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 ...

Larry Hoover is the former leader of the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago street gang that spread nationwide. Read about his family, prison, commutation, and more.

Hoover, 74, the co-founder of the Chicago gang Gangster Disciples, was already serving a 200-year sentence on state charges in Illinois for the 1973 murder of 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer ...

Ronald S. Safer, a partner at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila, is a former federal prosecutor who led the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of the Gangster Disciples during the 1990s.

Hoover and David Barksdale created the Gangster Disciples in the late 1960s by merging two street gangs. They ruled as “King Larry” and “King David” until Barksdale was killed in 1974.

Hoover led the Gangster Disciples in Chicago and was convicted in 1976 for the murder of the 19-year-old drug dealer William "Pooky" Young three years prior, according to court documents.

Hoover, founder of the notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted in 1998 of running a criminal enterprise from inside an Illinois prison.