OSTENSIBLY, they'll be looking to see if if his chat room predations can be considered federal offenses...which they might. There are different degrees of felonies.
Of course, now that the feds know it's THE Ritter who's telling us to ignore tortured kids in children's prisons in the name of peace, chanting "impeach Bush" and is the DARLING of the rabid left wing...you can betcha they're looking for something much deeper than this...if they haven't got it already.
LOL...they were probably checking right after the story broke on the NBC affiliate in Albany...days before the national news even started to bother with it.
Oh, I bet they knew about this before it broke national news....