In 1997, Hoover was convicted on federal charges of extortion, federal drug conspiracy and continuing to engage in a criminal enterprise. Hoover has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement at ADX Florence, a maximum security prison in Colorado, according to his lawyers.
The White House has applauded the move.“You can assume, even if we lose tariff cases, we will find another way,” trade adviser Peter Navarro said.
The administration has not made a final decision and it could wait to impose any plans after a federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily reinstated the most sweeping of Trump’s tariffs following a trade court ruling to immediately block them, the report added.The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening that the White House is considering imposing tariffs of 15 percent for 150 days on US trade partners by invoking a little known provision of the 1974 Trade Act, citing people familiar with the matter.The stop gap measure would buy the Trump administration time to draft individual tariff schemes for its trading partners using a separate provision of the same law targeting unfair trade practices, the report said.
The process would be lengthy and complex, but would put the tariffs on a much stronger legal foundation. Discussions are reportedly still underway at the White House, according to the Journal.Wednesday’s surprise ruling
by the US Court of International Trade had threatened to halt or delay Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on most US trading partners, as well as import levies on goods from Canada, Mexico and China related to his accusation that the three countries were facilitating the flow of fentanyl into the US.
The International Court of Trade said tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which is typically used to address issues of national emergencies rather than addressing the national debt, were considered overreach.What crimes has the Gangster Disciples gang been involved in?
According to court documents, Hoover was one of the leaders of the gang between 1970 and 1995. The documents state that under Hoover, the Gangster Disciples sold “great quantities of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs in Chicago”.As of 1995, the gang was believed to have 30,000 members in Chicago and had spread to at least 35 other states, according to an article published by the US Department of Justice that year.
However, little is publicly known about the activities of the Gangster Disciples in recent years.What are the conditions in the ADX Florence prison?