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The 74-year-old co-founder of the gang Gangster Disciples (alongside David Barksdale) received six federal life sentences in 1998 for continuing to run the gang from prison. He was even given a ...

Ron Safer, a former U.S. attorney in Chicago who helped prosecute members of the Gangster Disciples during the 1990s, said he was shocked and dismayed by Trump's decision to commute Hoover's sentence.

The case of Larry Hoover and the Gangster Disciples Ron Safer, a former U.S. attorney in Chicago who helped prosecute members of the Gangster Disciples during the 1990s, said he was shocked and ...

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the co-founder of the notorious Chicago street gang Gangster Disciples. Hoover was among more than two dozen individuals ...

Hoover was sentenced to 200 years for double murder. “Astonishingly he continued to rule the Gangster Disciples from prison,” court papers report. “Under Hoover’s leadership the gang rose ...

However, Hoover, who founded the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago, will remain in prison for his 1973 conviction in Illinois state court for the murder of 19-year-old drug dealer William ...

This will be an incredible twist about law and order, letting a gang leader like [Hoover] of the Disciples, out of jail,” he said on CNN. But Illinois state Sen. Willie Preston, D-Chicago ...

By the late 1960s, he had taken full control of the gang and rebranded them as the Gangster Disciples. Even in his early twenties, he had established himself as one of the most powerful figures in ...

Hoover was a founder of the Gangster Disciples more than 50 years ago, which remains one of Chicago’s most notorious street gangs. Advertisement Article continues below this ad At its height ...

Notorious gang leader works behind bars Hoover was a founder of the Gangster Disciples more than 50 years ago, which remains one of Chicago’s most notorious street gangs. At its height under ...