PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE COLUMN: …From the perspective of someone who covered it closely, all I can offer is theories:
• This wasn’t Kane’s case. The probe was initiated by former Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett, elected governor in 2010 and defeated for re-election in November. There was bad blood between Kane and former Chief Deputy Attorney General Frank Fina, who put the case together.
• The departure of senior seasoned criminal prosecutors like Fina who wanted no part of working for Kane, whom they considered inexperienced and political — despite her campaign theme that she was a “prosecutor not a politician.”
• In the end, Kane didn’t want to send other Democrats to prison. Was she under any pressure to let them walk, especially Mellow, from her hometown?… (more)
