What in the holy heck? Trump pardoned a huge gang leader and frankly, gangs are the scourge of our state and our nation. At the same time, it seems kind of compassionate. He had been in prison for better than 50 years.
As an added bonus, there is a 200-year state sentence for murder that ol’ Larry will have to serve in Illinois prison. It’ll be up to JB Pritzker to offer clemency. Or not. This puts ol’ Tubby into a bit of a Catch-22. Will he have more compassion than Donald Trump or will JB look like he’s soft on crime?
WGN has the story of Larry Hoover, the rather famous godfather of a Chicago gang, had his sentence commuted today…
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, a former Chicago gang leader serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Colorado.
The commutation, first reported by the news website NOTUS, was confirmed by a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity because it had not been formally announced.
Hoover was imprisoned in connection with a murder in 1973, and he was convicted of running a criminal enterprise in 1998. He later renounced his criminal past and petitioned for a reduced sentence…
Ron Safer was the lead prosecutor in Hoover’s federal case. He says from behind bars, Hoover led 30,000 members across 28 states, selling $100 million in drugs every year in Illinois alone.
“There are crimes that are so heinous that they are not entitled to mercy, and his are among those,” Safer said. “The last year that Larry Hoover was in control of the gang, before the federal prosecution, there were over 930 murders in the city of Chicago. And the Gangster Disciples were responsible for more than half of those. The scope of their control over the streets of the city of Chicago, over the Illinois Department of Corrections, and the breadth of the criminal enterprise is really mind-boggling.”
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