Larry Hoover remains locked up in Illinois, handing Donald Trump an opportunity to one-up his Democratic rivals.

President Donald Trump gave Larry Hoover, the former leader of notorious Chicago-based gang Gangster Disciples, a glimmer of hope this week when he announced the commutation of his federal sentence.

“Larry Hoover’s federal life sentences have been commuted by President Donald Trump,” stated Bonjean Law Group in a release to ABC News.

Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences commuted by Trump on May 28.

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.

While Hoover was granted federal clemency from Trump, he will remain in prison to serve a 200-year state sentence for a 1973 murder in Chicago, unless Gov. JB Pritzker grants him clemency.

President Trump commuted Larry Hoover's federal sentence after 30 years in supermax prison. The former Chicago gang leader still faces state murder charges.

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of ...