Los Angeles - FBI agents and a local public corruption task force raided Palm Springs City Hall armed with search warrants on Tuesday, sending home employees and closing the offices for the day, an FBI spokeswoman said.
Spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said she could not disclose the nature of the searches, which were conducted with members of the so-called Inland Empire Public Corruption Task Force, because the case was under seal.
Eimiller said no suspects had been taken into custody in the desert resort community about 110 miles (177 km) east of Los Angeles and that no arrests were planned on Tuesday.
“We arrived at about 9 a.m. and expect to be out here for several hours, if not all day,” she said.
The local Desert Sun newspaper reported that the raid came some three months after the state's Fair Political Practices Commission opened an investigation into links between Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet and a real estate developer.
Eimiller declined to say if the FBI raid was connected in any way to that case.
Reuters