Grimm expected to plead guilty

Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., is expected to appear in a Brooklyn federal court Tuesday to plead guilty in a tax fraud case that shadowed his successful re-election bid earlier this year, said a person with knowledge of the case but who declined to comment publicly.

A hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m., before U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen.

The congressman, named in a 20-count April indictment, was charged with failing to report more than $1 million in restaurant sales and wages as a former owner of a Manhattan fast-food business. He is expected to plead guilty to one count of assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.

A former FBI agent and Marine, Grimm was first elected in 2010 to the seat that covers part of Brooklyn and all of Staten Island.

In announcing the charges earlier this year, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who has since been nominated to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, said Grimm "made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it.''

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"In so doing he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken,'' Lynch said then.