Prosecutors reviewing possible conflicts of interest involving Santa Monica politicians have widened their inquiry to include architecture work at a home belonging to a school board member and a city councilman, a spokeswoman with the district attorney’s office confirmed last week.

Meanwhile, the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission has opened its own investigation into the politicians’ business ties, an FPPC spokesman told The Times.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office first launched its inquiry in November after a Times article detailed how Maria Leon-Vazquez — a board member overseeing Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District — cast several votes approving hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts with her husband’s consulting clients.

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