Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his wife leave the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse in Nashville on Sept. 23, 2025 after Casada was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a corruption scheme. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada once said his goal was to elect a Republican in all 95 House districts. Holding a supermajority wasn’t enough.

More than six years later, Casada is focused instead on staying out of prison after being sentenced to three years for his role in a fraudulent money laundering and kickback scheme involving his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, who was sentenced to two and a half years. The duo ran a secretive consulting firm called Phoenix Solution that tapped into a state-funded mailing p

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