SACRAMENTO, Calif. >> California lobbyists soaked in the sun at a Maui resort last week, attending conference sessions about energy and manufacturing in the morning, and relaxing on the beach in the afternoon. For them, it was an annual escape after spending much of the year trying to muscle laws through the state legislature in Sacramento.

But in between policy discussions, the tropical luxury was occasionally interrupted by the question on everyone’s mind:

Did you get one?

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

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