The "sources" for the "Kane under Federal Investigation" stuff:
I'll attach the full article below....but here is the synopsis:
The sources for the story regarding Kane are:
1 - "Sources inside the Philadelphia DA office" aka Seth Williams and Frank Fina
Really?
and
2 - Leaks from the Philadelphia GJ (you couldn't make this shit up if you tried) that was empaneled to investigate the "Bribery Case" that Kane dropped. Empaneled by? You know who.....our boy Seth.
LMAO
Full story:
"Embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is said to be the focus of inquiries in multiple investigations at both the federal and state level in addition to the indictment she's facing in Montgomery County, according to confidential sources.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there appears to be an active FBI investigation asking questions about Kane as well as a Philadelphia grand jury looking into her and her office.
According to one knowledgeable source, at least one former employee of the Attorney General's Office has been interviewed by FBI agents in recent weeks. The source said one of the agents was from the anti-corruption unit.
The Philadelphia grand jury is said to be the same one that took over a political bribery investigation that Kane decided to shut down.
Both inquiries are said to be independent of the investigation Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman is leading into alleged grand-jury leaks. Kane was charged by Ferman with leaking grand jury information and then lying about it.
At her press conference announcing the indictment, Ferman did thank federal authorities as well as the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Chuck Ardo, Kane's spokesman, said he knows nothing about any federal investigation into Kane or her office, nor about the Philadelphia grand jury.
Kane's attorney, Gerald L. Shargel of Winston & Strawn, said he was "not aware of any FBI interest," and that he is focusing on the case against Kane pending in Montgomery County.
Cameron Kline, a spokesman for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, said, "I cannot comment on any current, past or ongoing or previous grand jury matters."
The Legal reported Aug. 11 that federal authorities shared information with Ferman's office and that the material went to Kane's veracity and truthfulness.
A knowledgeable source said that information was spillover from two active federal investigations, one involving political consultant Michael Fleck and the other involving former Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord.
Those investigations, sources said, involve the U.S. attorney's offices from both the Eastern and Middle districts of Pennsylvania.
According to sources, those investigations are focused on campaign contributions and whether there was a quid pro quo for government work in exchange for political contributions or whether vendors were pressured to contribute to campaigns. Those investigations are also said to involve looking at "bundlers," those who organize and collect campaign contributions for candidates.
One figure in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission pay-to-play investigation handled by Kane's office has been named in a subpoena in the federal investigation tied to Fleck.
According to the Allentown Morning Call, Matthew McTish, a principal at the Allentown engineering firm McTish, Kunkel & Associates, testified in 2013 in the turnpike case that he gave a $4,000 travel voucher to turnpike official George Hatalowich.
When Hatalowich pleaded guilty to one count of felony conflict of interest, his statement in court mentioned McTish's firm.
"While the chief operating officer of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), I engaged in conduct that constituted a conflict of interest, to wit, I accepted free hospitality and gifts from agents of engineering firm McTish, Kunkel & Associates Inc. (McTish), when I took official actions to influence the award of PTC contracts to McTish," Hatalowich's statement read.
McTish was never charged with any wrongdoing in the turnpike case.
A copy of a July 2 subpoena asking for records from Allentown City Hall names McTish and his firm.
A call to a lawyer believed to be representing McTish was not returned. Neither was a call to McCord's attorney, Robert Welsh of Welsh & Recker.
Fleck's lawyer, Philip Lauer of Lauer & Fulmer in Easton, declined to comment.
When she announced the charges against Kane, Ferman mentioned federal involvement. She thanked "our federal counterparts" for their assistance in the investigation, and acknowledged that her office "did have discussions" with federal investigators about the case. But she did not answer a question on whether any material from her office's investigation had been passed to federal investigators.
Ferman charged Kane on Aug. 6 with obstructing administration of law or other governmental function, official oppression, criminal conspiracy, perjury and false swearing, according to charging documents.
Charging documents said Kane leaked the confidential investigative information and secret grand-jury materials to political operatives in order to embarrass former state prosecutors who she believed had made her look bad. The documents said Kane believed they had been involved with leaking information that appeared in a Philadelphia Inquirer article that alleged Kane was responsible for not prosecuting individuals who were caught in a political bribery sting.
Ferman also announced a contempt charge against Patrick Reese, a Kane staffer and confidant, and said the investigation is ongoing and more charges may come.
Kane publicly responded to the charges last week, at an event where she read a prepared statement. She said she was innocent, but she spent few words specifically on the charges against her. Instead, she said, the charges were the result of attempts to keep concealed a chain of pornographic and otherwise offensive emails between OAG employees and state officials that Kane found during an investigation.
In her statement, Kane said a grand jury protective order is keeping her from releasing the emails, and she called on Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter to allow the release. She said the story of the charges against her has been centered around her conflict with another prosecutor, but that "story is as incomplete as it is inaccurate."
Carpenter has since issued a statement that said the emails in question were not introduced into evidence before the 35th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury."
I'll attach the full article below....but here is the synopsis:
The sources for the story regarding Kane are:
1 - "Sources inside the Philadelphia DA office" aka Seth Williams and Frank Fina
Really?
and
2 - Leaks from the Philadelphia GJ (you couldn't make this shit up if you tried) that was empaneled to investigate the "Bribery Case" that Kane dropped. Empaneled by? You know who.....our boy Seth.
LMAO
Full story:
"Embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is said to be the focus of inquiries in multiple investigations at both the federal and state level in addition to the indictment she's facing in Montgomery County, according to confidential sources.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there appears to be an active FBI investigation asking questions about Kane as well as a Philadelphia grand jury looking into her and her office.
According to one knowledgeable source, at least one former employee of the Attorney General's Office has been interviewed by FBI agents in recent weeks. The source said one of the agents was from the anti-corruption unit.
The Philadelphia grand jury is said to be the same one that took over a political bribery investigation that Kane decided to shut down.
Both inquiries are said to be independent of the investigation Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman is leading into alleged grand-jury leaks. Kane was charged by Ferman with leaking grand jury information and then lying about it.
At her press conference announcing the indictment, Ferman did thank federal authorities as well as the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Chuck Ardo, Kane's spokesman, said he knows nothing about any federal investigation into Kane or her office, nor about the Philadelphia grand jury.
Kane's attorney, Gerald L. Shargel of Winston & Strawn, said he was "not aware of any FBI interest," and that he is focusing on the case against Kane pending in Montgomery County.
Cameron Kline, a spokesman for the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, said, "I cannot comment on any current, past or ongoing or previous grand jury matters."
The Legal reported Aug. 11 that federal authorities shared information with Ferman's office and that the material went to Kane's veracity and truthfulness.
A knowledgeable source said that information was spillover from two active federal investigations, one involving political consultant Michael Fleck and the other involving former Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord.
Those investigations, sources said, involve the U.S. attorney's offices from both the Eastern and Middle districts of Pennsylvania.
According to sources, those investigations are focused on campaign contributions and whether there was a quid pro quo for government work in exchange for political contributions or whether vendors were pressured to contribute to campaigns. Those investigations are also said to involve looking at "bundlers," those who organize and collect campaign contributions for candidates.
One figure in the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission pay-to-play investigation handled by Kane's office has been named in a subpoena in the federal investigation tied to Fleck.
According to the Allentown Morning Call, Matthew McTish, a principal at the Allentown engineering firm McTish, Kunkel & Associates, testified in 2013 in the turnpike case that he gave a $4,000 travel voucher to turnpike official George Hatalowich.
When Hatalowich pleaded guilty to one count of felony conflict of interest, his statement in court mentioned McTish's firm.
"While the chief operating officer of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), I engaged in conduct that constituted a conflict of interest, to wit, I accepted free hospitality and gifts from agents of engineering firm McTish, Kunkel & Associates Inc. (McTish), when I took official actions to influence the award of PTC contracts to McTish," Hatalowich's statement read.
McTish was never charged with any wrongdoing in the turnpike case.
A copy of a July 2 subpoena asking for records from Allentown City Hall names McTish and his firm.
A call to a lawyer believed to be representing McTish was not returned. Neither was a call to McCord's attorney, Robert Welsh of Welsh & Recker.
Fleck's lawyer, Philip Lauer of Lauer & Fulmer in Easton, declined to comment.
When she announced the charges against Kane, Ferman mentioned federal involvement. She thanked "our federal counterparts" for their assistance in the investigation, and acknowledged that her office "did have discussions" with federal investigators about the case. But she did not answer a question on whether any material from her office's investigation had been passed to federal investigators.
Ferman charged Kane on Aug. 6 with obstructing administration of law or other governmental function, official oppression, criminal conspiracy, perjury and false swearing, according to charging documents.
Charging documents said Kane leaked the confidential investigative information and secret grand-jury materials to political operatives in order to embarrass former state prosecutors who she believed had made her look bad. The documents said Kane believed they had been involved with leaking information that appeared in a Philadelphia Inquirer article that alleged Kane was responsible for not prosecuting individuals who were caught in a political bribery sting.
Ferman also announced a contempt charge against Patrick Reese, a Kane staffer and confidant, and said the investigation is ongoing and more charges may come.
Kane publicly responded to the charges last week, at an event where she read a prepared statement. She said she was innocent, but she spent few words specifically on the charges against her. Instead, she said, the charges were the result of attempts to keep concealed a chain of pornographic and otherwise offensive emails between OAG employees and state officials that Kane found during an investigation.
In her statement, Kane said a grand jury protective order is keeping her from releasing the emails, and she called on Montgomery County Judge William Carpenter to allow the release. She said the story of the charges against her has been centered around her conflict with another prosecutor, but that "story is as incomplete as it is inaccurate."
Carpenter has since issued a statement that said the emails in question were not introduced into evidence before the 35th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury."
