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One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders is among President Donald Trump’s most recent presidential commutations.
Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.
Mr. Hoover was accused of directing the Gangster Disciples even after he went to prison in the 1970s. The federal commutation ...
President Trump commuted Larry Hoover's federal sentence after 30 years in supermax prison. The former Chicago gang leader ...
President Trump on Wednesday commuted a federal sentence for Larry Hoover, who is credited for founding the Gangster ...
Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences commuted by Trump on May 28.
Larry Hoover, once declared “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history,” had his life sentence commuted by ...
Hoover was among 39 Gangster Disciples leaders indicted in August 1995 in Operation Headache, a six-year effort by the feds to infiltrate Gangster Disciples. Federal prosecutors had accused him of ...
It is unclear why Trump pardoned Hoover, but his liberation has been championed by prominent rappers Kanye West and Aubrey ...
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence at a ...
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder. Here's what to know.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- 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 ...