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on May 16, 2019 in World News

Trump Pardons Conrad Black

by Joel B. Pollak President Donald Trump granted a full pardon Wednesday to former publisher Conrad Black, a Canadian who embraced the U.S., only to find himself the target of what many observers considered a wrongful prosecution and conviction in 2007. In a column celebrating his pardon Wednesday evening, Black recalled that his prosecution was the result of a clerical error, and that the law under which he was convicted was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Black, an admirer of the U.S. and the author of several noted biographies of American presidents, including Richard Nixon and...

by Joel B. Pollak President Donald Trump granted a full pardon Wednesday to former publisher Conrad Black, a Canadian who embraced the U.S., only to find himself the target of what many observers considered a wrongful prosecution and conviction...

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