More emails have been released by prosecutors in the corruption case against Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

These, rather than outlining schemes for making money from his position as Speaker - as previously filed emails did -- purport to show that Hubbard, one of his lawyers, and former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley were for months being briefed on the status of the grand jury investigation by a mole inside the attorney general's office.

On Dec. 12, 2012, then-Alabama GOP chair Bill Armistead broke the news to Republican steering committee members that a grand jury had begun asking questions about the party's campaign finance operations during 2010, when Hubbard ran the GOP.

Alabama Rep. Mike Hubbard (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

By the next day, Hubbard, Riley, and Riley's son Rob - who was representing Hubbard, according to the exhibits filed in the case - had already received insight into the investigation from the bowels of Attorney General Luther Strange's office.

"Talk to Rob when you can," Hubbard told Riley in a Dec. 13, 2012 email. "Armistead and Luther have now teamed up to try and ruin me politically. Not sure what Luther's end game is other than he views me as a potential threat down the road. Rob knows details. "

Former Gov. Riley responded this way:

"I was with him during the conversations with you and Sonny last night," he wrote. "Have a couple of people trying to understand what's happening."

And that's the nugget. The first of them, anyway.

Because Sonny Reagan, who worked in Strange's office after working for Bob Riley himself, resigned from Strange's office last year after being told he would be fired for obstructing the Hubbard investigation and having improper conversations. Reagan at the time wrote "I categorically deny that any such conversations have been improper."

But these emails trace the communication back to the beginning of the investigation. Hubbard told Riley he had done nothing wrong, that Strange was trying to ruin him to gain political advantage.

"Armistead is evil and I guess so is Luther," Hubbard wrote. And later in the string of emails:

"I guess he sees me as a threat for Governor in 2018," Hubbard wrote. "It sounds crazy, bur (sic) may be true. Also know that he met with Armistead 3 weeks ago. The subpoena yesterday was very well orchestrated that maximized re (sic) drama. Armistead read it aloud to the Steering Committed (sic) (with glee)."

Hubbard, his lawyers and his mentor had a voice from inside. Hubbard wrote Riley in January 2013 about discussions Reagan had with Hubbard's then-Chief of Staff, Josh Blades.

"Confidentially, I received word just now from Josh that a mutual friend in the AG's office (he used to work for you) called to tell him that the prosecutor told him this afternoon that the accusations against me have been thoroughly investigated and totally dismissed by the Grand Jury," Hubbard wrote Riley.

What's interesting here is that this filing comes in response to a motion by Hubbard's defense team to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that prosecutors violated grand jury secrecy by leaking information. The state argues there is nothing to support that claim. And let's face it, they will fight that part out in court.

Hubbard lawyer Mark White has already subpoenaed records and testimony from Strange, and from various staffers in the AG's office, as well as radio hosts Dale Jackson and Leland Whaley, who spoke to prosecutor Matt Hart on the telephone.

So far, though, most of the evidence of real grand jury leaks has flowed toward the Hubbard camp.