Judge implies Kane can release porn emails
August 14, 2015
The judge supervising the grand jury that investigated state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane said Thursday she hasn’t officially asked him to allow her to release the offensive emails she claims exist, so he can’t act to order their release.
Judge William R. Carpenter also implied she doesn’t need his permission to release the pornographic and racially and religiously offensive emails she claims are at the root of her troubles. The emails were never introduced before his grand jury in Montgomery County, he said.
Other than thanking grand jury members for their hard work, Judge Carpenter said nothing else in a statement released Thursday about the criminally charged attorney general’s request.
Chuck Ardo, Kane’s spokeswoman, said Kane’s lawyers will file a request next week asking Judge Carpenter to lift an order she claims blocks the release of the emails. He said the office would have no further comment.
Kane of Waverly Township is accused of leaking secret information from an earlier grand jury to a Philadelphia newspaper to embarrass a former prosecutor she thought did the same to her and then lying about it to Judge Carpenter’s grand jury. She told reporters Wednesday her troubles started when she made it known her office had the technology to trace every email in former attorney general Tom Corbett’s administration, her predecessor.
State prosecutors and judges started investigating her because she found their “pornographic, racially offensive and religiously offensive emails” on attorney general’s office computers and they want to stop her from releasing them, she said.
She singled out Judge Carpenter, saying he and other judges and prosecutors had, “wittingly or unwittingly,” kept the emails secret. She said Judge Carpenter “to this day prevents the complete public dissemination of these emails under a tortured interpretation of our state’s grand jury secrecy law.”
The judge referred his grand jury’s findings to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, who last week charged Kane with obstructing the administration of law, official oppression, false swearing and perjury.
Kane says she’s innocent and the release of the emails is essential to her defense.
http://citizensvoice.com/news/judge-implies-kane-can-release-porn-emails-1.1926731#
August 14, 2015
The judge supervising the grand jury that investigated state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane said Thursday she hasn’t officially asked him to allow her to release the offensive emails she claims exist, so he can’t act to order their release.
Judge William R. Carpenter also implied she doesn’t need his permission to release the pornographic and racially and religiously offensive emails she claims are at the root of her troubles. The emails were never introduced before his grand jury in Montgomery County, he said.
Other than thanking grand jury members for their hard work, Judge Carpenter said nothing else in a statement released Thursday about the criminally charged attorney general’s request.
Chuck Ardo, Kane’s spokeswoman, said Kane’s lawyers will file a request next week asking Judge Carpenter to lift an order she claims blocks the release of the emails. He said the office would have no further comment.
Kane of Waverly Township is accused of leaking secret information from an earlier grand jury to a Philadelphia newspaper to embarrass a former prosecutor she thought did the same to her and then lying about it to Judge Carpenter’s grand jury. She told reporters Wednesday her troubles started when she made it known her office had the technology to trace every email in former attorney general Tom Corbett’s administration, her predecessor.
State prosecutors and judges started investigating her because she found their “pornographic, racially offensive and religiously offensive emails” on attorney general’s office computers and they want to stop her from releasing them, she said.
She singled out Judge Carpenter, saying he and other judges and prosecutors had, “wittingly or unwittingly,” kept the emails secret. She said Judge Carpenter “to this day prevents the complete public dissemination of these emails under a tortured interpretation of our state’s grand jury secrecy law.”
The judge referred his grand jury’s findings to Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, who last week charged Kane with obstructing the administration of law, official oppression, false swearing and perjury.
Kane says she’s innocent and the release of the emails is essential to her defense.
http://citizensvoice.com/news/judge-implies-kane-can-release-porn-emails-1.1926731#
