Tina Sfondeles
Chief Political Reporter at Chicago Sun-Times
chief political reporter @suntimes (again); past: White House reporter @politico; politics correspondent @insider; [email protected] 🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇱
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1 week ago |
wbez.org | Frank Main |Tina Sfondeles |Jon Seidel
The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover said he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort where he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. It was among a series of high-profile meetings between Hoover’s lawyers and Trump and his top aides since 2018. On Wednesday, their years-long advocacy paid off with Trump commuting Hoover’s federal sentence of life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Frank Main |Tina Sfondeles
The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover says he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort where he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. It was among a series of high-profile meetings between Hoover’s lawyers and Trump and his top aides since 2018. On Wednesday, their years-long advocacy paid off with Trump commuting Hoover’s federal sentence of life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Jon Seidel |Tina Sfondeles |Frank Main
President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the life prison sentence of Larry Hoover, the notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang, the White House confirmed. The White House did not share details of the commutation, but Hoover attorney Justin Moore said Trump commuted Hoover’s sentence to time served. He still faces essentially life in prison on a state murder conviction. “We did what so many said was impossible,” Hoover told the Sun-Times by text message.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Tina Sfondeles
Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday embarked on a six-day trip to Taiwan and Singapore, where she hopes to “close the deal” on a partnership with Foxconn’s research arm at Chicago’s new quantum algorithm center. Duckworth is on her 13th Congressional Member Delegation (or CODEL) trip since 2018 — and this trip marks her 11th trip to Asia.
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wbez.org | Tina Sfondeles
To Attorney General Kwame Raoul, the legal war against President Donald Trump is personal. Raoul is a Chicago native born to Haitian immigrants, making him a self-described “birthright baby.” He’s also a prostate cancer survivor who lost his father to the disease and now is watching Trump slash the federal budget and lay off staffers at the National Institutes of Health, one of the largest funders of cancer research.
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