STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Michael Grimm will enter a guilty plea Tuesday in his tax evasion case.

Grimm will plead guilty to a felony count of tax evasion, according to a report by the New York Daily News, which cites an unnamed court official.

Grimm will enter the plea in Brooklyn federal court at a 1 p.m. hearing before Judge Pamela K. Chen, according to the court's docket.

The docket reads as such: "A plea hearing will be held on 12/23/2014, at 1:00 p.m., in Courtroom 4F North, before Judge Pamela K. Chen. Ordered by Judge Pamela K. Chen on 12/22/2014."

Grimm was charged in a 20-count federal indictment in April. He was accused of hiding more than $1 million in sales and wages at a Manhattan restaurant and with hiring undocumented immigrants.

Grimm had been slated to go to trial on Feb. 2. The announcement of the plea hearing comes after prosecutors provided Grimm's defense team with recordings and transcripts, none of which have been disclosed to the public, as part of the discovery process.

Grimm had been seeking to have the case against him dismissed on the grounds of "vindictive and selective prosecution."

Grimm defense attorney Stuart N. Kaplan did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday afternoon.

Prior to his re-election in November, Grimm said when asked about the prospect of losing the case, "If everything goes wrong and I'm put in a position where I cannot serve then of course I would step down, in which case there would be a special election."

A conviction wouldn't mean Grimm automatically loses his House seat, but he could be expelled, censured, reprimanded or fined by his House colleagues, and face other sanctions, including loss of his ability to vote in the House.

Only five House members have been expelled in history, three of them for joining the Confederacy in 1861.

The two others: Rep. Michael Myers (D-Pa.), expelled in 1980 after being convicted of bribery in the Abscam scandal, and Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), who was expelled in 2002 after being convicted of bribery, obstruction and racketeering.