Despite the incessant adulations heaped upon Chicago US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, he has consistently proven to be a usurper of Constitutional rights and an exceedingly political prosecutor.
Fitzgerald?s prosecution of Black represents a Spitzer-esque attack on private enterprise, using federal code as a dubious blunt instrument of intimidation. In most cases, this intimidation has yielded impressively [...]

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Though most of the trail will revolve around the Government?s mail fraud charges against Black related to non-compete payments, the deadly dagger hanging over the heads of the defense table is the Racketeering charge.
For almost 4 decades now, Federal prosecutors have perverted RICO into a menacing legal beast that subverts our basic freedoms and denies [...]

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The first witness of the prosecution is Gordon Paris, current CEO of Sun Times group (formerly Hollinger Intl), who replaced Black in late 2003.
The cross examination by Ed Greenspan, the most famous lawyer in Canada and longtime consigliere to Lord Black was, to but it mildly, combative.
Amazingly, the former investment banker was ushered into the [...]

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FRAUD – Non-Competes
Thought the alleged perquisite abuses garner more publicity, the non-competes form the largest and most potentially damaging elements of the US Attorney?s case. So persuasive is Genson?s simple yet erudite defense on this point that one must truly ponder the underlying motives of the Government for bringing these scurrilous charges (theses on this [...]

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