It Was ‘Big Meech,’ Now It’s ‘Larry Hoover’: Gangster Disciples Founder’ Federal Life Sentence Commuted By Trump Larry Hoover gets his six federal life sentences commuted by Donald Trump.

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 ...

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.

PHOTO: Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, attends an annual parole hearing on Aug. 31, 1995, at Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, Illinois.

Hoover, 74, the founder of the Gangster Disciples, has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement at ADX Florence in Colorado, widely considered one of the most secure prisons in the world.

CHICAGO — Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported ...

Larry Hoover’s federal sentence commuted, but he’s not free Chicago Gangster Disciples founder still has to serve 200-year state sentence, which President Trump is powerless to overturn ...

Hoover, the founder of Chicago's notorious Gangster Disciples, was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted of running a criminal enterprise in 1998.

Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, attends an annual parole hearing on Aug. 31, 1995, at Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, Illinois. (John Dziekan/Chicago Tribune/TNS) ...

Trump has ended Larry Hoover’s six federal life sentences, yet the onetime Gangster Disciples boss remains locked up in Illinois.