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Imprisoned Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, who says he’s no longer involved with the gang and is asking for an early release from his life sentence, promoted two men to top posts in the gang while locked up in a federal “super-max” prison in Colorado, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in East St. Louis.
The indictment says the two men threatened to kill anyone who challenged their authority and, on May 18, 2018, shot and killed a rival Gangster Disciples board member on the South Side of Chicago.
Hoover who prosecutors have called “the most notorious gang leader in Chicago’s modern history” isn’t charged in the indictment, which targets leaders of the Gangster Disciples in downstate Illinois and eastern Missouri in a racketeering case that includes two murders.
Registered sex offender heads to prison after distributing child pornography
Daniel Ellsworth Janssen pleaded guilty October 22, 2020
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS â A local man is headed to federal prison after he admitted to sending photos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office.
Daniel Ellsworth Janssen, 28, pleaded guilty October 22, 2020.
On Monday, January 25, 2021, U.S. District Judge David S. Morales sentenced him to 17-years in federal prison.
At the hearing, the court heard that Janssen had been on probation for attempted indecency with a child when he was arrested for this federal crime.
DETROIT — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served about seven years of a 28-year sentence for corruption.The announcement Wednesday was part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump s White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of Trump and his family.A White House statement said that prominent members of the Detroit
Jan 21, 2021
DETROIT (AP) President Donald Trump on Wednesday cleared the way for the release of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has served more than seven years of a 28-year prison sentence for a series of corruption crimes.
The announcement came in a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump’s White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rappers, former members of Congress and other Trump allies.
The White House said prominent members of the Detroit community had supported the 50-year-old Democrat’s commutation and noted: “During his incarceration, Mr. Kilpatrick has taught public speaking classes and has led Bible Study groups with his fellow inmates.”