We continue the trial with the opening arguments of the second defendant. Today's theme painted by the defense team of Kipnis stealing millions from Hollinger: Kipnis made an 'honest mistake.'
Mark Kipnis, 60, a former general counsel for Black's Hollinger International, was an outsider unfamiliar with the newspaper business and public companies who "did the best he could with the information he had, given his experience," attorney Ron Safer said.
He's not perfect, perhaps he's negligent," Safer said. But accepting a bonus for one of the noncompete payments in question "was an honest mistake," he added, during the second day of the criminal fraud trial for Black, Kipnis and two other former Black associates. More on the story.
The remaining two defence lawyers delivered their opening arguments today before prosecutors call their first witness, Hollinger International's past CEO Gordon Paris.
2 comments:
millions of dollars honest mistake, yes the people working for those papers will forgive you since they had such poor raises for years
Yup another Enron for Chicago. It is ashame that the taxpayers and the investors suffered by the grred of Black.
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