This television series chronicles Chicago's Larry Hoover, the most powerful man in the midwest since Al Capone. From the tender age of 23, while being incarcerated for murder, he built an army of soldiers that dominated the streets and penetrated America's political process. Witness the real life process of how the government went to it's lowest depths to capture and dismantle the most powerful gang in the midwest, the Gangster Disciples. He is the founder of the Gangster Disciples, considered the most powerful street organization in the Mid-West and was declared public enemy #1 by president Clinton's administration. Note: This show will air on a new network called Impersonable in 2010. It's produced by "The Chosen One" Their myspace page is www.myspace.com/Impersonablestudios. You can also find information and other links to their television schedual. Hoover's early gang life // Hoover was born in Jackson, Mississippi on November 30, 1950. He moved to Chicago with his family in 1955. At the age of 16, Hoover joined a gang of 50 older youths called the Supreme Gangsters. They hung around the corner of 68th and Green Street in the impoverished Englewood neighborhood, on the South Side of Chicago where Hoover lived. Hoover was kicked out of high school on the first day of his sophomore year after being shot in the thigh by a rival gang member in 1965. 1967: Hoover Joins the Supreme Gangsters of Chicago // Eventually, Hoover became the leader of the Supreme Gangsters. In 1967 Hoover and his Supreme Gangsters overcame the King Cobras, who outnumbered the Supreme Gangsters, and Hoover caused most of the Cobras to become SGs. Eventually Hoover was able to organize the Gangster Nation, an alliance of sorts, which consisted of several different gangs in the Englewood neighborhood including The Supreme Gangsters (the father/main branch of the 'nation'), Imperial Gangsters, African Sniper Gangsters, Raven Gangsters, High Supreme Gangsters, Russian Gangsters, Maniac Gangsters, Mafia Gangsters, 75th Street Syndicate Gangsters, Outlaw Gangsters, 95th Street Supreme Gangsters, the Dells Gangsters, West Side Supreme Gangsters, Racketeer Gangsters, East Side Syndicate Gangsters, Gent-Town Gangsters, and the Black Pimp Gangsters of the West Side. Operation Headache // In 1995, the government launched Operation Headache with the goal of hurting the group's leadership and crippling their operations. Agents from the FBI, CIA, DEA, the Illinois Department of Corrections, and local police were mobilized for five years. On August 31, 1995, Hoover was arrested at Vienna by federal agents. Thirty-eight other Gangster Disciples were also arrested. The trials were held in three groups; the trial of Hoover's group began on March 19, 1997. Wiretaps of Hoover's conversations that were obtained in prison via a badge worn by his visitors were presented in court. On June 18, 1998, Hoover was sentenced to six life terms, seven terms of 20 years, three four-year terms, and one five-year term under federal mandatory sentencing guidelines, with all sentences running concurrently and in addition to the 150-200-year sentence he received for his 1973 murder conviction. // Hoover is currently serving his sentence at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado. 1973: Larry Hoover sentenced to prison; appointed president of BGDN Television In 1973 Larry Hoover was sentenced to a life sentence on November 5, 1973 for murdering a drug addict. Joshua Shaw was the witness to testify against Hoover who claimed he saw Hoover and Andrew Howard kidnap William Young from 69th and Wentworth, Later Young was found shot dead in an alley way at 6814 S. Lowe on February 26th, 1973. Young was said to have stolen drugs from the BGDN's drug supply because Young was an addict. Howard and Hoover were given 150-200 year sentences each. Then in 1974 David Barksdale died of Kidney failure that was caused by complications from a gunshot wound that Barksdale got in 1969 during a failed attempt to take his life by an 11.9. Afterward a new president needed to be appointed and it was to be between Hoover or Jerome "Shorty" Freeman. // It was decided that Hoover should be the new President. Two years later in 1976, Freeman disbanded from the BGDN to make the Black Disciples a separate organization. Hoover asserts BGD influence while in prison // It was very frustrating for law enforcement when they saw how the BGDs were still functioning full force and making massive profits on the streets and still growing in numbers even with One thing he did was he ordered an inmate riot at Pontiac prison in Illinois. The riot resulted in three dead correctional officers. There was no disciplinary action because all of his GDs refused to testify. // The second great showing of power was when Hoover created the Folk Nation. At this point in time the BGDN was one street gang and not an alliance like it was in the 60s; therefore, Hoover wanted to create a new alliance that would unify several street gangs. Tense relations between Hoover's Folk Nation and Freeman's spinoff Black Disciples // Because of their past relations with the BGDs the Black Disciples joined the Folks Nation, as did the newly formed Black Gangsters that were a break away gang that used to be part of the BGD prior to 1978. The Satan Disciples joined Folk because they were related to the Black Disciples. The Latin Disciples joined because they formed an alliance with the BGDs earlier in the 70s. Then all the gangs that were in the U.L.O (United Latino Organization) with the Latin Disciples joined Folks: Imperial Gangsters, Latin Eagles, and Spanish Cobras. The Spanish Cobras good friends the Orchestra Albanies joined Folks that year because Cobras did. Hoover then offered Simon City Royals a good business proposition if the Royals joined Folks; therefore the Royals joined Folks and they got their closest allies the North Side Insane Popes to join Folks too. Two Six also joined Folks that year. Hoover had absorbed some of Chicago's biggest and fastest growing gangs. In the early 1980s, the Folk nation expanded and took in several other gangs. By this time the BGDs had opened up sets on the North Side of Chicago they even opened up a Latino faction known as the Spanish Gangsters Disciples. Throughout the 1980s Hoover held together the Folk nation while incarcerated behind prison walls as the BGDN recruited more and more members and opened up more and more sets all around Chicago and into the suburbs.