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A top Virginia Democrat‘s office has been raided by the FBI in a dramatic corruption investigation.
Virginia Senator Louise Lucas watched stunned as agents tore through her office – as well as a neighboring cannabis dispensary she co-owns in Portsmouth, around 20 miles west of Virginia Beach, on Wednesday.
The FBI raid is linked to a ‘major corruption probe,’ Fox News reported, adding that the bureau is ‘serving multiple search warrants, approved by a federal judge, at her office and a next-door cannabis dispensary.’
Lucas, 82, the highest ranking member of the Virginia Senate as President Pro Tempore, was captured by news cameras arriving on the scene sporting a pink dress and shades as the FBI searched her office.
Lucas told reporters that she did not know the reason for the raid.
The FBI said in a statement it was ‘executing a court-authorized federal search warrant in Portsmouth, VA.’
‘There is no threat to public safety. This is an ongoing investigation and no further information is publicly available at this time,’ the agency added.
Lucas is known for being a colorful character in the Virginia legislature and is a prolific X user. She posted Monday that she was ‘out partying [her] a** off all weekend long, where the h**l were you?’ in response to a meme claiming she had gone ‘missing.’
Virginia state Senator Louise L. Lucas at work in the Virginia statehouse, on February, 20, 2019 in Richmond, VA
L. Louise Lucas’ arrives at her office in Portsmouth, Viriginia where she encountered multiple FBI units (Fox 5 DC)
L. Louise Lucas’ speaks with federal law enforcement outside of her office in Portsmouth, Viriginia where she encountered multiple FBI units (Fox 5 DC)
Although Lucas and Governor Abigail Spanberger are both Democrats, they are not necessarily the best of friends.
Spanberger’s Chief of Staff sued Louise Lucas’ Marketing Director earlier this year, and Lucas was reluctant to endorse Spanberger in her 2025 gubernatorial race.
Lucas had previously been skeptical of Spanberger’s candidacy as she was a top backer of encouraging Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott to run for the post instead.
Lucas co-authored the state’s marijuana legalization law. In 2022, she noted, ‘I sell hemp products and CBD.’
On 4/20, a day that marijuana users celebrate the substance, Lucas shared a graphic which said, ‘I fill my bong with Republican tears.’
The post was also made the day before the voters narrowly approved Virginia’s new 10-1 congressional maps, for which she was a key advocate.
When Texas Senator Ted Cruz blasted her redistricting map, she fired back: ‘You all started it — and we f***ing finished it.’
From attending segregated schools during her education to holding a seat in America’s oldest legislative body, Lucas has had a lengthy career of firsts
Her political career has included becoming Portsmouth’s first black councilwoman in 1984 and, by 2019, the first woman and first African American to preside over Virginia’s State Senate.
In one dramatic moment after a Confederate statue fell at a 2020 protest she attended, conspiracy charges against her were tossed as baseless.
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