Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard will pay monthly payments over the next 17 years to settle a debt he owes the state stemming from his 2016 conviction for a felony abuse of office, according to court documents filed Thursday. You will have to pay $1000.

Mr. Hubbard was convicted of 12 ethics felonies by a Lee County jury after a lengthy legal battle that included multiple attempts by his fellow deputies to weaken the charges. These efforts included rewriting ethics laws, which Hubbard himself helped develop.

Mr. Hubbard was originally sentenced to four years in prison, but ended up serving just over two years after the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and the Alabama Supreme Court dismissed half of the charges against him. A Lee County judge reduced his prison sentence from four years to 28 months.

As part of the original sentence, Hubbard was ordered to pay restitution for his crimes and various legal costs and fees. He owed a total of $205,834, according to documents filed Thursday.

The Alabama Attorney General's Office has asked a court to force Hubbard into a “meaningful” payment plan after multiple failed attempts over the past year since he was released from prison. . A filing from the AG's office states that Hubbard has failed to make a single payment on his debt in the past 12 months. A response from Mr. Hubbard's attorney said that Mr. Hubbard would not object to the payment plan.

Hubbard's crimes were classic public corruption. In one charge, Hubbard used his position as Speaker of the House to have language inserted into the state's general fund budget that created a drug monopoly for customers. He later voted in favor of the budget, despite warnings from his aides against it. Other charges include using public officials to obtain lucrative consulting contracts in exchange for legislative favors for clients.

Mr. Hubbard's conviction was a shocking fall from grace for a man widely considered to be the state's most powerful politician at the time. He helped orchestrate the rise of the Republican Party in Alabama, culminating in 2010 when Republicans gained control of the state Legislature for the first time in more than 100 years.

The purchase was part of a promise by Mr. Hubbard and other Republicans to sweep Congress and enforce some of the strongest ethics laws in the country. They passed a law, but within four years the person who helped pass it broke the law.