By Alabama Public Radio
Birmingham, AL – U-S District Judge U-W Clemon has given probation to one former HealthSouth executive and sentenced another to a week in prison. Former HealthSouth Vice President Richard Botts was re-sentenced today because a federal appeals court ruled the judge did not adequately explain himself in an earlier sentencing hearing. The judge gave Botts the same sentence -- five years of probation, six months of house arrest and 275-thousand dollars in fines and forfeitures. HealthSouth's former finance chief Mike Martin will spend a week in prison for his role in the two-point-seven billion dollar accounting fraud. Clemon had previously sentenced Martin to probation but is now sending him to prison because prosecutors asked that he spend some time behind bars.