Former Gov. Don E. Siegelman of Alabama was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison yesterday by a federal judge in Montgomery for his part in a bribery scheme connected to his effort to establish a state lottery. Mr. Siegelman was also ordered to pay more than $200,000 in fines and restitution.

Richard Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, who had also been convicted in the bribery scheme, was sentenced to just under seven years in prison.

Image Former Gov. Don E. Siegelman Credit... Dave Martin/AP Photo

Mr. Siegelman, a Democrat elected in 1998, insisted that the prosecution had been politically motivated, even connecting it to the White House through a lawyers’ affidavit that surfaced earlier this month.