“But that action should be fair, equitable and commensurate with their activity”, said the governor.
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Acting Attorney General Bruce Castor Jr. sent an email to the agency’s roughly 800 employees Thursday that said some of them were notified that their names may be included in the report.
Castor, a Republican, has been running the office since Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane resigned August 17, two days after she was convicted of perjury and other offenses.
A lot of state workers are presumably anxious about the release of the report.
The law firm provides an email address to send responses by Monday.
Some employees in the Attorney General’s office have been punished in the past for their involvement in the scandal.
“When there is more to report, I will let you know”, Castor said.
He also objected to indications that the report’s appendix lumps people together in one class whether they sent one email or 49.
Castor’s authority to release the Gansler report may be short-lived.
He would serve until January after a new Attorney General is elected. The office’s First Deputy, Castor took over at the helm last week in the wake of Kane’s resignation on August 17, just two days after she was criminally convicted for leaking secret grand jury information and then lying about it in an unsuccessful attempt to cover up her illegal activities.
The emails were found on the servers of the attorney general’s office and had been circulated among some of the office’s employees and others inside and outside of state government.
Beemer was First Assistant under Kane until he was named Inspector General in the governor’s office earlier this year.
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A separate portion of Gansler’s review, a look for one-sided, out-of-court communications between prosecutors and judges that could have affected the outcome of cases, is still in progress.
