President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a full pardon for Conrad Black, a former media mogul who was convicted of obstruction of justice and fraud in 2007.

Black, 74, once owned one of the world’s largest English-language newspaper empires, Hollinger International, but was charged with stealing millions from investors. He was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in 2007 on multiple fraud charges and one charge of obstruction after a judge said his crimes amounted to “very serious acts.” Two of the fraud charges were later overturned, but Black still served 3.5 years in prison.

He was released in 2012 and deported to Canada, where he now lives.

Black wrote in a statement that Trump “could not have been more gracious and quickly got to his point, that he was granting me a full pardon, that would ‘Expunge the bad wrap [sic] you got,’” Canada’s CTV reported.

The businessman has spent the past few years lavishing praise on Trump and even wrote a book about the president, calling him a leader “like no other.” He also regularlywrites editorials lauding Trump and tearing down his political enemies.