Others were involved in the emails beyond those who have been publicly disclosed, Kane said.
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She said she believes the criminal case against her is the result of adversaries whose goal is “the death and burial of this email chain and their involvement in it forever”.
Carpenter said he hadn’t had a chance to review the statement Kane made on Wednesday.
Chuck Ardo, a spokesman for the Office of Attorney General, said he did not know how long Reese has been employed by the Office of Attorney General. Her critics worry the charges have damaged the office’s credibility and her legal battle will distract her from the responsibilities of her positon.
She also asked the state’s disciplinary board to halt possible action to take away her law license, which would make her ineligible to hold office. In all, her investigation ended with six firings, two resignations and 23 reprimands including that of State Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery.
Her evil-men-are-out-to-get-me defense ignores the fact she was charged by a woman, Montco D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman, after a lengthy investigation. “Period”.
One of the people calling for Kane to step down is Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.
Kane, the first Democrat elected to the office and the first woman, said she has no plans to quit. Former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham has volunteered to fill in. “What does that have to do with the charges against her?” said Ernie Preate, a Scranton attorney who formerly served as attorney general. He says he did not tell her to not speak to reporters. Kane plans to fight the charges against her. Her driver, Patrick Reese, has also been arraigned on charges he snooped in colleagues’ emails to keep an eye on the direction of the investigation. That package allegedly contained secret grand jury information from the 2009 grand jury investigating J. Whyatt Mondesire.
Reese was allowed to leave court with $5,000 unsecured bail.
Kane will face a preliminary hearing in front of District Judge Kathleen Kelly Rebar on August. 24.
Kane again also addressed those who have called for her to resign, highlighting the numerous successes her office has achieved in the past year. “Nothing new”, Morganelli said. I neither conspired with anyone nor did I ask or direct anyone to do anything improper or unlawful.
The Attorney General denied that the criminal case began with a June Daily News article that suggested Frank Fina fumbled a case involving a Philly civil rights leader.
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Kane said Carpenter’s order is based on a “tortured interpretation” of the state’s grand jury secrecy laws.
