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.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder.. The action was one of several announced by the president on May 28 ...

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an apparently fake clemency petition arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker.

Hoover, 74, the co-founder of the Chicago gang Gangster Disciples, was already serving a 200-year sentence on state charges in Illinois for the 1973 murder of 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer ...

Mr. Hoover had already been locked away in Illinois since the mid-70s for the murder of a rival drug dealer when federal prosecutors dragged him back to court in 1997.

Hoover, who was serving six life sentences after his 1997 conviction in federal court, still faces a 200-year state sentence in Illinois. Trump can only commute federal sentences, so it is ...

Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.

Larry Hoover, Robert Crimo III have Illinois prison sentences to serve — but where? It’s not unusual for Illinois to send high-profile prisoners away to serve their time elsewhere.

After receiving federal clemency from Donald Trump, Larry Hoover’s family has turned to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to seek a state commutation for the Gangsters Disciples co-founder.

Larry Hoover, now 74, was the leader of the Chicago-based Gangster Disciples and was convicted in 1997 for running the criminal enterprise ...

Former gang leader Larry Hoover's sentence commuted by President Trump 03:27. The wife of notorious Chicago gang leader and Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover wrote an open letter to Illinois ...