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Latest News: Larry Hoover Gets Commutation from President Trump

President Donald Trump has commuted the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, but the 74-year-old notorious gang leader isn’t leaving prison anytime soon.

The commutation applies to Hoover’s federal conviction in 1997 on 40 criminal counts, including conspiracy, extortion, and drug charges. However, Hoover, who founded the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago, will remain in prison for his 1973 conviction in Illinois state court for the murder of 19-year-old drug dealer William “Pooky” Young. He received a sentence of 150 to 200 years in prison for the killing.

According to his attorneys, Hoover was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility—also know

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