NASHVILLE — Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said he is prepared to testify if called in the expected Oct. 3 federal public corruption trial of his predecessor, Glen Casada, and Casada’s then-chief of staff, Cade Cothren.
“I think they’re still doing all of their little preliminary hearings and such,” Sexton told reporters Wednesday following a State Building Commission meeting at the Capitol.
“But, I’m sure if the prosecution decides if they need to call me as a witness and others, they’ll do it,” the Crossville Republican added.
Casada and Cothren are charged with conspiring to operate a bribery and kickback scheme involving the state legislature’s taxpayer-funded constituent mail program.
Also charged in the case was then-Rep. Robin Smith, a Hixson Republican and political consultant. Smith pled guilty in March 2022 to a single federal count of honest services wire fraud and resigned from the House.