Larry Hoover’s wife asks IL First Lady to advocate for husband’s release

The wife of notorious Chicago gang leader and Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover wrote an open letter to Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker asking for her husband’s state sentence to be commuted.

President Donald Trump commuted Hoover’s federal sentence last week. He had been serving multiple life sentences in federal prison.

The 74-year-old was already serving a 200-year sentence in Illinois on state charges for the 1973 murder of a 19-year-old neighborhood drug dealer William “Pooky” Young…

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