SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Letters from the FBI landed this month in the mailboxes of California’s political class, notifying recipients that their phone calls and text messages were captured on a wiretap last year. The unwelcome correspondence began to arrive almost immediately after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff was indicted on 23 felony charges.

The corruption case — and the FBI letters that followed — has sent shivers through Sacramento’s close-knit community of lobbyists, government aides and elected officials.

Many have worked together for decades in a several-block radius around the state Capitol building. They have gone in and out of public service, shaping policy in the nation’s most populous state.

Now they wonder how far the federal indictment may ripple.

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