Months after a jury convicted him of 11 fraud-related counts for steering clients to invest in a Ponzi scheme, former lawyer and Texas State Sen. Carlos Uresti decided to put his federal criminal case behind him by pleading guilty to a pending bribery conspiracy charge.

Uresti, a San Antonio Democrat, was found guilty of the fraud charges last February and was later sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $6.3 million in restitution by Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra. After the conviction, Uresti resigned his law license in lieu of discipline from the State Bar of Texas.