Prosecutors Dispute Leak Allegation in Hubbard Ethics Case

State prosecutors are firing back at House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s claims of misconduct in his ethics case, calling them “a desperate last minute attempt to avoid a trial.”

Prosecutors filed a response Thursday to the defense accusation that a political consultant had dozens of conservations with lead prosecutor matt Hart.

Baron Coleman wrote in defense affidavit that he used the information for a ‘whisper campaign” to damage Hubbard politically during the 2014 election.

Prosecutors did not dispute conversations happened but said that Coleman was a confidential informant and prosecutors were trying to obtain information from him. Prosecutors also quoted Coleman’s previous statements that he had gotten “no leaks” about the case.

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Spencer Collier, in an accompanying affidavit, said the agency was not investigating Hart.

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