JACKSON, Miss. – Two men pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery of a federal official for allegedly making a deal to falsify debris removal documents after Hurricane Katrina.

Mitchell Glen Kendrix, of Memphis, Tenn., and Paul Darrell Nelson of Lisbon, Maine, entered the pleas in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg. They will be sentenced June 8, said U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton. The two could be sentenced each to up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Prosecutors said Kendrix was working as a quality assurance representative for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers at the Hintonville dumpsite in Perry County, Miss., when he allegedly accepted payments from Nelson, a debris removal subcontractor.

Nelson is charged with paying Kendrix multiple bribes to create false load tickets for debris that Nelson never dumped at the Hintonville site.