The board members of Hollinger were a board of thieves?

-SHOMARI HINES Everyday a new door opens in the Conrad Black trial. This time the door that opened has Black's former board members approving the cash Black allegedly stole. Were they a board of thieves or a board bamboozled by its CEO? Then again based on the people who made up the board of directors at the time, they were probably thieves themselves The board of Hollinger International Inc. included such high-profile figures as former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former Illinois governor James Thompson, one-timePentagon official Richard Perle and Richard Burt, once U.S. ambassador to Germany.Black's lawyer, Edward Genson, used a former secretary with the company to produce testimony detailing a series of so-called non-compete payments intended to guarantee that Hollinger would not reenter a market where it sold a media asset. Board knew of Conrad Black's payments, jurors told [Reuters]