PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …Kane said the sting had been poorly run by former state prosecutor Frank Fina and might have been marred by racial targeting. Fina vehemently rejected that criticism.
Williams spoke out in favor of Fina, whom he had hired as a prosecutor, and, acting on a dare from Kane, resurrected the investigation. He brought corruption charges against six elected officials, five of whom have pleaded guilty or no contest to corruption charges. One defendant has yet to go to trial…
Prosecutors say she unlawfully leaked grand jury material to the Daily News in a bid to embarrass Fina, whom they say she blamed for leaking news of her decision to shutter the sting… (more)
EDITOR: Petulant and petty, yes. But the cause for criminal prosecution when this type of thing is not uncommon in politics… ridiculous. It should have been taken before the bar association and, at worse, Kane should have received a scolding.
From beginning to end, this reeks of political assassination of the first Democrat elected to the position of Pennsylvania Attorney General. The ‘good old boys’ weren’t going to let her launch investigations against them.
