CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (AP) -- A former labor executive in Iowa has pleaded guilty to three fraud counts.
Former Hawkeye Labor Council president Alan Bernard entered the guilty pleas Monday in federal court to charges he misappropriated more than $11,000.
The 57-year-old pleaded guilty to one count each of access device fraud, forged securities and aggravated identity theft as part of a plea agreement.
Bernard was accused of using another person's credit card from July 26, 2006, to July 26, 2007. He allegedly obtained $6,511 worth of merchandise and forged a check on the council's account for $5,000.
Bernard was originally charged with 41 fraud counts. The government will dismiss the other charges at the time of sentencing.
U.S. Magistrate Jon Scoles told Bernard the aggravated identity theft sentence would run consecutively to other charges. The judge didn't set a sentencing date.
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