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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?
Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, who had been serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado, has had his sentence commuted by Donald Trump. The commutation, initially reported ...
The commutation of Larry Hoover’s federal sentence denigrates the lives of the children lost to the the Gangster Disciples.
Larry Hoover remains incarcerated despite his federal sentences being commuted by Donald Trump. Here's what he did and what happens next.
Larry Hoover, now 74, was the leader of the Chicago-based Gangster Disciples and was convicted in 1997 for running the criminal enterprise ...
Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, who had been serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado, has had his sentence commuted by Donald Trump.
Hoover’s commutation is one of a number granted by Trump, but he is still serving a 200-year state sentence for murder.
President Donald Trump this week commuted the federal life sentence of Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover. Hoover, who was serving six life sentences after his 1997 conviction in federal court ...
Larry Hoover, Former Chicago Gang Leader, Wins Commutation From Trump Mr. Hoover was accused of directing the Gangster Disciples even after he went to prison in the 1970s.
President Trump commutes drug kingpin Larry Hoover’s federal prison sentence Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King ...
The wife of notorious Chicago gang leader and Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover wrote an open letter to Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker asking for her husband's state sentence to be commuted.
Who is Larry Hoover, the cofounder of a notorious Chicago street gang whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump?