Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover's quest for freedom faces key test this week But the decision to grant mercy rests with U.S. District Judge John Blakey, nominated to the bench in 2014 by ...

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 ...

Larry Hoover, a convicted murderer and chairman of the Chicago street gang known as Gangster Disciples who is currently serving six life sentences, formed the center of a Los Angeles concert ...

Jennifer Bonjean, an attorney for Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover, speaks to reporters at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If Gangster Disciples co-founder wins freedom from federal term, Illinois prisons don’t want him Larry Hoover is challenging his federal life sentence under the 2018 First Step Act.

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence for infamous Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, abruptly ending Hoover’s yearslong quest to win early release ...

Gangster Disciples Founder Larry Hoover has been granted clemency by President Donald Trump for his six federal life sentences. Hoover’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, confirmed the commuted ...

Larry Hoover, Gangster Disciple leader, appears for for an annual parole hearing on Aug. 31, 1995. A gangster’s possible return. U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber acknowledged the human ...

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 ...