...and "journalist" Tom Bower is directly implicated:
David Radler, the star witness in the U.S. government's criminal fraud case against Conrad Black and three former Hollinger International Inc. executives, met privately with the former press baron's controversial biographer every day before he testified at the trial, according to an unpublished manuscript.
Some legal observers have expressed concerns at the optics of a situation where a witness is in position to discuss a case with a journalist while giving testimony.
"Every morning before Radler testified, they would meet at the swimming pool of the Peninsula Hotel, where Radler was staying, and speak together about the case," writes Canadian criminal lawyer Steven Skurka in an upcoming book about the 16-week criminal trial.
The lengthy article by Post writer Theresa Tedesco hints, via comments from various ex-prosecutors and lawyers, that this behaviour may have been not exactly above-board. Expect to hear a lot more of it as we approach the appeal.
