It seems we can’t win them all. On Wednesday, May 28. 2025, the Chicago Tribune published this disturbing headline, “Trump commutes federal life sentence of founding Gangster Disciples kingpin Larry Hoover.”
President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence for infamous Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, abruptly ending Hoover’s yearslong quest to win early release under the First Step Act passed during Trump’s first term.
The two-page order said Hoover’s sentence was considered served “with no further fines, restitution, probation or other conditions,” and directed the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to release him “immediately,” according to a copy of the document provided by Hoover’s legal team.
The controversial move — part of a slew of clemency actions announced by the White House this week — appeared to have already sparked Hoover’s transfer out of the supermax prison compound in Florence, Colorado, that he’d called home for the past two decades.
But Hoover isn’t going free — he’s still serving a 200-year sentence for his state court conviction for murder. Officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections have previously said they would push for Hoover to finish his state sentence in federal prison due to security concerns.
On Wednesday afternoon, Hoover was listed in online state prison records as an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center in western Illinois, though it was unclear if he’d already made it there. The records show a parole date of October 2062.
In a statement to the Tribune, Hoover’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, called Trump’s decision “a historic development” after years of fighting in federal court.
“While this thug isn’t going free, this move is disturbing.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, centrally based in Harrison, Arkansas, with dedicated Klansmen and Klanwomen throughout the United States. “Now we all know that President Trump isn’t the savior of America, but I do like a lot of his policies, but this one I don’t support. Lately, there has been talk of Trump giving Derick Chauvin, the police officer blamed for the fatal overdose of George Floyd. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota came out saying that he was preparing for massive riots if this pardon went through. Trump claimed he had not heard any talk about this, but he then knew Elon Musk had brought this idea to light. As in this case, Derick Chauvin wouldn’t had gone free either because he also has a federal sentence to complete, but by President Trump giving a pardon to this thug, this just gives blacks in America more of a boost in their ideology that they can do know wrong. This thug isn’t going free, but it’s a ‘high-five’ to America’s black population, which could become very dangerous as it makes it look like Trump sided with blacks over not giving a pardon to Officer Chauvin, but instead, giving it to a black thug. I don’t stand behind Trump’s decision on this one.”
