the defence bar in Toronto took a sardonic expression before responding, “Maybe he didn’t ask for a million.”