Former House Speaker Glen Casada, accompanied by his wife and at right, attorney Ed Yarbrough, leaves the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse in Nashville after a jury convicted him in a federal corruption case. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Despite spending six years investigating and prosecuting former House Speaker Glen Casada and his ex-chief of staff on corruption charges, the U.S. Department of Justice requested their convictions and prison orders be vacated after they received a presidential pardon.

Under Acting U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire, the federal government filed motions in U.S. District Court to vacate a 30-month sentence against Cade Cothren and a 36-month sentence for Casada when President Donald Trump granted them pardons Nov. 7.

The move by prosecutors to

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