Pennsylvania top prosecutor says charges tied to porn emails

Source: AP

By PETER JACKSON

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's attorney general said Wednesday that criminal charges threatening to end her career were filed as part of an effort by state prosecutors and judges to conceal pornographic and racially insensitive emails they circulated with one another.

"I am innocent of any wrongdoing," Kathleen Kane said in her first public comments on the case. "I neither conspired with anyone nor did I ask or direct anyone to do anything improper or unlawful."

Kane, 49, was charged last week with leaking grand jury information to a newspaper reporter as payback to a former state prosecutor and then lying about it under oath.

Kane called the grand jury investigation and charges against her a "stealth political weapon" to discredit her after her office uncovered pornographic and explicit videos, images and jokes in hundreds of emails while examining how state prosecutors under her predecessors handled the child sex abuse case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Kane said Wednesday that criminal charges against her are part of an effort by state prosecutors and judges to conceal pornographic and racially insensitive emails they circulated with one another. Kane is charged with leaking grand jury information to a newspaper reporter as payback to a former state prosecutor and then lying about it under oath.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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