P resident Donald Trump gave Larry Hoover, the former leader of notorious Chicago-based gang Gangster Disciples, a glimmer of hope this week when he announced the commutation of his federal ...

Why has the president chosen to commute the sentence of a violent Chicago crime lord, particularly when he has consistently expressed an anathema for violent crime?

Larry Hoover gets his six federal life sentences commuted by Donald Trump. Gangster Disciples Founder Larry Hoover has been granted clemency by President Donald Trump for his six federal life ...

Rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, and Drake were among the celebrities who championed Hoover’s early release. West pleaded Hoover’s case to Trump during a bizarre Oval Office meeting in 2018.

We Publish News 24/7. Don’t Miss A Story. *In a significant act of clemency, President Donald Trump has granted a commutation to Larry Hoover, the 74-year-old founder of the Gangster Disciples ...

Larry Hoover, 73, co-founder of the Gangster Disciples, had his prison sentence commuted Wednesday by President Donald Trump. Hoover was serving two life sentences — one for a 1970s murder and ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported ...

Larry Hoover Jr. also made an appearance on Ye’s Donda album, and the former Chicago gang leader was spotlighted on West tracks such as “Jesus Lord” and Vultures 2‘s “River. ...

Hoover’s family celebrated the commutation. “Almost home!” his son Larry Hoover Jr. wrote on Instagram and posted a picture toasting his father.

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 Hoover’s leadership, the gang generated ...