The Gangster Disciples co-founder, Larry Hoover, renounces his affiliation with the street gang.
On Wednesday, a federal court reporter tweeted that Hoover had “renewed his bid for a sentencing break.” As a part of his plea, Hoover wrote two letters directed to the judge and the public. In the letters, Hoover renounced his affiliation with the Gangster Disciples.
Hoover explained that he’s “no longer the Larry Hoover people sometimes talk about. Or he who is written about in the papers, or the crime figure described by the government.”
The 71-year-old is also ridiculed because of being a symbol in the streets. Hoover acknowledged he knows “anecdotally that some misguided people” continue to elevate him.
JUST IN: Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover has renewed his bid for a sentencing break in federal court, this time with the help of attorney Jennifer Bonjean. pic.twitter.com/Qsz1968y1m
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“I wish this were not so,” he wrote. “Regardless, these people are apart from me and do what they do with zero encouragement or direction from me […] To be clear, if I had any ability to influence them, I’d ask that they’d forget me and forsake the gang life forever.”
Hoover continued, “I have long since renounced my association with any and all criminal organizations and their membership. I am no longer a member, leader, or even an elder statesman of the Gangster Disciples. I want nothing to do with it now and forever.”
Hoover co-founded the Chicago street gang, the Gangster Disciples, in the late 1960s. He received 200 years behind bars for the 1973 murder of William Young. In 1997, Hoover received another life sentence for conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a criminal enterprise by leading the gang from the prison.
