PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams will try to prosecute a high-profile legislative sting case — even though, he said, Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s attacks on the prosecutors and chief witness make it “damaged goods.”
In a letter to Kane this week, Williams said he would take the case that she declined to prosecute, in which lawmakers accepted cash from an undercover informant, and all its internal correspondence and emails. The basic case file with audiotapes is the key item…
Yet the likelihood of granting Williams’ full request is zero, said G. Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. That would be handing potential political ammunition to someone with whom Kane has been feuding about the case… (more)
