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.
He was convicted of fraud in 2007 and spent three and a half years in prison.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says Black ``has made tremendous contributions to business, and to political and historical thought.''
In 2018 he published ``Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other.''
Trump has also pardoned Patrick Nolan, a former Republican leader of the California State Assembly.
Nolan has been a vocal advocate for criminal justice reform since he spent more than two years in federal prison during the 1990s.