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Trump pardons Conrad Black for 2007 fraud convictions in U.S.

May 15, 2019 | 7:53 PM

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump.

Black’s media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph of London.

In 2007, Black was convicted of fraud in U.S. District Court in Chicago and spent three and a half years in a Florida prison.