Overview

• The one-page White House order deems Hoover’s federal life sentence served and directs the Bureau of Prisons to release him immediately without further conditions.
• He remains incarcerated under a separate 200-year Illinois murder conviction that Trump cannot overturn.
• Federal authorities had opposed clemency, arguing Hoover continued to influence the Gangster Disciples from prison, while his lawyers say he has reformed.
• The commutation is part of a recent wave of presidential pardons and sentence reductions announced by the White House.
• Advocates including former enforcer Wallace "Gator" Bradley and artists Kanye West and Drake are now urging Governor JB Pritzker to commute Hoover’s state sentence.