PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams on Friday told Attorney General Kathleen Kane that he cannot promise he won’t look into her handling of a legislative sting case as a condition of getting her to give him the case file.
“You state you will grant me access only if I am able to satisfy you that I will not engage in any evaluation of your actions in reviewing this investigation. You have no authority under the law to establish any such pre-condition,” Williams wrote in a letter to Kane, a copy of which the Tribune-Review obtained…
“Despite all your statements to the contrary, you have now declared that you are not willing to send me the case materials you had so strenuously invited me to review,” said Williams. “You have offered a variety of rationales for this refusal. Unfortunately these rationales are unsound.” … (more)
This is an unmitigated disaster for Ms. Kane. It also raises the veracity of the Kane / Moulton investigation of the Sandusky / Corbett accusations. I’m sure Mr. Corbett will not let this go unmentioned before November.