PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: ….[ County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman [ is conducting a criminal investigation into whether Kane leaked grand jury material to a Philadelphia newspaper based on a statewide grand jury report. Kane has denied any wrongdoing. The statewide grand jury recommended charges including perjury, obstruction of justice and official oppression.
The second legal matter is a hearing that Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter ordered Friday into whether Kane violated a protective order for a top deputy she fired Wednesday. The protective order issued by Carpenter was intended to protect grand jury witnesses from the attorney general’s office from retaliation, according to a copy of the order he released.
Kane fired former Chief Deputy James Barker as part of a restructuring of the criminal division, her office said, denying any retaliatory action. Barker says he testified before the statewide grand jury. Kane’s office said Barker, who headed the grand jury unit and criminal appeals division, was responsible for leaks from an unspecified grand jury. Barker says he did nothing wrong… (more)
EDITOR: Kane appears besieged from within and without. All of this results from charges that are petty if not frivilous.
So pretty clever of Corbett to get all of his hacks in the AG office to testify in front of a kangaroo grand jury so they couldn’t be fired for being what they are incompetent political flacks still taking orders from Corbett.
The only mistake I think Kane ever made was not firing the whole lot of them, after all employment in the U.S. is “at will.” She then should have seated her own grand jury and got all of those GOP clowns running this state into the ground indicted on corruption charges.
What’s coming next is the Feds doing just that and when it does Fina and his minions will have more to worry about than Kane finding their porno stashes.