New campaign finance reports show Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas used $300,000 in campaign funds to contribute to her legal defense fund and the law firm she hired following an FBI raid this year on her businesses in Portsmouth.
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.
The $1.7 billion in impact fees that Sen. Louise Lucas proposed as an alternative to doing away with a sales tax exemption for data centers doesn’t rule out ending that tax break, she said.
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 ...
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.
