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)

Six years after being bounced from the Tennessee House speakership, former Rep. Glen Casada was sentenced Tuesday to 36 months in prison for his role in a kickback scheme.

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson meted out the punishment to Casada on 14 counts of fraud, bribery, theft, conspiracy and money laundering in connection with a shell company called Phoenix Solutions run by his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, who was sentenced to 30 months last week.

Casada also must pay a $30,000 fine and remain on probation for one year once he

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