Former House Speaker Jim Black pleaded Thursday for an extra week before starting a five-year federal prison term on Monday, saying he needs more time to report to a Pennsylvania prison and to be sentenced for separate crimes in state court, the Associated Press is reporting.

The additional week also would allow Black to transport himself to a prison in Lewisburg, Pa., where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons decided Black will serve his sentence, his lawyers said. The judge had not issued a ruling on the request by Thursday afternoon.