Chicago (WLS) – President Donald Trump has commissioned the sentence of a former notorious gang leader in Chicago.
The founder of the Disciples gangster, Larry Hoover, served a perpetuity imprisonment in a Colorado prison. He was found guilty of murder in Chicago and then sentenced later for several federal charges.
Hoover will always have to serve his sentence for state accusations.
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Lawyer Jennifer Bonjean confirmed on Wednesday in ABC7 that her client, Hoover, was granted by the president. The White House also confirmed in ABC News the switching of the federal penalty.
A judge called Hoover one of the most notorious criminals in the history of Illinois. But in recent years, his lawyer has argued that Hoover, now in the mid -1970s, had been rehabilitated.
This argument apparently resonated with President Trump, who commissioned the multiple sentences for the federal life of Hoover.
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Hoover still faces the rest of a 200 -year state for a 1973 Chicago murder. In prison for this murder, the federal prosecutors said that Hoover, one of the founders of the Chicago gangster disciples, continued to supervise this gang.
Prosecutors said he was an organizational genius and had ordered murders, blows and drugs behind bars.
He was sentenced in 1997 and sentenced to six life sentences in the context of these federal accusations, and the former principal prosecutor in his federal affair Ron Safer told ABC7 that he had disappointed Hoover had received from Clemence.
“I believe in redemption. I believe in rehabilitation. I believe in mercy. There are such odious, notorious crimes that they do not deserve mercy,” said Safer.
Hoover still faces the rest of a heavy sentence during a conviction for state murder. He would probably be, at one point, transferred to an Illinois prison of the famous Colorado Supermax prison, where he is currently behind bars.
ABC News contributed to this report.
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