Did Attorney General Kane violate ethics law by naming sister to head child predator unit?

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has gone in-house – and inside the family – to find a leader for the state’s effort to prosecute online child predators…

But the promotion may run afoul of Pennsylvania’s Ethics Law because because her sister, Ellen Granahan, received a significant raise…

Ellen Granahan, like Kane a former Lackawanna County assistant district attorney, was hired to then-Attorney General Tom Corbett’s staff in 2008. In April, she was tapped to head the office’s Child Predator Unit.… (more)

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