SAN DIEGO -- City phone records show a lobbyist for a Las Vegas strip club owner received 63 phone calls from the offices of three San Diego City Councilmen involved in a federal corruption probe.

Twelve of the phone calls to Lance Malone were made from the phones assigned to councilmen Ralph Inzunza, Michael Zucchet, and Charles Lewis, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

The others were made from their aides' phones or the district offices' main telephone lines, according to the Union-Tribune.

The first call to Malone was made May 14, 2001, from the phone of Inzunza's former chief of staff, Larry Cohen.

In all, 46 calls were made from Inzunza's office to Malone, six of them from Inzunza's desk, according to city phone records obtained Monday by the Union-Tribune.

The records show that nine calls were made from Lewis' office to Malone, including one from Lewis' desk, and eight from Zucchet's office, including five from his desk.

The FBI raided the three councilmen's offices on May 14. Simultaneously, search warrants were served at the Cheetahs strip club in San Diego and two strip clubs in Las Vegas, all owned by Michael Galardi. Malone was Galardi's lobbyist.

Since May 16, a grand jury has met behind closed doors 14 times to hear evidence in the case.

The grand jury is investigating whether public officials were bribed with tens of thousands of dollars in attempts to change city laws regulating strip clubs. A grand jury also is meeting in Las Vegas.