Why has the president chosen to commute the sentence of a violent Chicago crime lord, particularly when he has consistently expressed an anathema for violent crime?

Larry Hoover remains imprisoned under a state murder conviction despite the commutation of his federal sentences by President Donald Trump. Chicago Sun-Times/AP Photo ...

P resident Donald Trump gave Larry Hoover, the former leader of notorious Chicago-based gang Gangster Disciples, a glimmer of hope this week when he announced the commutation of his federal ...

Hoover’s federal sentence commutation is one of a number granted by Trump, but the former gang leader is still serving a 200-year state sentence for murder. Larry Hoover [Courtesy: Creative Commons] ...

When an Illinois judge sentenced Larry Hoover to up to 200 years in prison for murder in the 1970s, it was the sort of punishment that seemed destined to end his career as a Chicago gang leader.

Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover’s path to a commutation ran through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort The path went through California, Mississippi and Florida before ending Wednesday with Trump ...

Larry Hoover took a big step toward freedom Wednesday. But he’s not a free man. That’s even after President Donald Trump commuted the life prison sentence of the 74-year-old co-founder of the ...

United States President Donald Trump commuted the federal drugs-and-extortion sentence of former Chicago gang leader, Larry Hoover, on Wednesday. Hoover has been serving multiple life sentences ...

Donald Trump has granted clemency to Larry Hoover, the founder of the Gangster Disciples, for his federal life sentence, and Hoover will be transferred from Colorado to an Illinois prison soon.

Larry Hoover's Charges: What Did He Do? Larry Hoover was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1950 and moved to Chicago as a child. In his early teens, he joined a gang called the Supreme Gangsters.