Kane has said that releasing the information is crucial to her defense strategy against charges she leaked investigative information subject to secrecy protections and then lied to a grand jury about it. She has said she did nothing wrong.
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“It’s important to have a broad grasp and understanding of the criminal justice system as a whole”, he said.
Kane’s spokesman says the trip to Haiti was a charity trip paid for by Kane and her aides. “We don’t know who appeared in front of the grand jury and that makes it problematic”, he said.
Wilkes-Barre-based attorney David E. Schwager is among those board members Stilp says may be connected with Kane, as he practices law in several counties in the region.
In charging Kane earlier this month, prosecutors said she had conspired with Peifer and Patrick Reese, the head of her security detail, to spy illegally on her employees.
But Ardo said that did not resolve concerns about the perception of retaliation.
On September 16, Commonwealth Court will hear arguments on the Inquirer’s Right to Know Law request for the emails. The privacy issues could be third parties from the outside who sent or forwarded emails, he said.
“If she were to release some of the emails, it may be perceived as retribution or seeking to embarrass somebody”. “The order permits the “appropriate public disclosure” of the “possibly pornographic images” that Attorney General Kane referenced in her recent public statement”.
A preliminary hearing in the case, filed in Montgomery County, is scheduled for Monday.
The emails Kane released involved officials who worked for former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, a former attorney general.
The activist recently came out of retirement to announce the filing of a pair of complaints calling for the disciplinary board to investigate Kane and her alleged use of state resources in her criminal matter. Some emails had pornographic photos or videos; others were racially or religiously offensive.
To borrow her estranged husband’s trucking motto, “Kane wasn’t able” to do the job she was elected to do from Day 1 and her insane rantings are proof she needs to go now.
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Kane said a protective order issued by Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter, who oversaw the grand jury that investigated her, prevented naming everyone involved in a “filthy email chain”.
