Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.

Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences ...

President Trump commuted Larry Hoover's federal sentence after 30 years in supermax prison. The former Chicago gang leader still faces state murder charges.

Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

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 ...

I will try to answer that question as a former assistant U.S. attorney who led the team that investigated and prosecuted the Gangster Disciples’ leaders. Hoover’s supporters note that Hoover ...

Hoover led the Gangster Disciples in Chicago and was convicted ... The government obtained recordings of the gang leader in 1993 by hiding transmitters in badges worn by his visitors.

He was a real leader, and he was trying to lead people in the right direction,” Larry Hoover Jr. told WBEZ last year. On the other hand, nobody can deny what the Gangster Disciples meant in the ...

Trump pardoned NBA YoungBoy, a Louisiana-born rapper, and John Rowland, the former GOP governor of Connecticut.

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 ...

a Chicago gang leader who has been serving multiple life sentences for charges including murder, extortion and money laundering. Hoover led the Gangster Disciples and was convicted in a 1973 ...