Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, photographed here in 1994, has drawn comparisons to Al Capone for his notoriety. Sun-Times file Criminal Justice Public Safety ...

Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s first court appearance in decades may have been via video link from a prison more than a thousand miles from Chicago, but the judge’s ...

Hoover was not accused of wrongdoing but the indictment claimed that back in September 2014, two Gangster Disciples members discussed how the founder had recently appointed them as "board members ...

CHICAGO — Infamous Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover’s first court appearance in decades may have been via video link from a prison more than a thousand miles from Chicago, but ...

Lawyers representing Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover filed a motion Friday asking the judge overseeing Hoover's request for release from a life sentence to recuse himself due to his ...

Larry Hoover, the famed founder of the Gangster Disciples, had his life sentence commuted Wednesday by President Trump. Though Trump used his power to clear 74-year-old Hoover of federal charges ...

U.S. District Judge John Blakey directed his question to Hoover’s defense attorney, who had just argued that the Gangster Disciples street gang is now a “splintered, disorganized group with no ...

If ex-Gangster Disciples boss Larry Hoover qualified, he should have gotten sentencing break The storied Chicago gang chief isn’t responsible for today’s violence. But treating him fairly ...

Larry Hoover, co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang, won’t be allowed to serve his state murder sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections prison system if he succeeds at ...

Trump has ended Larry Hoover’s six federal life sentences, yet the onetime Gangster Disciples boss remains locked up in Illinois.

CHICAGO — Lawyers representing Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover filed a motion Friday asking the judge overseeing Hoover’s request for release from a life sentence to recuse himself ...