Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants President Trump’s pardon czar, Alice Marie Johnson, to review what he says was a “politically motivated prosecution” that led to a 2007 conviction and a stint in federal prison.

Scrushy and his attorneys are planning a press conference in Montgomery today.

Scrushy wants “the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., investigate corruption, widespread fraud, and weaponization of the DOJ in the middle district of Alabama” in his conviction, an announcement of the press conference states.

Prosecutors said Scrushy directed high-level employees to falsify the books for Birmingham’s HealthSouth when its earnings didn’t meet Wall Street expectations. About $2.7 billion was at issue, overstated in financial reports from 1996 through 2002.

Scrushy was again tried in federal court – this time for bribery involving ex-Gov. Don Siegelman. Scrushy was accused of bribing Siegelman with $500,000 in exchange for a seat on the Certificate of Need Review Board, the state agency with oversight over HealthSouth.

In 2006, a federal jury convicted Siegelman of bribery for appointing Scrushy to that board.

Siegelman, the last Democrat to serve as governor, who was out on appeal for some time after his conviction, was released from prison in 2017. He unsuccessfully sought pardons from Obama and Biden.

Scrushy says his lawyers “uncovered and continue to uncover clear and convincing evidence that he was wrongly convicted and incarcerated for five years.”

“The public will be shocked at the diabolical ploy and actions of the officials within the Middle District Department of Justice that destroyed the lives of Richard Scrushy and his family who were prominent Alabamians,” said attorney Tommy Gallion.

“Federal prosecutors knowingly and wrongly sought to destroy Scrushy and his family’s lives by their actions.”

Scrushy says the U.S. Attorney General should vacate or reverse his conviction and he should be considered for a presidential pardon.

Scrushy said he would reveal details of his “blatantly unconstitutional and criminal” prosecution today.

In February, Trump named Johnson his pardon czar.

Johnson, who was previously incarcerated in Alabama’s Aliceville Federal Correctional Institution, has worked with Trump since her life sentence for drug offenses was commuted by the president after Kim Kardashian pleaded her case.