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Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.
President Trump commuted Larry Hoover's federal sentence after 30 years in supermax prison. The former Chicago gang leader still faces state murder charges.
President Donald Trump commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gang leader who has been serving multiple life sentences for charges including murder, extortion and money laundering.
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of a notorious former Chicago gang leader. Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover was serving a life sentence at a prison in Colorado. He was ...
Larry Hoover Sr founded the Gangster Disciples (GD), one of Chicago's most notorious gangs. He was serving multiple life sentences following a 1998 conviction. His supporters say he is now reformed.
Chicago-born Hoover helmed one of the nation's largest and notorious street gangs, Gangster Disciples, which spread criminal operations to multiple U.S. cities under Hoover's leadership.
Hoover was known as the founder of the Chicago street gang the Gangster Disciples, and had been convicted in 1973 of ordering the murder of William Young, who was abducted and shot to death in the ...
Larry Hoover's family and supporters visited the state capital on Saturday to ask Governor Pritzker for the Chicago gang leader's release.
Hoover, founder of the notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted of running a criminal enterprise in 1998.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago on Monday called imprisoned singer R. Kelly a serial and unrepentant child molester and say ...
Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...
“The last year that Larry Hoover was in control of the gang, before the federal prosecution, there were over 930 murders in the City of Chicago. “And the Gangster Disciples were responsible ...