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Mike Hubbard: Prisoner No. 1

Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard is now the state's most famous inmate, and as prisoner No. 1, he deserves no more and no less than to serve his time in a state correctional facility.
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September 8, 2020

Auburn quietly renames building honoring Mike Hubbard

Quietly and without notice, Auburn University renamed the building on its campus named in honor of convicted felon and former Republican Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard four years after a jury found him guilty of criminal violations of the state’s ethics code. The notification came to APR a day after it published a column … Continued
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September 3, 2020

Denied: Mike Hubbard has 15 days to report to prison

Mike Hubbard is going to prison. The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday announced it had officially denied the former House speaker’s request for a rehearing — a decision that surprised only in the fact that it took five months to be issued — and the Alabama Attorney General’s Office said Hubbard now has 15 days … Continued
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August 28, 2020

Is Mike Hubbard ever actually going to prison?

The wheels of justice turn slowly, or barely at all if your name is Mike Hubbard. Now more than 50 months since he was convicted of a dozen felonies, and nearly two years since the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld all but one of those charges, and four months since the Alabama Supreme Court … Continued
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August 20, 2020

A brief look at candidate Barry Moore

Former state Representative Barry Moore will face Dothan businessman Jeff Coleman in a Republican primary runoff for Alabama’s Second Congressional District on July 14. Moore entered politics in 2010, at the urging of then-Chair of the Republican Party Mike Hubbard. (Hubbard is a convicted felon who is sentenced to four years in state prison for … Continued
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June 15, 2020
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Mike Hubbard conviction finally upheld

Over the past four years during my travels and speaking events over the state, the most asked question posed to me has been, “Why in the world is Mike Hubbard not in jail?” It was four years ago in June 2016 that the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, Mike Hubbard, was convicted by … Continued
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May 27, 2020

Will Mike Hubbard ever go to jail? Yes. And likely soon.

Mike Hubbard is likely going to prison within the next couple of months.  Hubbard, the former Alabama House speaker, had his conviction on 11 felony ethics counts partially upheld last week by the Alabama Supreme Court. The justices overturned five of the charges and sent them back to the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals for … Continued
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April 14, 2020