PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s unprecedented move to expose the swapping of pornographic e-mails on state time has so far cost four men their jobs, put another at risk of being stripped of his state post, and left three others deeply embarrassed…
The story behind the e-mails is far more tangled than what has become public: that eight men, all with ties to [former state prosecutor Frank] Fina, have been named by Kane as sending or receiving X-rated e-mails in a widening scandal that has also touched a state Supreme Court justice.
It involves a secret leak investigation, closed-door legal arguments, a protective order, and allegations of threats – all against a backdrop of a two-year battle between Kane and Fina that has become deeply personal, if not ugly… (more)
