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Jul 6, 2021 · Ron Safer remembers the day a judge handed Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover a life sentence in 1998, and the way the federal lock-up “clanged” behind Hoover while Hoover’s family watched from the courtroom. Safer had helped prosecute Hoover, who ran a monolithic street gang from inside an Illinois prison.
Mar 11, 2022 · Hoover, 71 — described by a federal judge last year as “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history” — is serving a life sentence at the federal super-max prison in Colorado, convicted in 1997 of running a criminal enterprise in which authorities said he oversaw a $100 million-a-year drug business with tens of thousands of gang soldi...
Jul 8, 2022 · Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has written to a federal judge asking for his life sentence to be reduced, saying he is no longer the man convicted of murder and running the gang...
Hoover is currently serving six life sentences at the ADX Florence prison facility in Colorado. He was previously sentenced to life imprisonment plus 200 years for a 1973 murder.
Feb 9, 2021 · Hoover was indicted in federal court in Chicago in 1995 on charges he was continuing to run his criminal empire while serving a 200-year sentence in state prison for ordering the murder of a...
Jul 18, 2021 · Recently, U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber denied Hoover’s petition for a reduction, under the federal First Step Act, of the life sentence he was given in 1997 after being convicted of drug charges and running a criminal enterprise. That means Hoover will remain in a supermax prison in Colorado.
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