President Trump Commutes Sentence Of Notorious Gang Leader

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President Trump has commuted the sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover.

Hoover, who was the co-founder of the Chicago gang, the Gangster Disciples, has been serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado.

Hoover was imprisoned in 1973 for murder and was later convicted for operating a criminal enterprise in 1998.

Hoover has long disavowed his gang affiliations and has since been an advocate against gang violence.

Per NOTUS:

 

 

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former gang leader from Chicago, according to a White House official.

Hoover, the co-founder of Chicago gang Gangster Disciples, has been serving multiple life sentences since the 1970s. He has multiple state and federal convictions, including for murder and founding a criminal enterprise. He has made repeated requests to shorten his sentence, including under the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill passed during Trump’s first term.

Hoover and his family members have long maintained that he is no longer affiliated with Gangster Disciples and does not maintain any ties to the gang. But every request to amend his sentence has been denied, until now.

Here’s what Newsweek reported:

 

Former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, who had been serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado, has had his sentence commuted by Donald Trump.

The commutation, initially reported by the news outlet NOTUS, was later confirmed by a White House official to The Associated Press who requested anonymity, citing the lack of a formal public announcement.

Hoover was originally imprisoned for a 1973 murder and was later convicted in 1998 for operating a criminal enterprise. In recent years, he renounced his criminal activities and sought a reduced sentence through a formal petition.



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