BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, who served five years in prison for his conviction in the bribery of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, is asking a federal court to release him from his federal supervised probation 10 months early.

Scrushy's lawyer, Alabaster attorney John M. Aaron, on Tuesday filed the request in federal court in Montgomery.

Since Scrushy was released from federal prison on July 25, 2010 he has not violated the terms of his supervised release, according to the motion. His supervised release is set to end on July 25, 2015. "Scrushy has shown model post-conviction adjustment and conduct since his release," according to the motion. "He has been in compliance with all his terms and conditions of supervision."

The U.S. Probation Office also does not oppose Scrushy's early release from supervision, according to the motion. Attached to the motion is a copy of an Oct. 3 letter from Barbara Schoephoerster, Supervising U.S. Probation Officer in Houston Texas where Scrushy now lives.

"Please be advised that Richard Scrushy has been compliant with the terms and conditions of supervised release, and has completed the Court-ordered special conditions," Schoephoerster wrote. "He has responded as directed to the Probation Officer, maintained contact and communication with the Probation Officer, completed his 500-hour community service requirement, and maintained employment throughout the term of supervision."

Also, Scrushy has paid the Court-ordered $267,000 restitution, $150,000 fine, and $600 special assessment, Schoephoerster wrote in the letter.

In 2006 Scrushy and former Gov. Don Siegelman were convicted of bribery and honest services fraud. Prosecutors alleged Scrushy bought a seat on a hospital regulatory board by arranging $500,000 in donations to Siegelman's 1999 campaign to establish a state lottery.

Both Scrushy and Siegelman, who remains in federal prison, have continued their fights to have their convictions erased.

Scrushy and Siegelman were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Fuller, who is now under pressure to resign after being arrested on a charge that he had beaten his wife at an Atlanta hotel in August. Fuller agreed to undergo counseling as part of a plea agreement to have that charge expunged.

Fuller's cases have been reassigned. But it is unlikely he would have heard the motion for early release anyway. Often the requests are usually handled by a magistrate judge, in this case U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody.

Before the public corruption conviction Scrushy had been acquitted in a federal criminal trial related to the alleged $2.7 billion fraud at HealthSouth. At a civil trial in Jefferson County Circuit Court in 2009, however, Scrushy was found liable for the accounting fraud and ordered to pay HealthSouth nearly $2.9 billion in damages.