I speculated earlier today that Hollinger's inside dealings would certainly have affected Richard Perle.

Turns out he was one of the inside dealers;

One transaction that caught the attention of some Hollinger investors was a $2.5 million investment earlier this year in Trireme Partners, a venture-capital company in which Mr. Perle, an independent director, is a managing partner.
Mr. Perle has also played a prominent role in the late 1990’s and early 2000 in directing investments in other companies through Hollinger Digital, Hollinger’s investment arm.
Under review is a $14 million investment the company made under Mr. Perle’s direction through Hillman Capital, a venture-capital group controlled by Gerald Hillman — who has since become a partner at Trireme and is a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, as was Mr. Perle.
The $14 million investment contributed to a fund used by Hillman Capital to acquire — with another private equity group — more than 70 per cent of Cambridge Display Technology, a U.K.-based technology group that holds a patent in light-emitting polymers, in 1999.