*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, a notorious Chicago-based gang. Hoover’s legal ...

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 question still ...

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 “vaguely ...

State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ...

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 on Wednesday commuted the federal sentence for Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader who is serving a life sentence in a supermax prison in Colorado — most of which has ...

The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...

CHICAGO — Founder of the Gangster Disciples, Larry Hoover, was in court Thursday, testifying via video feed from a supermax prison in Colorado hoping to qualify for an early release program that would ...

Larry Hoover's family is seeking state clemency to help the Gangster Disciples co-founder secure his freedom for the first time in over 50 years. After receiving federal clemency from Donald Trump, ...

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