The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that F.B.I. agents served Democratic staffers working for Senator Robert Mellow in their ongoing probe of the senator's activities.
John Sullivan and Angela Couloumbis write:
Federal agents investigating State Sen. Robert J. Mellow, the highest-ranking Senate Democrat, served subpoenas Wednesday on dozens of Democratic staff members, including those in Mellow's Senate office.
The subpoenas compel the staffers to appear before a federal grand jury, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
Some of the staffers work directly for Mellow; others work indirectly for him as part of the Senate Democratic caucus support staff. As many as 80 staffers could be involved if all were subpoenaed, according to a listing of Senate Democratic employees.
The grand jury is probing a rental deal in which Mellow had his district office in a building in Peckville, Lackawanna County, owned at various times by longtime aide Gabriel J. Giordano; Giordano's wife, Celestine P.; Mellow's wife; and, ultimately, the senator himself.
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