(UTV|COLOMBO) – US President Donald Trump has signed a full pardon for former media mogul Conrad Black.
Black, 74, was convicted of fraud and obstructing justice in 2007 and jailed for more than three years in the US.
A White House statement described him as an “entrepreneur and scholar”.
Canadian-born Black, who has British nationality, was released from prison in 2012. Last year he published a book entitled Donald J Trump: A President Like No Other.
The British peer once ran a media empire that included the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Jerusalem Post, Foreign media.
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