FBI raids RI lawmaker's office

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Federal investigators spent Wednesday bringing out boxes from the Providence office of Rep. John J. McCauley during an afternoon raid.

According to Jim Martin from the US Attorney's Office in Providence, agents were executing a search warrant at McCauley & L'Europa Public Insurance Adjusters.

Law enforcement sources told Eyewitness News McCauley, deputy speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, was under investigation for alleged insurance fraud.

Law men and women spent about an hour at the location Wednesday, removing multiple computers and more than a dozen brown boxes.

Sources also said a federal grand jury is hearing testimony on this case this week.

According to our newspartners at The Providence Journal , McCauley's business partner - William L'Europa - watched the raid but did not speak.

A task force of Providence Police, RI State Police, FBI and ATF are involved in the probe.

McCauley was hospitalized Saturday night. Sources said McCauley had learned of the investigation that day.