Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she’s said all that her lawyers will allow her to about pending criminal charges that threaten to end her career. On Wednesday, Kane said during the course of the investigation against her she has been able to maintain her office and continue to make Pennsylvania a safe place.
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In her remarks, Kane says she has no plans to leave office.
So when she announced during her long investigation of the Jerry Sandusky case that all agency emails were being reviewed, the filth-mongers chose to get her.
She added, “For only a grand jury protective order stands in the way of releasing their names and their emails to the public”.
Kane did not discuss the specific allegations.
In a statement Wednesday in which she alleged a scheme to punish her, Kane told reporters: “My defense will not be that I am the victim of some old-boys’ network”.
Several veteran defense attorneys questioned Kane’s logic.
“At the same time she has her own problems”. “The charges she is facing have to do with her allegedly lying to the grand jury”. He pleaded not guilty.
Were she to resign, and then be vindicated, she would still have lost her position as attorney general, he said. “I neither conspired with anyone or directed anyone to do anything illegal or unlawful”.
Days later, prosecutors said, Reese was scouring the archival system for emails referencing the grand jury investigation. Kane declined to press charges against the legislators.
The Inquirer story revealed she had secretly shut down an undercover videotape investigation of Democratic officials from Philadelphia seen pocketing bribes.
Kane did not take any questions after reading her prepared statement. Literally within days of the Moulton announcement, newspaper stories appeared questioning my decision on a case which was thought to embarrass and intimidate me.
The trail of emails has been hidden by a veil of grand jury secrecy, she contended.
The attorney general had portrayed herself as a political target for taking on a corrupt, old-boy law enforcement network and exposing state employees who exchanged pornographic emails. One can step down for the good of the office, she said.
Instead, she said, the charges began with the discovery of a group of state prosecutors and judges sharing “pornographic, racially offensive and religiously offensive emails” on government computers and while they were on government time. She contended that her adversaries are seeking “the burial of this email chain and their involvement in it forever”. Without it, she can not be attorney general. “But in the meantime, I am calling on her to step aside”.
Attempts to reach Carpenter for comment Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Kane “has done some excellent things for our state”, and deserves her day in court, but as attorney general, she has duties to the voters, the governor and the office itself, Lyall said.
“Everything they do is confidential,” said court spokesman James Koval.
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“Only the Lord knows how this will turn out”. It did not even begin when i was sworn in as Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
