The US Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that former CEO of a Missouri charity, Marilyn Nolan, pleaded guilty on Friday to crimes related to bribery and unlawful campaign contributions for elected public officials in Missouri and Arkansas.

Nolan admitted to conspiring “to misapply millions of dollars of the charity’s funds for substantial, undisclosed payments to lobbying firms and political advocates, monetary and in-kind contributions to the campaigns of candidates for public office, and to bribe public officials.” Nolan often accomplished the acts through encouraging charity employees to spend their own monies to fund political events and reimbursing the employees to get federal tax deductions. Donald Andrew Jones and Milton Russell Cranford are two of the lobbyists benefiting from the unlawful acts.

The charity, Preferred Family Healthcare, provided services to citizens in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma, “including mental and behavioral health treatment and counseling, substance abuse treatment and counseling, employment assistance, aid to individuals with developmental disabilities and medical services.”

The plea agreement requires Nolan to pay $4,131,111 in restitution to the government. A sentencing hearing will be schedule upon completion of the US Probation Office’s pre-sentencing investigation.