The wheels of justice grind slowly but they grind nonetheless, boy do they grind. And if you are charged with 32 million in fraud and indicate an intention to plead guilty at the first hearing, that is not good news for your old pals:

Radler was the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, and was the deputy chairman and COO of Hollinger International. Kipnis was the top in-house lawyer for Hollinger Inc. and Ravelston Corp. Ltd., the insolvent Canadian company that controlled Conrad Black's global publishing empire.