Live updates: DOJ indicts top Virginia Democrat on corruption, drug charges; Trump heads to Iowa

A federal indictment accuses one of Virginia’s most powerful Democrats, state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, of having a role in leading a criminal enterprise that acquired and distributed large quantities of marijuana and laundered the proceeds. The indictment, unsealed on Thursday, charged Lucas and six other defendants, including several of her relatives, the Justice Department…

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