Bryan Bogard, who served as treasurer of the Kentucky FOP at various times, faces one count of wire fraud. Prosecutors filed a plea agreement alongside the charging document, signaling that Bogard intends to plead guilty.

The case is related to one involving Kevin Ryan Straw, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud earlier this year and was sentenced in August to 27 months in prison.

According to Bogard's plea agreement, between January 2020 and September 2024 he devised a scheme to defraud the state FOP by withdrawing cash from its accounts and charging personal expenses to the organization. The expenses included travel, jewelry, supplements, meals and purchases from Amazon. The one specific purchase cited in the plea deal was a December 2023 transaction at Tiffany & Co. for jewelry, which prosecutors used to support the wire-fraud charge.

In total, Bogard misappropriated $30,839, according to the plea agreement. That figure includes $9,359 in cash withdrawals, $18,014 in personal expenses charged to the state FOP credit card, $1,837 in unauthorized restaurant expenses, $1,066 in unauthorized Amazon purchases and subscriptions, and $562 in unauthorized vehicle expenses.

After the problem was detected, Bogard returned $4,000 to the state FOP. His plea deal calls for him to repay the remaining $26,839.

Bogard was a lieutenant with the Covington Police Department when the investigation became public last year. Sebastian D. Torres, executive director of external affairs and counsel for the city of Covington, said Bogard retired from his job with the city while under investigation.

Wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, though Bogard's sentence is unlikely to reach that length under the plea agreement. An arraignment date had not been set as of Thursday.

In the related case, Straw, of Lexington, admitted misappropriating money from FOP Metropolitan Lodge 32 in Louisville and from the state FOP. Straw, who was a probation and parole officer for the Kentucky Department of Corrections from 2012 to 2020, was president of Metro Lodge 32 at times and also served as vice-president and government affairs chair for the state FOP, according to the court record.

Straw admitted he withdrew $49,760 in cash from a Metro Lodge 32 account in 2024 for his own use. In 2023 and 2024, he also charged personal expenses to the state FOP credit card and filed false vouchers to get reimbursed for travel expenses he did not actually incur, totaling $57,064, according to court records.

Between 2021 and 2024, Straw also defrauded at least 10 people by claiming he could get significant returns on money they invested through him, when in fact he had no qualifications as an investment advisor and spent people's money on personal expenses, according to the charge against him. That fraud totaled $80,200.

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier sentenced Straw in August to 27 months in prison and to pay restitution of $187,164. Straw's attorney, Benjamin D. Allen, said in a sentencing document that Straw is determined to repay the victims as quickly as possible.

The charges against Bogard and Straw raise questions about financial oversight at the Kentucky FOP, a lobbying organization that represents law enforcement officers across the state. The group's members and the public rely on its leadership to manage funds responsibly, and the thefts represent a breach of that trust.