McNabb in the News

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb is quoted in the Toronto Star in an article about Lord Conrad Black.

Several lawyers who specialize in cross-border extradition cases say that if he wanted to, Black might be able to stall U.S. officials seeking his possible extradition for more than a year.

"He's got money and it's not a terrorist act," said Douglas McNabb….

McNabb was one of several lawyers specializing in extradition cases who said yesterday that the U.S. justice department seems to have needlessly complicated its case against Black by not waiting until he was in the U.S. before announcing charges against Radler.

Even if U.S. officials weren't prepared to announce an indictment against Black to coincide with Radler's, "they still could have issued a criminal complaint against Black, which would still have given them 30 days to file the indictment," said McNabb.

He was recently an expert witness at an extradition hearing involving a trio of former Enron bankers in the U.K.

"That effectively would have landlocked Black, and prevented him from leaving the country," McNabb said.

He added that the Department of Justice "just doesn't seem to strategize very well on cases like this."^[1]

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[1] Rick Westhead, He’s the Ultimate Prize, Toronto Star, Aug. 20, 2005.