Billionaire Leon Black, the man with the Midas touch and a sudden case of judicial amnesia, has done a runner from a deposition related to the late Jeffrey Epstein's vast web of depravity. Black, who presumably has a gold-plated calendar, decided that answering questions about his financial entanglements with a convicted sex trafficker was 'not convenient' and sauntered out of the hearing like a cat who had just eaten a canary and smelled a open window. His lawyers, a phalanx of pinstriped pettifoggers, claimed he had 'a conflicting engagement', which is legal speak for 'he didn't fancy it'.
The judge, clearly not amused by this pantomime, has threatened sanctions, but let's be frank: in America, money talks, and bullshit walks. Black's exit exposes the gaping maw of a judicial process that treats billionaires like VIPs at a nightclub, where the rules are bent to accommodate their delicate sensibilities. The rest of us, meanwhile, are left to gawp at the sheer audacity of a man who thinks he can treat a deposition like a bad lunch.
This is the state of modern justice: a rigged game where the rich abuse the system until it screams. Black's departure is not just a contempt of court, it's a contempt of every person who believes that justice should be blind, not just blinded by wealth.
