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?

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 ...

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CHICAGO — A day after President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the ...

Hoover’s many previous attempts for a sentence reduction or parole have been swiftly rejected, including a federal judge denying Hoover’s request for a lower sentence in 2021.

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.

Hoover’s commutation is credited to Alice Johnson, President Trump’s pardon czar. His son, Larry Hoover Jr., posted a picture of Johnson holding the presidential order signed by Trump.

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

One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders is among President Donald Trump’s most recent presidential commutations. The puzzling move raised questions about whether Larry Hoover will be freed.

The push to grant Hoover clemency has been decades in the making. President Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, as part of a series of ...