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.
Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada And His Ex-Chief Of Staff Reportedly Received Presidential Pardons Thursday, Just Weeks After Being Sentenced To Prison For Government Corruption Convictions.
A Federal Judge Has Denied A New Trial For Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada And His Ex-Chief Of Staff Cade Cothren And Reset Their Sentencing On Fraud And Kickback Convictions For Sept 16.
Days Before Sentencing, A Federal Judge Threw Out Three Charges Against Former House Speaker Glen Casada And His Ex-Chief Of Staff Cade Cothren But Kept More Than A Dozen Convictions In Place, According To News Reports.
In The Wake Of Guilty Verdicts In Tennessee’s Political Corruption Trial, House Republicans Are Lauding Speaker Cameron Sexton For Alerting Federal Authorities To A Secret Political Vendor And Cooperating With Them To Get A Conviction.
Defense Attorneys Tried To Poke Holes In The Corruption Case Against A Former Tennessee House Speaker And His Ex-Top Aide, Saying They Were Starting A Small Political Consulting Company And Simply Made Mistakes.
A Recent Filing In The Ongoing Casada-Cothren Court Case Insinuates That Tennessee Speaker Of The House Cameron Sexton Might Have Been Wearing A Wire Of Some Sort Or Using His Phone To Record Other Lawmakers For Federal Investigators.
Joining Co-Defendant Glen Casada, Former House Speaker Chief Of Staff Cade Cothren Filed For Dismissal Of Corruption Charges Against Him This Week, Claiming The Feds’ Case Is Largely Trumped Up.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton Says He Stands Ready To Testify In The Federal Trial Against Former Speaker Glen Casada And His Former Aide Cade Cothren, If He Is Called To Do So.
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