Mark Foley's fantasy comes true: he's being probed

Florida has opened a full criminal investigation into sexually explicit Internet messages from disgraced former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, whose resignation amid scandal helped Democrats win control of Congress, officials said on Thursday.

"We are now doing an active criminal investigation," said Heather Smith, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

"[W]e've established there is factual and credible information or evidence that a criminal violation may have been committed."

Foley, a six-term Florida congressman, resigned his seat in late September after public disclosure he sent sexually explicit electronic messages to teenage boys who had worked as congressional interns.

Congress and the FBI launched investigations in addition to the Florida probe