AP source: Office of Virginia Senate leader searched by FBI as part of corruption probe
The FBI served a search warrant at the office of the Virginia Senate leader's office as part of a corruption investigation.
That's according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The search Wednesday at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state's recent redistricting.
The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search warrant in Portsmouth.
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