A federal judge today set the sentencing date for former State Rep. Fred Plump after officially accepting his guilty plea on corruption charges in a long-running kickback scheme.

U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler accepted Plump’s guilty plea and set a sentencing date for Oct. 23. He was released on $5,000 bond.

Plump, D-Birmingham, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of obstruction of justice, relating to misuse of state grant money that was supposed to benefit his non-profit baseball league. Plump resigned from the Alabama Legislature after he was charged in May.

Plump confessed to conspiring with others to defraud and obtain money from the Jefferson County Community Service Fund for his nonprofit, Piper Davis Youth Baseball League.

Prosecutors say that nearly $200,000 in grant funds intended for the league, instead was given to Varrie Johnson, a legislative assistant of Rep. John Rogers through checks written for bogus activities that never occurred. Neither Rogers nor Johnson have been charged with a crime.