Mark Steyn is blogging the Caorad Balck trial and it is quite good:

...speaking of Hollinger, how come their sale of Le Soleil, Le Lac St-Jean and the other French-language titles isn't being cited by the prosecutors in this case? If it was a cleaner deal than all these other ones, then why was that? Could it be because it had nothing to do with David Radler?

As is this:

But in fact there is, at least implicitly, another signature on those contracts: that of the United States Government. The agreement that prosecutors now say was a fraud scheme to transfer money to Black, Radler, and co was, in fact, sent off to federal trade regulators for government approval in relation to anti-trust law. So, in a technical sense, these non-competes that Mr Reed and the government now disavow, were approved by both of them.

 

I trust the prosecution is keeping its heavy guns in reserve, because these first witnesses have been very unimpressive.