The Gangster Disciples co-founder was convicted in 1997 of running a nationwide criminal enterprise from inside prison. Federal prosecutors said Hoover continued to do it direct gang operations ...

Period.” Although the street life is in his past, he said it is behind him. “I’m not a gangster. I’m a rapper for entertainment,” he said. “I’m not a street dude anymore. I’m a man.

Prosecution witnesses were lined up waiting to testify that he was a brutal gangster, who exploited immigrants, cheated on his taxes and ordered gangland murders. Yet at the trial in U.S. District ...

This notorious gangster's trademark look – thick eyebrows, jaunty hat, heavy overcoat and a cigar hanging from his lips – became the basis of the stereotype of the mafia man. he got his start ...