By Paul Kiel - October 16, 2006, 12:37 PM
Just this weekend we
that the FBI was investigating the relationships between Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) and his daughter's lobbying clients.
Today, federal agents have raided the home of Karen Weldon, who launched her successful lobbying career at 28, and whose clients reportedly enjoy remarkable attention from her father's office.
Weldon sought to cast doubt on the reports' veracity that there was an investigation. There can be no more doubt.
From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) this morning.
The agents departed Karen Weldon's three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes.
A government car pulled into the alley to the back door of the house and loaded boxes into it. Three agents standing in an alley declined to identify themselves.
Over the weekend, a number of papers (McClatchy first among them) reported that the FBI had opened an investigation of Rep. Curt Weldon's relationship to her daughter's lobbying clients -- Karen, who was 28 when she started up her small practice, seemed to trade on her father's position.
Update: In an update of their earlier story, the Inquirer reports that Charlie Sexton, Karen Weldon's lobby partner, was also raided. 
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