President Donald Trump pardoned former media tycoon Conrad Black May 15, formally forgiving the Hollinger International Inc. founder of a conviction for mail fraud and obstruction of justice.
Black, 74, who served three and a half years in prison after a federal jury found that he illegally diverted money that belonged to stockholders to himself, founded a company that at one time owned some of the world’s most best-known newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post.
Last year, he published a book called “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.”
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