PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: District Attorney Seth Williams yesterday finally took action against three prosecutors at the center of the so-called Porngate scandal, reassigning them to lower-profile units amid repeated calls for their termination.
Because, sometimes, “sensitivity training” just isn’t enough.
Frank Fina, once a star public-corruption prosecutor, will move from the special-investigations unit to the civil-litigation unit.
His colleague Marc Costanzo will be transferred from special investigations to appeals, and Patrick Blessington will be transferred from insurance fraud to the post-conviction-relief-act unit… (more)
EDITOR: These are the guys, including the Daily News, who launched the attacks against Attorney General Kathleen Kane. To the extent that she was involved in sharing grand jury information with the craven Daily News reporters, it was to explain her sound reasons for not prosecuting certain African American politicians from Philadelphia.
As has recently been made public, the investigation of the Philadelphians had been prejudiced by racism and politics. Instead of treating information in confidence as is the journalist code of ethics, the Daily News triggered the prosecution of Kane.
