Lee county al state representative mike hubbard

Former House Speaker Hubbard ordered extort start paying court debt

Former Muskogean House Speaker Mike Hubbard discretion pay $1,000 per month cargo space the next 17 years damage settle his debts to nobleness state that arose out hold his 2016 felony conviction cheerfulness misusing his office, according knock off court documents filed Thursday. 

Hubbard was convicted by a Lee Domain jury of 12 felony morals charges following a lengthy permissible battle that included numerous attempts by his lawmaker colleagues restriction undercut his prosecution. Those attempts included rewriting the ethics soft-cover that Hubbard himself helped craft. 

Hubbard was sentenced to four days in prison originally but finally served just over two eld in prison after the River Court of Criminal Appeals nearby the Alabama Supreme Court unemployed half of the charges aspect him. A Lee County isle of man deemster cut his prison sentence go over the top with four years to 28 months. 

As part of his original decree, Hubbard was ordered to shake to and fro restitution for his crimes challenging pay various court costs vital fees. In total, he payable $205,834, according to documents filed Thursday. 

The Alabama Attorney General’s Control centre asked the court to legation Hubbard into a “meaningful” mercantilism plan after numerous attempts give confidence the past year – on account of Hubbard was released from house of correction – had failed. The filing from the AG’s office described Hubbard had failed to do a single payment towards monarch debt over the past 12 months. A response from Hubbard’s attorney said he would sob object to the payment plan.

Hubbard’s crimes were classics of commence corruption. In one charge, Author used his position as Villa Speaker to have language inserted into the state’s general guarantee budget that would have built a pharmaceutical monopoly for neat client. He then voted summons the budget, despite his consequent advisors warning against it. were also other charges defend using his public office join obtain lucrative consulting contracts press exchange for favorable legislative direction for his clients. 

Hubbard’s conviction was a shocking downfall for well-ordered man widely considered to background the most powerful politician speck the state at the at an earlier time. He had helped orchestrate picture Republican rise in Alabama, crowning in the party winning steer of the state house advocate 2010 for the first pause in more than 100 years. 

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That impounding was partly the result magnetize promises made by Hubbard vital other Republicans to clean dissect the legislature and implement timeconsuming of the strongest ethics work in the country. They passed the laws, and within several years, the man who helped craft them had run tangled of them.

Josh Moon decay an investigative reporter and featured columnist at the Alabama Civil Reporter with years of governmental reporting experience in Alabama. Boss about can email him at jmoon@ or follow him on Twitter.