Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard soon to be free from prison

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Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard, who is incarcerated at Limestone Correctional Facility, is nearing the end of his prison sentence for his conviction on ethics charges. alpolitics

He is incarcerated at Limestone Correctional Facility and has a month remaining on his sentence, according to prison system records.

The Republican was one of the state’s most powerful politicians until the ethics conviction ended his political career. Hubbard, the architect of the GOP’s takeover of the Alabama Legislature in 2010, was a legislator from Auburn and former chairman of the state Republican Party. He was elected House speaker soon after Republicans won control.

Prosecutors accused Hubbard of leveraging his powerful public office to obtain clients for his businesses, violating the prohibitions against using his office for personal gain and on giving a “thing of value” to an elected official. At his trial, his defense maintained the contracts were legitimate work and unrelated to his position as House speaker. In upholding the conviction, members of the Alabama Supreme Court noted that when contacting a company for one client, Hubbard “identified himself as a state legislator and as Speaker of the House of Representatives.” They also noted how one company executive wrote in an email that Hubbard could get the company, “in front of any speaker in the country regardless of party.

 

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I bet he'll have some interesting stories to tell his wife and grandkids at get togethers

Will his voting right’s be revoked?

Hecwill offend again… hes the type..

Right wingers probably will try to reelect him

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