State Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, is not the first Tidewater Virginia legislator to face criminal charges — and the track record so far suggests legislators have carried the day.
Former House of Delegates member Phillip A. Hamilton, who represented a Newport News district in the state legislature for two decades, arranged funding for a center at Old Dominion University, then was hired as its director.
A U.S. District Court judge authorized the FBI to monitor state Sen. Louise Lucas’ phone communications between March 6 and April 6 of this year, according to sealed federal court records.
Virginia budget negotiators have a deal for a new two-year spending plan that resolves — at least temporarily — an increasingly bitter debate between Democratic leaders about how the state should tax and regulate data centers.
Scott blamed the budget crisis on Lucas for allegedly refusing to negotiate over the Senate's proposed repeal of a state sales and use tax exemption for data center equipment.
NORFOLK — Nearly two weeks after FBI agents raided the businesses of state Sen. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, she said she still knows nothing about the raid or what’s being investigated. On May 6, a bevy of federal agents executed search warrants on the office and businesses of Lucas, including The Cannabis Outlet in Portsmouth. The FBI also raided The CBD Shoppe in Norfolk the same day. The ...
Attorney General Todd Blanche announces charges against Sen. Lucas
Former House of Delegates member Phillip A. Hamilton, who represented a Newport News district in the state legislature for two decades, arranged funding for a center at Old Dominion University, then was hired as its director.
