A former Pennsylvania credit union assistant manager agreed toplead guilty next month to aiding bank fraud, and to cooperate withfederal prosecutors to provide information concerning the unlawfulactivities of others.

Amanda Magda became the fourth of five defendants to pleadguilty in a $45,000 fraud and conspiracy scheme at the $38 millionWilkes-Barre City Employees Federal Credit Union in Wilkes-Barre,Pa.

In exchange for her guilty plea and cooperation, prosecutorsdropped a fraud charge against Magda. Prosecutors also are expectedto recommend a lighter sentence based on her cooperation.

Court documents did not state whether Magda's information wouldlead to additional indictments against other individuals. Shesigned her plea deal on May 6, but it was not filed in court untilTuesday.

Magda's plea hearing is set for July 13 in U.S. District Courtin Wilkes-Barre.

Magda is expected to admit that she fraudulently signed her nameas a witness to the signature of another credit union member whodid not sign the loan documents to assist Tino Ninotti in securinga $25,000 loan from the credit union.

Ninotti, a retired police officer for the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.police department, and Jason Anthony, a former Wilkes-Barre citypolice officer, both pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracyto commit bank fraud in April. Anthony admitted to forging anindividual's signature in order to secure a $7,159 credit unionloan.

Credit union member Jeffrey Serafin was the first of fivedefendants to plead guilty in January to one count of bank fraud.He admitted to using an individual's name to fraudulently obtain a$10,000 loan, court documents showed.

Serafin was sentenced in May to time served and three years ofsupervised release. He also was ordered to pay restitution of$11,578.

The fifth defendant, Leo Glodzik, a former city contractor andcredit union member, was charged with two counts of bank fraud, onecount of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of witnesstampering. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

All five defendants were originally indicted in August 2014,five months after ManagerJim Payne fatally shot himself at his Bear Creek, Pa.,home in March 2014. At that time, public reports surfaced that hewas potentially being targeted in an FBI investigation.

Soon after Payne committed suicide in March, Carrie Adamowski,an FBI spokesperson in Philadelphia, confirmed to CUTimes that Sean Quinn, director of the FBI's Scrantonoffice, said to the local media that he “considered the creditunion as a witness and a victim in an ongoing criminalinvestigation. Individual employees of the credit union werepotential targets of the investigation.”