LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: Attorney General Kathleen Kane‘s political consultant was caught on an FBI wiretap talking about how she wanted the consultant’s help in passing along documents that later became the subject of a grand jury leak probe, The Morning Call has learned.
The FBI recorded the conversation between Kane’s consultant, Josh Morrow, and an unidentified person during its 2014 extortion investigation of state Treasurer Rob McCord, a source told the newspaper.
The FBI later provided the recording to the Montgomery County district attorney’s office, which has charged Kane with lying about her role in passing along the grand jury documents that were discussed in the call, the source said. The grand jury documents involved were supposed to be kept private. Instead, prosecutors say, they were used by Kane to discredit a rival. County prosecutors gave the recording to Kane’s legal defense team Feb. 5 in preparation for her trial this summer, the source said… (more)
EDITOR: Two observations:
- Big deal. Is there a day that goes by when we don’t read in the New York Times and other reputable media leaked confidential information from source that wants to remain anonymous? In fact, the grand jury investigating Kane leaked like a sieve.
- What twas the FBI doing tapping the phone of the Pennsylvania attorney general? That is a lot scarier than anything they might have learned.
