Federal authorities announced Wednesday that three North Charleston city council members have been charged with various corruption crimes following a year-long

Two of the three North Charleston City Council members — Jerome Heyward, 61, and Sandino Moses, 50 — were charged by an information and have agreed to plead guilty, according to a U.S. Attorney’s office press release. The other North Charleston city council member, Mike A. Brown, was indicted by a federal grand jury, the press release said.

North Charleston City Councilman Jerome Heyward resigned from office after being accused by feds of accepting bribes, kickbacks to further corruption schemes,