President Donald Trump commuted the federal sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover on Wednesday and issued pardons for others.

Citing an anonymous White House official, NOTUS first reported on the commutation for the 74-year-old Hoover, who was convicted of a 1973 murder in 1997:

Hoover, the co-founder of Chicago gang Gangster Disciples, has been serving multiple life sentences since the 1970s. He has multiple state and federal convictions , including for murder and founding a criminal enterprise. He has made repeated requests to shorten his sentence, including under the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill passed during Trump’s first term.

Hoover and his family members have long maintained that he is no longer affiliated with Gangster Disciples a

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