TENNESSEE, USA — A former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after being convicted in a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after scandals drove the two out of their top leadership roles.

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville handed down the sentence for former Republican Rep. Glen Casada , a court document shows. Casada’s former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also convicted in the case and received a 2 1/2-year prison sentence last week.

In May a jury found Casada guilty of 17 of 19 charges, and Cothren was found guilty of all 19 counts in a public corruption trial that began in late April.

Earlier this month the judge acquitted the pair of three counts in the case while leaving in pla

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