63-year-old Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. He is the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc. and of the London Daily and Sunday Telegraph, and, with associates, was the controlling shareholder of those newspapers and the Spectator (UK), Chicago Sun-Times, Jerusalem Post, and many other publications. Canadian-born, he gave up his Canadian citizenship to become a member of the British House of Lords in 2001.
The "recent legal travails" refers to the guilty verdict on four charges including mail fraud and obstruction of justice brought against him in July 2007. he was sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment. In 2011 two of the charges were overturned on appeal and he was re-sentenced to 42 months in prison on one count of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. Black was released on 4 May 2012.
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