Former District Councilman Michael Brown was charged Friday morning with bribery for accepting $55,000 from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen seeking a D.C. minority business contract.
Brown, who lost his seat on District council last November and abruptly pulled out of another council election in April, faces one count of bribery of a public official, a felony.
Brown is expected to plead guilty next week, News4's Tom Sherwood reported. Sherwood first reported the imminent charges Thursday night.
The case has been assigned to federal judge Robert L. Wilkins, Sherwood reported.
The incident occurred approximately one-and-a-half years ago, while Brown was a sitting council member. At the time, he was having financial issues in connection with a strained marriage, sources told Sherwood.
Brown is the son of former U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, a major figure in the National Democratic Party until he died in a European plane crash on a commerce mission in 1996.
Former D.C. Councilman Kwame Brown and Ward 5 member Harry Thomas Jr. both resigned from office after pleading guilty to unrelated felony counts. A federal investigation of Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign is ongoing.