President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the life prison sentence of Larry Hoover , the notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang, the White House confirmed.

The White House did not share details of the commutation, but Hoover attorney Justin Moore said Trump commuted Hoover’s sentence to time served. He still faces essentially life in prison on a state murder conviction.

“We did what so many said was impossible,” Moore told the Sun-Times by text message. “We got Larry Hoover out of federal prison.”

Moore also wrote that “the federal government has done its part. Now it’s time for the State of Illinois to finish the job.”

Hoover still has a state-court murder sentence to serve, and Illinois prison officials have previously said he’d likely serve it in the federal s

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