Larry Hoover, 74, denounced his past and has been locked up for more than 50 years. But Trump is hardly the harbinger of ...

Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s, ruling as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.

Larry Hoover Jr. thanked Kanye West for his help getting his dad Larry Hoover's sentence commuted by Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of a Chicago gang leader who was convicted for a 1973 murder. Here's what to ...

Hoover, 74, still faces the remainder of a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of William "Pooky" Young.

Larry Hoover, 22, is shown in a police booking photo in March 1973. (Chicago Police Department) Undeterred, Hoover ran his drug enterprise from state prison over the next two decades.

When an Illinois judge sentenced Larry Hoover to up to 200 years in prison for murder in the 1970s, it was the sort of punishment that seemed destined to end his career as a Chicago gang leader.

Meanwhile, Hoover’s son, Larry Hoover Jr., posted a photo to his Instagram account Wednesday afternoon of someone holding up Trump’s signed order with the words “Almost home!!” and two ...

Larry Hoover will get out of the federal supermax where he was going to die, thanks to Trump. His full story beggars belief. Special Correspondent President Donald Trump appears to have first ...

Larry Hoover has been locked behind bars since the ‘70s, and despite Trump’s clemency agreement, he won’t be getting out anytime soon. Suggested Reading .

Larry Hoover, also known as “King Larry,” was born on November 30, 1950, in Jackson, Mississippi. His parents moved the family north to Chicago when Hoover was 4 years old.

Hoover’s federal sentence commutation is one of a number granted by Trump, but the former gang leader is still serving a 200-year state sentence for murder. Larry Hoover [Courtesy: Creative Commons] ...