Unfortunately for them, the old boys on the court dawdled, fooled around for months, and wasted too much time (which after all was their problem when they were trading the porno emails). Hey, the last thing they wanted to do was appoint a special prosecutor to look into their own porno emails, right?

At 4:01 p.m. Thursday, May 21, 2009, Fina sent an email to state special agents Anthony Fiore and Michael Cranga containing four images of women engaged in sex acts on men, depicted in mock motivational posters. The pornographic photos have slogans including: “WILLINGNESS: Bend over backwards to do an exceptional job,” “DEVOTION: Making your boss happy is your only job” and “PERFORMANCE: Monthly performance evaluations are mandatory for all secretarial staff.”

At 4:01 p.m. Thursday, May 21, 2009, Fina sent an email to state special agents Anthony Fiore and Michael Cranga containing four images of women engaged in sex acts on men, depicted in mock motivational posters. The pornographic photos have slogans including: “WILLINGNESS: Bend over backwards to do an exceptional job,” “DEVOTION: Making your boss happy is your only job” and “PERFORMANCE: Monthly performance evaluations are mandatory for all secretarial staff.”

LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: An assistant Allentown solicitor was carrying out instructions of an official matching Mayor Ed Pawlowski’s description when he conspired to rescore a city contract in favor of a mayoral campaign donor, according to court documents released Monday when Dale Wiles pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge. The charge, conspiracy to […]

PENNLIVE.COM: Attorney General Kathleen Kane will take the stage at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center Tuesday to announce a team of special prosecutors to lead the ‘Porngate’ investigation. Last week, in her response to news that theSenate removal process would move forward, Kane announced plans to “go through every public email account trafficking this filth and […]

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NEWSLANC: On the outskirts of the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, for example, one Ukrainian special forces unit is using U.S.-supplied Humvees dating from the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on serial numbers on the vehicles. Three of the Humvees had plastic doors and windows — barely any protection at all. The tires on one […]

WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: …One of the tasks of political analysis is to make sense of conflicting information, and a new book by Stanley Greenberg, who was a political scientist before he became a Democratic pollster, does not shy away from the messiness of our social and electoral landscape. My Dickensian “best of times, worst of […]

WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: …One of the tasks of political analysis is to make sense of conflicting information, and a new book by Stanley Greenberg, who was a political scientist before he became a Democratic pollster, does not shy away from the messiness of our social and electoral landscape. My Dickensian “best of times, worst of […]

The GOP did not re-elect Tom Corbett last year, but the second best outcome for that party may have been the election of Wolf. Using his own money, Wolf easily outdistanced three primary competitors, all with more political experience and endorsements.

If the Pennsylvania Senate succeeds in forcing Attorney General Kathleen Kane from office by distorting the meaning of a long dormant 19th Century law, the entire concept of three co-equal bodies – legislative, executive and judicial – will have been replaced by the ability of the Senate alone to discharge elected public officials at its whim and pleasure.

PENNLIVE.COM: Amid the most imminent threat to her office yet, Attorney General Kathleen Kane vowed to redouble her efforts to root out pornographic and otherwise offensive emails exchanged by state officials. Pennsylvania’s top law enforcement officer plans to announce a team of special prosecutors next week who will “go through every public email account trafficking […]