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F.B.I. Raid of Democrat’s Office Jolts Virginia Politics
nyt ^ | May 6, 2026 | Devlin Barrett and Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 05/08/2026 11:39:11 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter

F.B.I. agents on Wednesday searched the business office of a powerful Democratic state legislator in Virginia who had played a key role in a high-stakes congressional redistricting fight.

The legislator, L. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth, is a senior leader in the State Senate, where she has served for more than 30 years. Two people familiar with the case said the search was related to an investigation opened during the Biden administration that has continued, examining possible corruption and bribery related to marijuana dispensary businesses.

The F.B.I. agents executed a search warrant at an office in Portsmouth, Va., for businesses that Ms. Lucas owns including a network of group homes for older adults and at a neighboring marijuana dispensary she owns, according to several people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Other locations were also searched, the people said.

Federal agents served Ms. Lucas with the search warrant as she entered a massage parlor on Wednesday morning, according to two people who spoke with her.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cannibis; fraud; louiselucas; portsmouth; redistricting; virginia

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""""The F.B.I. agents executed a search warrant at an office in Portsmouth, Va., for businesses that Ms. Lucas owns including a network of group homes for older adults and at a neighboring marijuana dispensary she owns, according to several people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.""""

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Interesting that Ms Lucas owns a network of group homes.

Given the massive fraud in the USA regarding daycares, hospices, etc., it seems likely to me that Ms Lucas was also among those who have been defrauding the government.

1 posted on 05/08/2026 11:39:11 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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“...owns a network of group homes”

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Other potentialities. How many voters were registered at those addresses versus actual occupancy?

How many companies are registered at those addresses? How many business bank accounts? Who audits them?


2 posted on 05/08/2026 11:42:22 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

re-districting over-turned by VA Supreme Court, important Dem officeholder accused of fraud...house of cards collapsing


3 posted on 05/08/2026 11:44:23 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“Cuff him and stuff him.”

—Mayor Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard.


4 posted on 05/08/2026 11:48:53 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

30 years! That’s one heck of a crime spree!


5 posted on 05/08/2026 11:52:05 AM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
"You ain't gonna pin that on me!!" says L. Louise...


6 posted on 05/08/2026 11:52:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: frank ballenger
“Cuff him and stuff him.”

—Mayor Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard.

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I'll put out an APB. Kug ug ug!
7 posted on 05/08/2026 11:54:10 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Great to get Virginia involved. The latest.

Investigative reporter said the online search of records in Minnesota found one place where a cleaning lady saw the fraud and made her own nonexistent senior enterprise billing Medicare $100,000 a month and then expanded to nearly $500,000 a month. Another center was a building with dozens of tiny one room offices and former closets with usually paper signs on them for phony care centers, each billing the government for millions over the years for nothing inside the rooms—just an address on file.


8 posted on 05/08/2026 11:54:37 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ghost of nixon

re-districting over-turned by VA Supreme Court, important Dem officeholder accused of fraud...house of cards collapsing

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House of cards (agreed) doesn’t collapse until someone goes to prison. We know what they are doing, but there must be a conviction.


9 posted on 05/08/2026 11:59:07 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s like a scene at the bar where MacDundee finds the woman hitting on him is a man.


10 posted on 05/08/2026 12:01:18 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Photo....

From Wikipedia “Angry Black Woman Syndrome.”
The angry black woman stereotype is a derogatory racial stereotype of Black American women as pugnacious, poorly mannered, and aggressive.
...The stereotype has its roots in white supremacy. From the very beginning, the concept of whiteness has revolved around social control—specifically, the methods employed to ensure compliance among individuals to establish and uphold white supremacy.
... depict them as grotesque, immoral, aggressive, masculine, loud, irrational, promiscuous, unintelligent, and as burdensome laborers. These representations have effectively served to dehumanize Black women, legally and morally excluding them from the protections granted to white women, while simultaneously rationalizing the commodification of Black women.


The online gambling corporation didn’t choose one of my TWO different women bosses just before I retired.

Still a true to life ad.... Must be dangerous for the company.

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...

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11 posted on 05/08/2026 12:02:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Photo....

My special rights and protections ID card in my wallet was guaranteed personally by President Obama. He said as long as the Democrats are in control in Washington, I am totally safe.

Reporter: But the GOP is now in charge.

Uh....


12 posted on 05/08/2026 12:06:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Will we see a perp walk in handcuffs and leg irons?!?


13 posted on 05/08/2026 12:08:42 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Texas Texas Again)
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To: frank ballenger

Wow, Wiki actually has the entry with that description?!


14 posted on 05/08/2026 12:15:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yup. “Angry Black Woman”.


15 posted on 05/08/2026 12:20:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Carl Vehse

RE: Will we see a perp walk in handcuffs and leg irons?!?

After all the past news clips of Pam Bondi’s winning court cases and the many corrupt politicians going into prison the American people may want a vacation from them. /SARC


16 posted on 05/08/2026 12:23:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Supposedly CIA Spook Spam Burger is happy to see this feisty old Democrat Plantation House Negro get tangled up in a briar patch .

Spam Burger says out with the Negroes and in with more of her people, IVY League CIA Spooks, I would assume.


17 posted on 05/08/2026 12:25:39 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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This and the VA Supreme Courts decision today sure has jolted Spazberger’s nuts off.


18 posted on 05/08/2026 12:35:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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They should have SWAT raided her at 3 a.m. and handcuffed her naked in the road in front of her house until after the morning commute was over. The left will keep doing this until it starts being done back to them.


19 posted on 05/08/2026 12:38:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I hope they came in full swat, flash bangs, grenades, flamethrowers, A-10s…..

Karma bit$h


20 posted on 05/08/2026 12:44:52 PM PDT by blitz128
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