Former gang leader Larry Hoover, who attracted support from celebrity rappers, is one of several people who had sentences commuted by Trump on May 28.
State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke says Hoover, 75, took advantage of “misguided public policies and disinvestment” and ravaged Chicago’s neighborhoods with his creation of the Gangster Disciples.
CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago’s most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had ...