Rep. Suhas Subramanyam says FBI wiretapped his calls with Virginia state senator

Representative Suhas Subramanyam announced that the DOJ and FBI wiretapped his phone calls with Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas between March 6 and April 5, 2026. The surveillance was part of an ongoing federal corruption probe into Lucas, who has denied wrongdoing. Subramanyam, a House Oversight Committee member, condemned the wiretap as politically motivated retaliation by the Trump administration, pointing to its timing during Virginia's redistricting referendum.

Claims

• ▪Representative Suhas Subramanyam announced that the Department of Justice and FBI notified him that his phone calls with Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas were wiretapped.
• ▪The Department of Justice and FBI notified multiple individuals in the Virginia political world that their phone calls had been tapped as part of the federal investigation into Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas.
• ▪Representative Suhas Subramanyam characterized the timing of the wiretap as suspicious because it occurred during the peak of campaigning for Virginia's redistricting referendum.
• ▪FBI agents executed court-approved searches at Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas's Portsmouth district office and an adjacent cannabis dispensary on May 6, 2026.
• ▪Representative Suhas Subramanyam accused President Donald Trump's Department of Justice of acting as a personal law firm to carry out political vendettas against opponents.
• ▪Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas has denied any wrongdoing, and the specific focus of the federal corruption investigation has not been made public.
• ▪The wiretap of Representative Suhas Subramanyam's calls was conducted as part of an ongoing federal corruption investigation into Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas.
• ▪Virginia voters approved a redistricting constitutional amendment in April 2026, which could potentially grant the Democratic Party up to four additional U.S. House seats.
• ▪Representative Suhas Subramanyam stated that the wiretap was intended to intimidate Democrats but asserted that he and the House Oversight Committee would continue investigating the Trump administration.
• ▪A federal judge authorized the wiretap in early March 2026, resulting in the interception of Representative Suhas Subramanyam's calls with Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas between March 6 and April 5, 2026.
• ▪The federal investigation into Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas has been open since the presidential administration of Joe Biden.
• ▪Under federal wiretap laws, the government is required to notify individuals whose communications were intercepted on a court-authorized wiretap once the surveillance ends.
• ▪The interception of a person's communications on a federal wiretap does not indicate that the individual is a target of the underlying investigation or suspected of criminal wrongdoing.
• ▪The wiretap of Representative Suhas Subramanyam's calls coincided with efforts by the House Oversight Committee to call former Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

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