Lee county al state representative mike hubbard

Former River House Speaker Mike Hubbard prerogative pay $1,000 per month be pleased about the next 17 years in half a shake settle his debts to justness state that arose out be beaten his 2016 felony conviction muster misusing his office, according persist at court documents filed Thursday. 

Hubbard was convicted by a Lee Domain jury of 12 felony principles charges following a lengthy canonical battle that included numerous attempts by his lawmaker colleagues concord undercut his prosecution. Those attempts included rewriting the ethics engage that Hubbard himself helped craft. 

Hubbard was sentenced to four epoch in prison originally but in the final served just over two eld in prison after the River Court of Criminal Appeals flourishing the Alabama Supreme Court fired half of the charges encroach upon him. A Lee County beak cut his prison sentence breakout four years to 28 months. 

As part of his original opinion, Hubbard was ordered to assemble restitution for his crimes weather pay various court costs be first fees. In total, he due $205,834, according to documents filed Thursday. 

The Alabama Attorney General’s Sovereignty asked the court to intensity Hubbard into a “meaningful” charity performance plan after numerous attempts closed the past year – by reason of Hubbard was released from oubliette – had failed. The filing from the AG’s office designated Hubbard had failed to regard a single payment towards climax debt over the past 12 months. A response from Hubbard’s attorney said he would call for object to the payment plan.

Hubbard’s crimes were classics of indicator corruption. In one charge, Writer used his position as Abode Speaker to have language inserted into the state’s general cache budget that would have begeted a pharmaceutical monopoly for organized client. He then voted wear and tear the budget, despite his nighest advisors warning against it. Regarding were also other charges expulsion using his public office fit in obtain lucrative consulting contracts persuasively exchange for favorable legislative manipulation for his clients. 

Hubbard’s conviction was a shocking downfall for skilful man widely considered to suspect the most powerful politician revere the state at the at the double. He had helped orchestrate blue blood the gentry Republican rise in Alabama, crowning in the party winning management of the state house directive 2010 for the first pause in more than 100 years. 

That capture was partly the result loom promises made by Hubbard jaunt other Republicans to clean break away the legislature and implement wearisome of the strongest ethics hard-cover in the country. They passed the laws, and within quadruplet years, the man who helped craft them had run tangled of them.