Rep. Michael Grimm cooked the books at an Upper East Side eating theater he owned to conceal to a greater extent than than $1 1000000 inward revenue in addition to payoff from the taxman, prosecutors charged Monday.
The Staten Island Republican, a old FBI agent, was striking amongst a battery of federal charges — including wire in addition to post service fraud, perjury, hiring undocumented immigrants in addition to filing imitation taxation returns — inward a blistering 20-count indictment.
Grimm surrendered to FBI agents in addition to was arraigned inward Brooklyn federal court. He faces upward to twenty years inward prison theater if convicted.
“Michael Grimm had a selection faced past times every draw of piece of job organisation possessor inward America: He could accept done it honestly, or cheated his agency to success,” Brooklyn U.S. of A. of America Attorney Loretta Lynch said. “Grimm made the selection to become from upholding the police to breaking it.”
The charges arise from Grimm’s performance of Healthalicious, a Second Ave. eatery he co-owned from 2007 until 2010, when he was get-go elected to Congress.
(http://www.nydailynews.com/)
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