India, May 29 -- Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago.

Hoover, now 74, was serving six life sentences in a federal maximum security prison in Colorado.

The Chicago native co-founded the Gangster Disciples and was already serving a 200-year sentence in Illinois for the 1973 murder of 19-year-old drug dealer William 'Pooky' Young. In 1997, he was convicted again on federal charges, accusing him of continuing to run the gang's criminal operations from behind bars. That led to six additional life sentences.

Trump's commutation will probably affect the federal portion of Hoover's prison time. However, this doesn't mean Hoover is walking fr...