PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:… For Kane, the game changer was an article in The Inquirer published March 16, 2014, disclosing that the previous year she had secretly shut down a corruption investigation that caught elected officials on tape pocketing cash.
Within days, Kane had hired prominent Philadelphia lawyer Richard A. Sprague to pursue a possible defamation lawsuit…
In response to public-records requests filed by the Associated Press and later by The Inquirer, Kane’s office released 5,000 pages of emails from two of Kane’s personal accounts – one on yahoo.com, the other on aol.com – to staffers, political and media consultants, and others between 2013 and 2015… (more)
EDITOR: We should keep in mind that it was the Inquirer, through its sister Daily News, that outed its source by turning over allegedly leaked information from Kane to the Montgomery County prosecutor.
