(snipped from USA Today's website from the google news aggregate)   
      
   N.Y. Rep. Grimm in custody, faces criminal charges   
      
      Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., reportedly will surrender to federal   
   authorities Monday as he faces   
      criminal charges stemming from his 2010 campaign.   
      
      
   N.Y. Rep. Grimm in custody, faces criminal charges   
      
      Catalina Camia and Kevin Johnson , USA TODAY 9:46 a.m. EDT April 28, 2014   
      AP Grimms Rabbi   
      
      Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y.   
      
      
      WASHINGTON -- Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., surrendered Monday to federal   
   authorities in New York   
      to face criminal charges.   
      
      Grimm, 44, was taken into custody after turning himself in to FBI agents in   
   Manhattan. Brooklyn   
      U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch scheduled a news conference at 11 a.m. ET to   
   formally announce the   
      charges against the former FBI agent. His lawyer, William McGinley, said   
   Friday that the U.S.   
      attorney "disclosed its intent to file criminal charges" against the   
   lawmaker.   
      
      Grimm has acknowledged that he received $250,000 to $300,000 in campaign   
   donations from followers   
      of Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, an Israeli rabbi. Some of Pinto's followers in   
   New York have said they   
      made tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to   
   Grimm, including gifts   
      passed through straw donors.   
      
      Ofer Biton, the businessman who served as Grimm's liaison to Pinto's   
   congregation, pleaded guilty   
      in August to an immigration fraud charge. Diana Durand, a woman had been   
   romantically involved   
      with the congressman, was charged Friday of using straw donors to make   
   illegal campaign   
      contributions and for making false statements to the FBI. Durand's lawyer   
   said she would plead   
      not guilty.   
      
      McGinley said Friday the government has pursued "a politically driven   
   vendetta" against Grimm,   
      who has said he has done nothing wrong. "When the dust settles, he will be   
   vindicated," McGinley   
      said in his statement.   
       
      Grimm made national headlines in January when he threatened a TV reporter   
   on camera who attempted   
      to ask him about the long-running federal investigation. Grimm later   
   apologized to NY1 reporter   
      Michael Scotto.   
       
      Grimm represents a swing district based on Staten Island and parts of   
   Brooklyn. President Obama   
      won New York's 11th Congressional District in 2012 with 52% of the vote.   
      
      New York Republican Congressman Michael Grimm threatened to throw a   
   reporter from NY1 over a   
      balcony in the US Capitol, after the State of the Union address. The   
   reporter had asked Grimm   
      about campaign finance allegations. (Jan. 29) AP   
      
          
       
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