Looks like he was a Canadian citizen and renounced that citizenship in 2001 to become a resident of the UK, although he was deported back to Canada after he was let out of jail in 2012.
They also noted that Henry Kissinger, Sir Elton John, Rush Limbaugh, and the late William F. Buckley Jr. vigorously vouched for his character.
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