Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and Edward Anderton, 25, are due in state court in Philadelphia today for a preliminary hearing. They will not appear as the case is moved to federal court, the lawyer said.

"It's obviously been a difficult, taxing process for her and her family," lawyer Ronald Greenblatt said. He declined to discuss details of the potential plea.

But given the scope of the alleged fraud, which police put at more than $100,000, prison time is likely under federal guidelines.

Both Anderton's lawyer, Larry Krasner, and federal prosecutors declined to comment.

The couple's travel photos show them swimming in the Caribbean, dining at upscale resorts and kissing under the Eiffel Tower. Kirsch, then a Drexel University student, is often seen posing in bright bikinis and slinky outfits.

Police released the photos after the couple's arrest in December and said they had used other people's money to finance their $3,000-a-month Philadelphia condo and luxury trips to Paris, London and Hawaii.

Authorities charged that they stole the identity of neighbors in their building and at least twice broke into other units. Detectives showed off a table full of fake ID cards and driver's licenses they had seized, along with computers, printers, a machine that makes ID cards, $17,000 in cash and several neighbor's keys.

Anderton, a competitive swimmer from California, graduated in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania with an economics degree. Kirsch, the daughter of a North Carolina plastic surgeon, would have graduated from Drexel this spring.