Larry Hoover’s rise and fall Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples by merging two street gangs in the late 1960s. They ruled as “King Larry” and “King David” until ...

To the federal government, Larry Hoover is a 70-year old notorious criminal known as “King Larry’, the head and co-founder of the Black Gangster Disciples Nation that grew out of Chicago ...

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?

Statement from Larry Hoover's attorneys Hoover has been serving a life sentence for a 1970s murder conviction, and an additional life sentence for running a criminal enterprise from behind bars in ...

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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 ...

What to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, ... He was first imprisoned in Illinois for a 1973 murder and convicted decades later in federal court for running a criminal ...

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 ...

📆 Today in History Opinion. ... Larry Hoover, Gangster Disciple leader, appears for for an annual parole hearing on Aug. 31, 1995. ... Hoover’s violent legacy.

President Trump commuted the life sentences of Larry Hoover Sr., “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history,” following an appeal by Ye, aka Kanye West.

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 ...

Hoover ordered the death of a gang member in 1973 and was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to 150 to 200 years in a state prison. But prosecutors say that didn’t stop him from spreading the ...