It turns out UCAN wasn't the only non-profit linked to a Martinez relative to receive city funds. Click through for the full article.

Manhattan City Councilman Miguel Martinez will plead guilty as early as Thursday to federal charges involving the misuse of taxpayer dollars through Council slush funds.

He will be the first Council member charged criminally in a year-old pork-barrel probe.

Sources familiar with the case said Martinez agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges related to the misuse of public funds by several nonprofit groups, including one where his sister was a board member.

Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Lev Dassin quietly filed a notice Tuesday indicating Martinez will plead guilty to unspecified charges. One of the groups involved in the case is a group Martinez has long favored with public funds - the Upper Manhattan Council Assisting Neighbors (U-CAN).

In the last two fiscal years, Martinez earmarked $786,000 in taxpayer dollars for U-CAN while his sister Maria served on its board.

The Daily News first reported the funding conflict in April 2008.

The pork included $380,000 he earmarked this budget year, but it was shelved after the city's Department of Investigation raided U-CAN in March. U-CAN hasn't filed tax forms in years. Its most up-do-date filing, for 2006, shows it receives 100% of its funding from government sources.

This year, Martinez also sponsored $53,000 in public funds for another nonprofit, ARC XVI Fort Washington Inc., which has employed his sister as a program aide.

Update: Manhattan Times and Crain's report that Guillermo Linares, who worked for the Bloomberg admin as city commissioner of immigrant affairs, has resigned to run for the now-vacant Martinez seat. Linares, who previously served on the Council in District 10, is expected to be named by the Martinez camp as a substitute candidate -- a development that at least one of his opponents, Ydanis Rodriguez, is already using to link Linares to the disgraced former councilman. (h/t @Carla Zanoni)