FBI raids Currie's home

The Washington Post reports that FBI agents have raided the residence of state Sen. Ulysses Currie (D-Forestville) today, removing file folders from his home.

Federal officials also performed a raid on the headquarters of Shoppers Food and Pharmacy in Lanham, taking boxes of documents with them. 

Currie, who has been in the Senate since 1995 and chaired the powerful Senate Budget and Tax committee since 2002, confirmed to the Post that agents "stopped by" his home but said he did not know whether he was a subject in their investigation.

A spokesperson for Supervalu, Shopper's parent company, said in a statement that Currie works as an "outside consultant" for the company but would provide no further details about his role with the grocer, the Post reports.

"The FBI has told us that they are working on an investigation related to one of our service providers," the statement read. "We are cooperating fully with the FBI and cannot provide additional detail at this time.”

"It's an ongoing investigation," Rich Wolf, an FBI spokesman, told the Post. 

He declined to say who or what the FBI is investigating in this matter.

Currie's press office did not return phone messages when contacted by PolitickerMD.com.

Prior to his service in the state Senate, Currie served in the House of Delegates from 1987-1995. He represents the 25th legislative district in Prince George's County.

A chain of 64 supermarkets, Shoppers Food and Pharmacy is located in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Delaware. Within The Free State, they have locations in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's and St. Mary's Counties.

Supervalu, headquartered in Minnesota, is the third largest food retailer and distributor in the country, with roughly 2,500 stores and 200,000 employees nationwide.