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Peter Rehak is a Canadian journalist who has worked in North America and Europe in print, television and new media. For 18 years he was an Executive Producer of CTV Television Network’s investigative program W5. During Rehak’s term the network aired an episode about Imre Finta (1912-2003), accusing him of committing war crimes against Hungarian Jews during the Second World War when he was a police captain in the Royal Hungarian gendarmerie. Finta sued the network for slander. In crafting their defense, CTV lawyers and Rehak traveled in 1985 to Hungary, Israel and Vienna, recording witness testimonies. Finta had immigrated to Canada in 1951, becoming a successful restauranteur in downtown Toronto. He was the first and only person in Canada to be prosecuted for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, charged with confinement, kidnapping, robbery, and manslaughter of 8, 617 Jews. After a lengthy criminal trial in the Ontario Supreme Court, a jury acquitted Finta on all counts. The acquittal was upheld by the Ontario Supreme Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Rehak collected materials relating to Finta intending to write a book but abandoned the project when Finta was acquitted.