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First Week of Mike Hubbard’s Ethics Trial Concludes

Prosecutors are nearing the end of the first week of testimony in their ethics case against Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. The attorney general’s office plans to call a number of witnesses related to Hubbard’s consulting contract with a gas utility in southeast Alabama. Hubbard is accused of using his position as speaker to lobby the governor and others on…

Update: State Officials Testify on Hubbard’s Role in 2013 Budget

Testimony is continuing in the ethics trial of the Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. A state legislator and others are expected to testify Thursday about Hubbard’s role in 2013 budget language that could have benefited a pharmacy cooperative that was paying Hubbard. Hubbard’s former chief of staff testified Wednesday that Hubbard didn’t tell him about two consulting contracts and that…