Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge in 2012, the case was described as a "$2.5-million suit" and Bower said, "How can a convicted fraudster find a jury who will say that his reputation has been damaged by a book that says he's a fraudster?" A passing reference in the book to the British businessman, pornographer, and publisher Richard Desmond led to Desmond unsuccessfully suing Bower for libel in 2009. Desmond argued that the description in the book that he was "ground into the dust" when he had published an apology after Black had threatened to sue for libel had weakened his reputation. Notes References Conrad and
Cynthia Bower said by Grant Thornton to be present at a meeting where deletion of a critical report was allegedly discussed. Bower and Jefferson immediately denied being involved in a cover-up. In a later interview with "The Independent", Bower accused the CQC of commissioning the Grant Thornton report that was neither fair nor reasonable and “against natural justice”, but admitted that the CQC inspection whilst she was CEO had failed to uncover failings at Morecambe Bay trust: ""We should have registered it with conditions."" Cynthia Bower Cynthia Bower (born 6 July 1955) is a former manager in the National Health Service, and