By Associated Press
Montgomery, AL – Former HealthSouth C-E-O Richard Scrushy has been moved out of a federal penetentiary in Atlanta and taken to a federal prison system transfer facility in Oklahoma City.
Federal prison system spokesman Mike Truman said Wednesday that Scrushy arrived at the facility in Oklahoma City Tuesday. Truman said the transfer facility is usually a stopping point for prisoners before being taken to a permanent prison.
Prison system officials would not say where Scrushy will be taken. His attorneys said in a court filing that he had been assigned to a low security federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. That's about 580 miles by car from his home in Birmingham.
Scrushy and former Governor Don Siegelman were convicted last year of bribery and other charges in a government corruption case. Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and Scrushy to almost seven years on June 28.
Scrushy and Siegelman shared a cell in the Atlanta prison for two weeks before Siegelman was transferred last week. He is now in a federal prison at Oakdale, Louisiana.
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