The Inquirer "Story", as written, with commentary inserted:
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As Attorney General Kathleen Kane plotted to leak secret grand jury information [written as if it is a concluded FACT that Kane "plotted to leak secret grand jury information", when all we have to date are allegations initiated by the Scumbags who Kane just outed in the "Porno" scandal. That isn't relevant? Really?] and instructed aides to spy on her employees' emails, prosecutors said, she used personal email accounts to conduct business [Well, first of all, it is entirely NOT inappropriate to use personal e-mail accounts....as clearly evidenced. And yes, Kane most certainly had e-mail accounts monitored. Ya' see, that's kinda' the point to how she discovered all the Fina Boys' porno stash....but it sounds so much more salacious when you say they were "spying". I am sure that is just a random choice of words by Fina....er, uh, I mean the author of the "story"].
Revelations about Kane's use of personal emails led Montgomery County prosecutors to serve search warrants for her Yahoo and AOL email accounts as they built a criminal case against her.
On Monday, Kane was held for trial on charges of leaking confidential information to embarrass a critic and then lying about it under oath.
In documents unsealed Wednesday, investigators said Kane and other staffers frequently used personal email accounts for business. But there was a "a large segment of time" last spring during which few emails were sent or received from her personal accounts on the government servers, prosecutors wrote in an affidavit justifying their request to search her private accounts.
"We believe this lack of recovered electronic communications is simply because . . . they went from one personal email account to another personal email account," the affidavit said.
Chuck Ardo, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said there is no policy restricting use of personal email by employees.
"The attorney general communicates with all kinds of people associated with the office at all hours of the day and night," he said. "So it comes as no surprise that she uses her personal email on occasion."
Investigators learned of Kane's use of private emails when, in reviewing the work emails of others in her office, they saw that she had used her private email account to communicate with some members of her staff.
Kane's use of private email accounts came as prosecutors say she instructed her top aides to spy on the emails of staffers in her office [Oh boy, here we go again..."spying". LOL, would we expect that she should have just posted an announcement in the lunchroom "Everybody who is shooting porno e-mails around the office: Please. let me know so that we can investigate appropriately. Thanks, K"]. She tasked aides to "secretly or surreptitiously [ "Secretly and surreptitiously"? As opposed to how one would normally conduct an investigation....by announcing to everyone ahead of time that they are going to search their offices next Wednesday?] review emails of employees," Adrian King, her former first assistant, testified to a grand jury.
Patrick Reese, chief of Kane's security detail, is charged with contempt of court for searching email servers and accessing private grand jury information.
First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele said Wednesday that he could not comment on whether prosecutors obtained any significant evidence through Kane's emails [In other words....no, there was nothing wrong either with the use the personal e-mail accounts, nor anything "felonious" within them. Just as an aside, we all know Steele is the current "duly elected" leader of the PSU AA....right?].
Kane's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
In making their case to search Kane's email accounts, prosecutors provided examples of her use of personal email.
In one such exchange, Kane received an email on her AOL account from Linda Dale Hoffa, a former top prosecutor in her office. Hoffa wrote that she had received a call from First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lou Lappen, expressing federal prosecutors' "displeasure" with Kane's statements about a criminal investigation she had closed without filing charges [What a bunch of meaningless BS. The point is that the Feds never did pursue the case. OK, they maybe didn't like that Kane worded the situation as "the Feds didn't find the case worthy of prosecution"....but the fact is they DIDN'T prosecute, so at best it's a matter of parsing words. The fact that this was discussed via e-mails between Kane and a staffer is supposed to imply "what" exactly?].
The email came the day after The Inquirer published an article revealing that Kane had shut down an undercover sting investigation that had caught several Philadelphia Democrats on tape accepting money or jewelry from a lobbyist.
In defending her decision to close the case, Kane told reporters that federal authorities had reviewed the case and found it to be without merit.
"They would like us to stop making this representation because we really don't know what their thinking was on this matter," Hoffa wrote in a March 17, 2014 email to Kane.
Despite that, Kane continued to say publicly that federal authorities had found the sting case unworthy of prosecution.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams later resurrected the case and brought corruption charges against six former or current Democratic officials. Four have pleaded guilty. Charges are pending against the other two
[THIS IS THE REAL DOOZY...and shows just what a bag of propaganda the whole "story" is. Buckle up:
Williams "resurrected the case? Really? Here is a summary from the Inquirer its-own-self:
http://articles.philly.com/2014-12-05/news/56761342_1_judges-philadelphia-traffic-court-satisfaction
This "slam dunk" BRIBERY sting, that Fina and Williams crowed so much about, led to the following:
A plea from a traffic court Judge to a "conflict of interest"....with no penalty, no jail time...and consideration for sentence reduction on the Judge's unrelated Federal Conviction for Perjury. So, they bought a plea to "conflict of interest" in exchange for recommendation of a lesser sentence in an unrelated Federal conviction. A couple of other folks paid fines of a couple thousand dollars each for "conflict of interest" (as a nuisance fee in exchange for having the whole deal dropped)....no jail time. NO ONE was convicted of BRIBERY in this "slam dunk" case.....these guys have a history of referring to cases as slam dunks - even when they never get a conviction, or even go to trial LOL. The total "penalties" were about what you'd expect to pay for a couple large speeding tickets.
And yet, Fina, Williams, AND the Inquirer (which are really kind of one and the same) continue to crow about this brilliant prosecution of the BRIBERY sting] .
POSTED IN 2 SEGMENTS DUE TO LENGTH - Part 1
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As Attorney General Kathleen Kane plotted to leak secret grand jury information [written as if it is a concluded FACT that Kane "plotted to leak secret grand jury information", when all we have to date are allegations initiated by the Scumbags who Kane just outed in the "Porno" scandal. That isn't relevant? Really?] and instructed aides to spy on her employees' emails, prosecutors said, she used personal email accounts to conduct business [Well, first of all, it is entirely NOT inappropriate to use personal e-mail accounts....as clearly evidenced. And yes, Kane most certainly had e-mail accounts monitored. Ya' see, that's kinda' the point to how she discovered all the Fina Boys' porno stash....but it sounds so much more salacious when you say they were "spying". I am sure that is just a random choice of words by Fina....er, uh, I mean the author of the "story"].
Revelations about Kane's use of personal emails led Montgomery County prosecutors to serve search warrants for her Yahoo and AOL email accounts as they built a criminal case against her.
On Monday, Kane was held for trial on charges of leaking confidential information to embarrass a critic and then lying about it under oath.
In documents unsealed Wednesday, investigators said Kane and other staffers frequently used personal email accounts for business. But there was a "a large segment of time" last spring during which few emails were sent or received from her personal accounts on the government servers, prosecutors wrote in an affidavit justifying their request to search her private accounts.
"We believe this lack of recovered electronic communications is simply because . . . they went from one personal email account to another personal email account," the affidavit said.
Chuck Ardo, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said there is no policy restricting use of personal email by employees.
"The attorney general communicates with all kinds of people associated with the office at all hours of the day and night," he said. "So it comes as no surprise that she uses her personal email on occasion."
Investigators learned of Kane's use of private emails when, in reviewing the work emails of others in her office, they saw that she had used her private email account to communicate with some members of her staff.
Kane's use of private email accounts came as prosecutors say she instructed her top aides to spy on the emails of staffers in her office [Oh boy, here we go again..."spying". LOL, would we expect that she should have just posted an announcement in the lunchroom "Everybody who is shooting porno e-mails around the office: Please. let me know so that we can investigate appropriately. Thanks, K"]. She tasked aides to "secretly or surreptitiously [ "Secretly and surreptitiously"? As opposed to how one would normally conduct an investigation....by announcing to everyone ahead of time that they are going to search their offices next Wednesday?] review emails of employees," Adrian King, her former first assistant, testified to a grand jury.
Patrick Reese, chief of Kane's security detail, is charged with contempt of court for searching email servers and accessing private grand jury information.
First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele said Wednesday that he could not comment on whether prosecutors obtained any significant evidence through Kane's emails [In other words....no, there was nothing wrong either with the use the personal e-mail accounts, nor anything "felonious" within them. Just as an aside, we all know Steele is the current "duly elected" leader of the PSU AA....right?].
Kane's lawyer, Gerald Shargel, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
In making their case to search Kane's email accounts, prosecutors provided examples of her use of personal email.
In one such exchange, Kane received an email on her AOL account from Linda Dale Hoffa, a former top prosecutor in her office. Hoffa wrote that she had received a call from First Assistant U.S. Attorney Lou Lappen, expressing federal prosecutors' "displeasure" with Kane's statements about a criminal investigation she had closed without filing charges [What a bunch of meaningless BS. The point is that the Feds never did pursue the case. OK, they maybe didn't like that Kane worded the situation as "the Feds didn't find the case worthy of prosecution"....but the fact is they DIDN'T prosecute, so at best it's a matter of parsing words. The fact that this was discussed via e-mails between Kane and a staffer is supposed to imply "what" exactly?].
The email came the day after The Inquirer published an article revealing that Kane had shut down an undercover sting investigation that had caught several Philadelphia Democrats on tape accepting money or jewelry from a lobbyist.
In defending her decision to close the case, Kane told reporters that federal authorities had reviewed the case and found it to be without merit.
"They would like us to stop making this representation because we really don't know what their thinking was on this matter," Hoffa wrote in a March 17, 2014 email to Kane.
Despite that, Kane continued to say publicly that federal authorities had found the sting case unworthy of prosecution.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams later resurrected the case and brought corruption charges against six former or current Democratic officials. Four have pleaded guilty. Charges are pending against the other two
[THIS IS THE REAL DOOZY...and shows just what a bag of propaganda the whole "story" is. Buckle up:
Williams "resurrected the case? Really? Here is a summary from the Inquirer its-own-self:
http://articles.philly.com/2014-12-05/news/56761342_1_judges-philadelphia-traffic-court-satisfaction
This "slam dunk" BRIBERY sting, that Fina and Williams crowed so much about, led to the following:
A plea from a traffic court Judge to a "conflict of interest"....with no penalty, no jail time...and consideration for sentence reduction on the Judge's unrelated Federal Conviction for Perjury. So, they bought a plea to "conflict of interest" in exchange for recommendation of a lesser sentence in an unrelated Federal conviction. A couple of other folks paid fines of a couple thousand dollars each for "conflict of interest" (as a nuisance fee in exchange for having the whole deal dropped)....no jail time. NO ONE was convicted of BRIBERY in this "slam dunk" case.....these guys have a history of referring to cases as slam dunks - even when they never get a conviction, or even go to trial LOL. The total "penalties" were about what you'd expect to pay for a couple large speeding tickets.
And yet, Fina, Williams, AND the Inquirer (which are really kind of one and the same) continue to crow about this brilliant prosecution of the BRIBERY sting] .
