Federal prosecutors yesterday ordered the House of Representatives to preserve all documents and other materials related to Mark Foley's electronic communications with male teenage pages, signaling an intensifying investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department into possible criminal activity by the disgraced former GOP congressman.
The three-page "preservation letter" -- sent to House Counsel Geraldine R. Gennet from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor in Washington -- indicates that law enforcement officials are preparing, if necessary, to seek grand jury subpoenas for records or searches of Foley's Capitol Hill office, said law enforcement officials and legal experts.
snip:
One law enforcement source said more than two pages but fewer than six had been interviewed as of late yesterday, and FBI agents are still trying to determine how many pages may have communicated with Foley. Investigators are not limiting their interests to participants in the congressional page program, sources said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also confirmed yesterday that it has begun its own preliminary inquiry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402002.html