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The South Philadelphia office of a state representative who received campaign contributions from two principals of the company providing river sediment to a Hazleton mine reclamation project was raided Wednesday by the FBI and IRS. Federal agents descended on state Rep. William F. Keller’s office Wednesday morning, according to The Associated Press. FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver and IRS spokeswoman Shauna M. Frye confirmed their agencies visited the property but declined to comment on the nature of the probe. They were accompanied by uniformed Philadelphia police. Keller, who represents the 184th district, was elected to the state House in 1993. The...

KINGSTON – The offices of two firms connected to a dredge site in Hazleton were searched Tuesday by agents with several federal offices, including the U.S. Department of Defense. More than a dozen agents spent several hours removing dozens of boxes of evidence from 580 Third Ave. in Kingston, which houses the offices of Fort Mifflin Reclamation Associates and Hazleton Creek Properties. The firms are involved in a project to transport dredged material, or sludge, from the Delaware River to a mine reclamation site in Hazleton. The building is also home to Mark Realty Inc. and Mark Development Inc., which...

Federal agents, including several from the U.S. Department of Defense, raided a Kingston office building today that houses two companies involved in a federal dredging project. More than 15 agents removed more than 20 boxes from the office building on Third Avenue that is the headquarters for Hazleton Creek Properties LLC and Fort Mifflin Reclamation Associates Inc. Several of the boxes loaded by agents into a rental van were clearly marked “Fort Mifflin.” In 2006, Fort Mifflin was awarded a $21 million contract through the U.S. Army Engineer District in Philadelphia to transport materials dredged from a portion of the...