The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that former speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Glen Casada was sentenced to 36 months of incarceration for honest services wire fraud, money laundering, and using a fictitious name to carry out a fraud, among other crimes. His former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also sentenced to 30 months.

The charges stem from a conspiracy between Casada, Cothren, and former state representative Robin Smith. According to the Justice Department, while the two former representatives were still in office, they leveraged their positions to direct state funds to Cothren’s political consulting firm, Phoenix Solutions. Cothren was fraudulently operating Phoenix Solutions under the name of Matthew Phoenix to conceal his poor reputation.

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