President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon. The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal ...

Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover’s federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, sparking widespread discussion and renewed attention to his decades-long incarceration. Hoover ...

Gangster Disciples Founder Larry Hoover has been granted clemency by President Donald Trump for his six federal life sentences. Hoover’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, confirmed the commuted sentence on ...

President Donald Trump commuted Larry Hoover’s multiple life sentences to time served on Wednesday. Actions speak loudly. What does that commutation say? I will try to answer that question as a former ...

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State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ravaged Chicago’s neighborhoods with his creation of the Gangster Disciples.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty President Donald Trump appears to have first heard of gang kingpin ...

The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover said he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort ...

Larry Hoover, a cofounder of a notorious Chicago street gang who was imprisoned in a “supermax” prison for decades, has had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump. Hoover was one of more than ...

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder. The action was one of several announced by the president on May 28, including ...

Larry Hoover, in prison since 1973, faces the parole board with his wife, Winndye Jenkins, at the Dixon Correctional Center on on Feb. 7, 1995, in Dixon, Illinois. John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/Tribune ...

The Gangster Disciples founder speaks publicly for the first time in 25 years. For 23 hours a day, Larry Hoover, the founder of notorious street gang Gangster Disciples, had been sitting in a ...