{"id":2440461,"date":"2025-05-29T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-commutes-sentence-of-former-gang-leader-larry-hoover-as-he-grants-clemency-to-dozens-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:59:01","slug":"trump-commutes-sentence-of-former-gang-leader-larry-hoover-as-he-grants-clemency-to-dozens-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-commutes-sentence-of-former-gang-leader-larry-hoover-as-he-grants-clemency-to-dozens-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump commutes sentence of former gang leader Larry Hoover as he grants clemency to dozens &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-commutes-sentence-of-former-gang-leader-larry-hoover-as-he-grants-clemency-to-dozens-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2440461&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover,a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ms-13-member-pleads-guilty-to-brutal-murder-in-maryland\/\" title=\"MS...13 Member Pleads Guilty To Brutal Murder in Maryland\">gang leader<\/a>,as part of a larger clemency initiative that affected over two dozen convicts. Among those whose sentences were commuted are the rapper NBA YoungBoy, a U.S. Army officer, and former political figures Michael Grimm and John Rowland. Hoover,who was serving a life sentence for a series of violent crimes and was implicated in continuing gang operations while incarcerated,surprised manny by being included in the clemency list. Some speculate Trump&#8217;s decision may have been influenced by rapper Kanye West, a noted advocate for Hoover&#8217;s release. Despite the commutation, Hoover will remain in prison due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >separate life sentence resulting<\/a> from state charges. Hoover&#8217;s attorney and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mother-of-unvaccinated-girl-denied-kidney-transplant-by-duke-shares-huge-update\/\" title=\"Unvaccinated girl&#039;s mother denied kidney transplant by Duke gives update.\">family expressed gratitude<\/a>, highlighting Hoover&#8217;s personal transformation during his time in solitary confinement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump commutes sentence of former gang leader Larry Hoover as he grants clemency to dozens<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2134396\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"clemency effort\">Donald Trump<\/a> commuted the sentence of former gang leader Larry Hoover on Wednesday as part of a wider <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"clemency effort\">clemency effort<\/a> involving over two dozen convicts.<\/p>\n<p>Other people who had their sentences commuted include rapper NBA YoungBoy, sentenced over his involvement in a 2019 fatal shootout outside the Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, a U.S. Army officer who refused to follow COVID-19 protocols, former New York Rep. Michael Grimm, who was imprisoned for tax fraud, and former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, who was convicted on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3425235\/texas-house-democrats-block-bail-reform-measures\/\">Texas House Democrats block bail reform measures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3424104\/andrew-tristan-tate-brothers-charges-uk-rape\/\">Andrew Tate and brother Tristan face slew of charges in UK including rape<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3424265\/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-ramon-morales-reyes-threatened-assassinate-trump-rally\/\">ICE arrests illegal immigrant who threatened to assassinate Trump at rally<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A White House official confirmed the pardons to the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner,<\/em>&nbsp;noting that the Department of Justice will post the full list on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover&rsquo;s commutation took many by surprise. Former federal prosecutor Ron Safer, who led the prosecution of Hoover&rsquo;s gang, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/the-watchdogs\/2025\/05\/28\/president-trump-drug-kingpin-larry-hoover-commutation-federal-prison-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> he did not &ldquo;understand why Hoover, among all of the people in federal custody, is worthy of this result.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In a state that spawned Al Capone, I do not believe that there&rsquo;s a more notorious or prolific criminal than Larry Hoover,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of the Chicago gang, Gangster Disciples, was serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and murder of a rival drug dealer when a 17-year investigation by authorities found he was still running the 30,000-member gang from prison, with operations in 35 different states. In 1997, he was found guilty of 40 crimes, including conspiracy,&nbsp;extortion, money laundering, and continuing a criminal enterprise. The latter conviction came after his attempted rebrand as someone who turned away from a life of crime.<\/p>\n<p>Since his most recent conviction, Hoover has been serving a life sentence at the maximum-security ADX Florence prison facility in Colorado. The prison houses some of the U.S.&rsquo;s worst criminals, including an al Qaeda co-founder, September 11 terrorist attack conspirators, the organizer of the 2011 Benghazi attacks, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, and Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin &ldquo;El Chapo&rdquo; Guzman. Ted Kaczynski, better known as the &ldquo;Unabomber,&rdquo; and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh were housed in the facility until their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Some have suggested that Trump pardoned Hoover due to pleas from rapper Kanye West, a longtime advocate of Hoover&rsquo;s liberation. He pleaded for the president to release the crime boss during an October 2018 Oval Office meeting, hailing him as a &ldquo;living statue&rdquo; and &ldquo;an example of a man that was turning his life around.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump wasn&rsquo;t aware of who Hoover was at the time, asking, &ldquo;What did he do?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>West emerged as a major supporter of Trump during his first term, a kinship that lasted until he brought neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago for dinner with the then-former president. The musician&rsquo;s recent erraticism and proclamations of love for Adolf Hitler appear to have severed ties between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover attorney Justin Moore celebrated his client&rsquo;s commutation in a text to the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Larry Hoover spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement under the harshest conditions this country has to offer,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And yet, he emerged with clarity, humility, and a commitment to peace and transformation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3424418\/former-congressman-michael-grimm-pardon-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"DONALD TRUMP PARDONS FORMER NYC CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL GRIMM\">DONALD TRUMP PARDONS FORMER NYC CONGRESSMAN MICHAEL GRIMM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoover&rsquo;s son, Larry Hoover Jr., also celebrated, posting on Instagram, &ldquo;Almost home!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, the crime boss will not go free. While his federal sentence was commuted, he still must serve a life sentence on state charges for the murder of the rival drug dealer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2134396\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2134396\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump commutes Larry Hoover&#8217;s sentence amid clemency for many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2440462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25107756399456.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22725,56144,3634],"class_list":["post-2440461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clemency","tag-larry-hoover","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AP25107756399456.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440465,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440461\/revisions\/2440465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}