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Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green say they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang kingpin. Hoover's clemency petition poses political risks for the governor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three Georgians affiliated with the Gangster Disciples, a gang founded by Larry Hoover, were sentenced last year to federal prison ...

Notorious Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover has had “virtually no contact with the outside world” for more than two decades, his lawyers have said. They say the co-founder of the Gangster Disciples ...

An Atlanta street gang member described by federal agents as a man linked to “monstrous crimes” on Tuesday was ordered to spend the rest of his life in a prison at a sentencing in U.S. District Court ...

Last year in October, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Gang Task Force investigated the Habersham Gangster Disciples street gang members and associates. The gang members were linked to several ...

The prison door seemed to permanently slam shut behind Larry Hoover 26 years ago, and many Chicagoans began to forget about him. Those who remember still compare him to Al Capone, the leader of a ...