A Tabor man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. 53-year old Steven Bares faces up to 20 years in prison on the charge. Bares willfully and unlawfully devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and obtain money and property from two parishes by false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises. Bares was the bookkeeper at the two parishes, which are located in Tabor and Lesterville. The Sioux Falls Catholic Diocese hired an accounting firm to conduct a forensic audit, which uncovered multiple checks made out to companies belonging to Bares that did not correspond to any service or equipment purchased from those companies. The funds embezzled by Bares totaled around $325,000. Bares will be sentenced on December 12th.