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Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed more than a dozen staffers working for retiring state Sen. Robert Mellow as part of an ongoing probe into public corruption in Northeast Pennsylvania, sources said Monday. About 15 staffers at the Democratic leader's offices in Peckville and Harrisburg received the hand-delivered subpoenas beginning last week from the FBI, ordering them to appear before a grand jury sitting in Harrisburg on Aug. 19, sources said. The subpoenas are the latest development in the federal investigation of Mr. Mellow, whose Peckville office and home were searched by teams of FBI and IRS agents on June 18. The...

PECKVILLE - Teams of FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents raided the Archbald home and Peckville office of retiring state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow on Friday in an apparent widening of an ongoing public corruption investigation. The nature of the investigation is unknown, but Mellow's spokeswoman denied he has done anything wrong and said he is cooperating with the investigation. FBI agents arrived simultaneously at 9 a.m. and executed search warrants at Mellow's Main Street office and his home in the Hills of Archbald housing development, where five unmarked vehicles ringed the senator's corner property, which he recently...