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 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Attorneys for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy said they would appeal their sentences in a bribery and corruption case the judge said damaged public trust in state government.
Siegelman was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in federal prison and Scrushy got nearly seven years. U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller ordered both immediately taken into custody, not even giving them time to talk with their families.
Siegelman attorney David McDonald said an emergency appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would be filed challenging the judge's decision to have the client immediately hauled off in leg irons.
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