MARIETTA | Author to plead guilty to dating site scam | News

ATLANTA -- The local author of a fantasy trilogy who was accused of bilking women out of millions of dollars is scheduled to enter a guilty plea in federal court.

Mitchell Gross' defense attorney Jerry Froelich said his client would plead guilty at a hearing Tuesday to charges related to the scheme.

The 61-year-old Marietta man was charged last year with bilking a Florida real estate agent he met through an online Jewish dating site into investing about $3 million in a sham company that he secretly controlled. They say he used some of the money to repay another woman who he had bilked out of at least $1.4 million.

Gross writes under the pen names Mitchell Graham and Douglas Alan. His work includes a suspense story called "Circle of Lies."