State Rep. John Rogers has been indicted again by a federal grand jury for his role in an alleged kickback scheme involving the Jefferson County Community Service Fund, only months after an earlier round of indictments.

The new charges accuse the long-time Birmingham representative of inducing an assistant to lie to investigators as they began to look into the fund’s use of public money.

The indictment, in U.S. District Court, charges Rogers, 83, with one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, 11 counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, conspiracy to obstruct justice, three counts of obstruction of justice, and aiding and abetting the making of a false statement to federal investigators.

A federal grand jury last September charged Rogers with obstruction of justice and obstruction of justice by bribery, alleging that he offered public money to the founder of a nonprofit in exchange for the founder lying to the FBI about a kickback scheme involving public tax dollars.

Rogers, who has served in the state legislature for four decades, called his week in jail last year “the worst days in my life.” Rogers was taken into custody for allegedly violating bond.

The case has already claimed the career of one legislator. Last June, former Rep. Fred Plump, Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy and resigned from the Alabama House of Representatives.

The indictment last year alleged that between fiscal year 2018 and fiscal year 2022, Rogers was allocated about $500,000 by the community service fund, a collection of public tax dollars that local lawmakers receive to hand out to various service organizations.

Rogers directed about $400,000 of that money to Plump’s baseball league. In turn, Plump gave about $200,000 to Rogers’ assistant, Varrie Johnson Kindall. The earlier indictment said Kindall used the money for personal spending, including a mortgage and credit card payments.

The new indictment alleges that Rogers, along with Kindall, received some of the $200,000 from Plump as a kickback.

It also alleges that, from March 2019 through April 2023, Rogers and Kindall received half of the fund money as kickbacks, while Plump “submitted false and fraudulent information” about how the money was being used. Rogers’ certifications on the request forms were false, prosecutors say.

The indictment also alleges that, once Rogers and Kindall learned of the federal investigation, they offered a witness grant money as a bribe to give false information to federal agents.

Rogers and Kindall agreed that she would accept full responsibility for the crimes, with Kindall telling federal investigators that Rogers did not participate in the scheme, in exchange for Rogers’s promise to take care of personal issues for Kindall if she went to prison.

Because of this, prosecutors say, Kindall lied to investigators and prosecutors during a meeting at the United States Attorney’s Office on May 25, 2023.