Overview

• John G. Rowland pleaded guilty in 2004 to a pay-to-play scheme involving $90,000 in luxury flights and resigned halfway through his third gubernatorial term.
• Rowland served ten months in federal prison followed by several months of house arrest before being released early in 2018.
• Larry Hoover has been held in a Colorado supermax prison under life sentences for a 1973 murder and a later racketeering conviction.
• A White House spokesman confirmed that Kanye West’s 2018 meeting with Trump helped prompt the commutation of Hoover’s sentence.
• Rowland called the pardon a “wonderful final resolution” and expressed deep gratitude to his family, friends and supporters.