The FBI raided the office of Democratic California state Sen. Ron Calderon and the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus Tuesday for an undisclosed investigation, according to the Sacramento Bee:
Mark Geragos, Calderon's lawyer, said prosecutors "have no case," and accused them of acting inappropriately in disclosing that the FBI was conducting a search.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office should be ashamed of themselves," he said. "They have no case, so what they do is they leak the sealed information in an effort to hassle innocent people, and that's all the comment I have."
The Latino Legislative Caucus has been scrutinized in the past for not revealing information about donors to the Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation.
While there was no legal imperative for lawmakers in the Latino caucus to disclose that information, Assemblyman and then- caucus chair Tony Mendoza faced concern over what critics called unwarranted secrecy given the openness of counterparts like the Black Legislative Caucus. Under pressure from party leadership, Mendoza in July of 2011 released a list of donors who had poured more than $400,000 into the foundation since 2009.
