Hell hath no fury like an attorney general facing criminal charges and threatened with removal by the state Legislature. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s once promising political career has gone down in flames and she is determined to take everyone down with her.
The Christian Science Monitor reported that Kane, in a last-ditch political vendetta, released hundreds of sexually explicit emails that had been sent or received by current or former public officials on government accounts.
Several government officials have been linked to the email leak including the state environmental secretary, a state police commissioner, a high-court justice, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, and former top officials in the attorney general’s office.
Kane was a rising star in the Democratic Party and several party officials were pushing her to run against Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), but her star came crashing down in August when she was charged with obstruction, perjury, and other offenses.
As authorities began building a case against her she began releasing chains of emails saying that she was just a victim of the corrupt old-boy law enforcement network.
The Pennsylvania state Senate, controlled by Republicans, is seeking her removal.
