Trump pardons Conrad Black after his fawning biography
The media tycoon who wrote Donald J Trump: A President Like No Other was convicted of mail fraud and obstruction of justice
Washington — US President Donald Trump has pardoned former media tycoon Conrad Black, formally forgiving the Hollinger International founder of a conviction for mail fraud and obstruction of justice. Black, 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. In 2018, he published a book, Donald J Trump: A President Like No Other. In a column in Canada’s National Post, Black said Trump himself gave him the good news in a phone call. “When my assistant said there was a call from the White House, I picked up, said ‘Hello’ and started to ask if this was a prank, (suspecting my friends in the British tabloid media),” Black wrote. He said that Trump got on the line saying, “Is that the great Lord Black?” Black became a member of th...
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