Grimm pleads guilty to tax charge
Congressmember Michael Grimm, a representative for Staten Island and portions of Brooklyn since 2011, plead guilty to one felony count of tax evasion in Brooklyn Federal Court on Tuesday, December 23.
When asked outside of court if he planned to resign his seat, Grimm reportedly said no.
Charged in a 20-count federal indictment in April,—including multiple counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, perjury, one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, one count of impeding the Internal Revenue Service, one count of health care fraud, one count of engaging in a pattern or practice of hiring and continuing to employ unauthorized aliens, and one count of obstructing an official proceeding — the Congressman’s alleged crimes arise from a business he owned called Healthalicious, a small fast food eatery in Manhattan.