Overview

• Trump’s May 28 order wiped out Hoover’s six life terms on federal charges of running the Gangster Disciples from prison.
• Hoover still must serve a 150-to-200 year state sentence for a 1973 Chicago murder conviction.
• Federal prosecutors had opposed clemency, arguing he continued to direct gang operations through coded communications behind bars.
• Prison officials say Hoover will move from the ADX Florence supermax in Colorado to an Illinois state facility to resume his sentence.
• Supporters including Kanye West and Drake held a 2021 benefit concert and lobbied Trump, with West publicly thanking him for the commutation.