News from the WaPo (has been in the cycle for some time but I haven't seen it here at dKos)
Report Details 'Kleptocracy' at Newspaper Firm
Press tycoon Conrad M. Black and other top Hollinger International Inc. officials pocketed more than $400 million in company money over seven years and Black's handpicked board of directors passively approved many of the transactions, a company investigation concluded.
A report by a special board committee singled out director Richard N. Perle, a former Defense Department official, who received $5.4 million in bonuses and compensation. The report said Perle should return the money to the Chicago company.
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It would appear that Mr. Perle is indeed part of Mr. Bush's "base."
[Update] - Additional Stories
It doesn't take much to find more on this:
The Guardian:
Only Richard Perle, a former US defence adviser closely associated with the Bush administration, was accused of enriching himself at the expense of the company. As the former chairman and chief executive of Hollinger Digital, Mr Perle received more than $3m in bonuses on top of his salary.
He breached his fiduciary duties by signing unanimous consents without reading the documents; several apparently authorised the controversial transactions. The report said he should return all money he earned while at the company.
International Herald Tribune:
"It is difficult to imagine a more flagrant abdication of duty than a director rubber-stamping transactions that directly benefit a controlling shareholder without any thought, comprehension or analysis," the committee report said. "In fact, many of the consents that Perle signed as an executive committee member approved related-party transactions that unfairly benefited Black and Radler, and cost Hollinger millions."
Conspiracy Planet:
He’s been at it quite a long time, and it’s the way policy and money interact and overlap that is crucial to understanding the connections. And Perle is well connected to people like William Safire at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, William Kristal’s right-wing rag, all anxious to peddle Perle's poisonous view of the world.